Just a little feedback on macbook pro for anyone wondering

[Combat squirrel]

As title, I just thought id give some feedback on my unibody macbook pro 15", its the 2.4 model, 9600gt, 4gb ram.

I use OSX for everything bar gaming, and vista 64bit for games, now the reason im writing this is im surprised how well it runs games, iv recently been playing (output to a dell 2407 at 1920x1200):

COH
Supreme Commander
HL2
DOW

And all ran just fine, not on ultra settings like, but about 75% high settings, and the rest medium and just for a laugh I ran crysis on it at 1650x1440 (whatever that res it), all medium settings, blimey...its really playable.

Now I realise this is OCUK and most are not happy unless they have triple figure frame rates, but me, I just want it to be playable (35+ fps) for the occasional blast or strategy game when it takes my fancy, more recently as its been 8 months since iv had a computer that will run games.

But just incase everyones wondering, yes you can play all the latest games happily on this laptop without bother, when I say play games, I mean actually playing them and having fun as opposed to one eye on the game one on the fps counter

Whats you guys experience with macs and gaming ?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I used to use my Mac Pro for gaming

Not ideal, but it never skipped a beat and Vista ran amazing on it (gulp!)

 

[ringo747]

I used to use my Mac Pro for gaming

Not ideal, but it never skipped a beat and Vista ran amazing on it (gulp!)

Was thinking of getting a mac pro for quite some time now. I only play Flight Simulator and I guess the mac pro would run it sweetly. I take it a mac pro running vista should eat any game you throw at it?

 

[Feek]

I only play Flight Simulator and I guess the mac pro would run it sweetly.

This is something I still have to try. I'm sort of waiting for the 4870 to become available for the 2008 Mac Pro and once I've got that I'll probably install FS into my Vista partition.

Well, I say I will but I boot to Windows so rarely that I may not bother, but MSFS is about the only program I miss on my Mac.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Was thinking of getting a mac pro for quite some time now. I only play Flight Simulator and I guess the mac pro would run it sweetly. I take it a mac pro running vista should eat any game you throw at it?

Yes, it's depends on the graphics GPU though really.

 

[FreeStream]

This is something I still have to try. I'm sort of waiting for the 4870 to become available for the 2008 Mac Pro and once I've got that I'll probably install FS into my Vista partition.

Well, I say I will but I boot to Windows so rarely that I may not bother, but MSFS is about the only program I miss on my Mac.

It runs superbly!

Clocked to 840/1100

 

[ringo747]

I wonder are you guys referring to FSX or the older FS9 which even my old pc can run smoothly? I would probably get the quad core mac pro with the 4870 card in it.

 

[FreeStream]

I wonder are you guys referring to FSX or the older FS9 which even my old pc can run smoothly? I would probably get the quad core mac pro with the 4870 card in it.

Im talking about FS-X

 

[ScarySquirrel]

I don't mean to troll but how do you play FPS with only one mouse button? What do you use to go into iron sights/zoom mode?

 

[FreeStream]

Desktops have two mouse buttons and god why would you play FPS with a touchpad!?

 

[ringo747]

Im talking about FS-X

Good to hear. People say don't buy a mac pro for gaming though. I take it they mean using osx as a gaming platform? I can't see why you wouldn't use a mac pro running windows for games. Makes sense to me.

 

[Combat squirrel]

I don't mean to troll but how do you play FPS with only one mouse button? What do you use to go into iron sights/zoom mode?

Lol! Well I obviously plug laptop Into external monitor and use my external logitech mouse. Job done.

 

[Logsi]

I don't mean to troll but how do you play FPS with only one mouse button? What do you use to go into iron sights/zoom mode?

If your'e referring to playing CoD with a mighty mouse then it's impossible to click both mouse buttons in at the same time on the mighty mouse. You can however click the right click and make it stay in iron sights (think there is an option to do that) and then left click to fire away.

Dunno why anyone would use a mighty mouse for games though. Remember you aren't locked down to which mouse you use with a Mac. I have an MX Revolution here!

THE MIGHTY MOUSE HAS 4 BUTTONS!!!! (Just thought i'd clear that up!) Even though it looks like it has one button it does have, left click, right click, side clicks, and ball click!

 

[ScarySquirrel]

Oh, I see. My lack of Mac Hardware has shone through in my last post

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Logsi]

Oh, I see. My lack of Mac Hardware has shone through in my last post

Thanks for clearing that up.

No problem dude!

The "only one button" thing comes up so many times!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Techincally it only has 1 button, as it can only be pressed 1 way or the other.

If you want to hold left-click and press a right click, you're stuffed.

 

[SimonR]

I played EQ2 quite happily on my MBP and BF2 without a hitch, though most of my gaming is on my XBOX and Wii these days

 

[NickK]

I think the most obscene example of MBP doing it stuff was yesterday.. I had:

1. Mac OS running safari, rapid weaver and coda
2. Windows XP running MS Office (mail, word)
3. Redhat AS 4u6 64bit, running MySQL, Netbeans, SMSC (yes a full mobile network SMSC sitting on Oracle, SUA stack etc)
4. kubuntu 32bit running apache, mysql etc

Ahh- I keep amazing people with it.. not that it's specifically MBP-only but Parallels 4 rocks! (spent today dealing with VMware.. not as good in terms of getting things done but still works none-the-less).