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Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview (www.macrumors.com)
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Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview::Inverse's Raymond Wong today published an in-depth overview of Apple's increasing push towards high-end gaming on the Mac. The story includes...

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[–] Sprucie@feddit.uk 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm curious who the target market for this is. When buying your own system you typically want to get the best performance for your money, and with the Apple tax included you're always going to be paying a lot more for similar specs to something you can build yourself.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think for people who buy pre built gaming PCs the Apple tax might be roughly equivalent... If they also have an iPhone or a MacBook already... It might not be a big jump to go to Mac gaming

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no comparison to macbooks in performance. Battery life and processing power are unrivalled.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I don't think that's true.

Maybe performance per watt is unrivaled, but Intel, AMD, and Nvidia still have the performance crown if you're willing to give them the juice

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Not on laptop chips.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

You should think of it as an added value for overpriced hardware rather than comparing it to existing gaming hardware. Like most people aren't building a "gaming PC" exclusively for gaming.