- #MAC GAMES FOR INTEL HD 3000 GRAPHICS 2017 UPGRADE#
- #MAC GAMES FOR INTEL HD 3000 GRAPHICS 2017 FULL#
Obviously the screen size is less than ideal, and I have no idea how other more GPU-driven games would play - WoW is from 2004, after all. I said "science."Īnyway, it's highly playable on the MBA. My boss just asked what all the elves on my screen were. With the new one, I manage to get great framerates (50-60, sometimes as low as 30 in raids) if I keep most settings fairly low. WoW wasn't really playable on it (fps in cities was ~15, jerky movement). I can say that the experience was far, far better than with the maxed 2010 MBA. Raided, quested - no lagging even though I also had iTunes and Dreamweaver open in the background.īut that's WoW, which is a very processor and HD-driven game. I notice the machine gets hot, but it seems less oppressive than my 15 inch early 2011 MBP or my windows gaming laptops before that.Īctually, I had quit WoW for ages before getting this machine on Thursday and putting WoW on it to "see if it works on the new MBA." My 15" pro can run pretty high end stuff just fine with the AMD 6750 GPU in it, but the noise is quite loud
#MAC GAMES FOR INTEL HD 3000 GRAPHICS 2017 FULL#
Obviously you won't be running the very latest stuff in full detail on it, but for games a couple of years old it should be fine on lower detail settings.īear in mind - whichever laptop you buy, running games on it WILL make the fans spin up and make a fair amount of fan noise. The Air was just a bit of a long term test to see if he could live with a Mac rather than Windows.
#MAC GAMES FOR INTEL HD 3000 GRAPHICS 2017 UPGRADE#
He didn't upgrade because of lack of performance - he really loved the air, just needed more RAM than 4gig.
You can spec the airs with a Core i7, and the i5s are standard.Ī friend had a 2011 13" air for a bit (his first mac, before stepping up to a 15" pro for more RAM for Vmware) and he could run Half Life 2 and a few other common LAN shooters just fine on it. To give you an idea of just how much faster the new CPUs are - a Core i3 (dual core) has comparable performance to a Core 2 Quad at the same clock speed. Hence, any game or application that is any way CPU bound will be much faster on a 2011.Įspecially so in the 11" models, where the fastest 2010 CPU is a 1.6 Core2 Duo. However, sandy bridge core I series absolutely DESTROYS the Core2 Duo in the 2010 Airs. I think the HD3000 got a bad rep because it wasn't much of an improvement, not because it's totally crap. The HD3000 is also faster on a few things as well. In some things the 320m is marginally faster, but its very very close. The order of GPU performance for the GPUs you mention goes something like this:ĩ400m -> -> (i.e., significant gap) -> -> HD3000 -> 320mīoth the newer GPUs are significantly faster than your 9400m. The HD3000 GPU has had a lot of unjustified bad rap around here (before it was released).
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