I’m very conflicted about this new machine. I buy a maxed out mac each time because it’s my primary machine and I want it to do anything I throw at it even if I mostly don’t use all its power. And I do game on my computer; I currently have a 2019 intel and I just pop over to windows when I want to play something that doesn’t work on macOS.
I’m hoping that crossover and VMware/parallels will be enough for now until windows for arm comes out but I’m also wondering if I should just cancel the order and get a gaming pc. I just hate gaming pcs though—I don’t want my computer to look like a Christmas tree. I wish someone made a computer physically like the MacBook Pro but with gaming specs inside.
My computer doesn’t come till the end of the month and we’re in the holiday return period. I’ll play with it and decide if I want to return it or not.
I just use GeForce Now ($20/mo) on MacOS and I don’t need to keep up with a gaming PC.
Have you found GeForce now to be the best game streaming service?
I haven’t really tried any others but it works great on MacOS. Also I have a PS5 and remote play on MacOS also works great (in fact better than Windows since your controller can be wireless).
You can game on it, but you wouldn’t buy this laptop for gaming unless you had more money than sense.
Um, have you looked at the market for gaming PC’s? Plenty of people with plenty of money who are plenty willing to spend it on a gaming machine. They may not be buying it for gaming just yet. But Apple is absolutely aware this group exists.
There’s people who would buy a more advanced version (e.g. M3 Pro instead of M3, etc.) for gaming. Many people want MacBooks for work, but also like to game, and buying two separate computers is annoying. I have two separate computers because I am in that category so in theory it sounds pretty cool to be gaming on my Mac in the future. But to give up my Windows gaming PC I would want at least 80% of the games I want to play to be available on Mac. That is a long journey
That’s me.
A M3 Max covers everything I need (work, EMR, imaging) and has enough grunt for some games.
But I still need to lug around a Windows gaming laptop to, well, play the games.
Right now I carry a 4070 X16 and IPad Pro. Both environments covered. Minimal bulk.
I’d like Apple to take shit more seriously and at a serious price point.
Space black is marketing …it is not as black as space! It is within the Apple family of "space " colours!
as much as i (and i suspect everyone) understand this on one level, it didn’t make it any less enticing at first, but i am really glad that he made a point of mentioning and demonstrating it because it totally brought me back to reality when i was drifting away into “must have space black m3 max now” territory. the other thing that would have disappointed me had he not mentioned it here first is that the cord is black but the brick is white… nothing screams ‘marketing ploy’ to me more than that small detail. at these prices they could at least throw in a black brick. fully commit to the grift. just sayin