I know I'm a little late here, but honestly, for the same price (or even cheaper), you could easily get much higher specs with higher processing power, more cores, and with dedicated (aka separate) graphics cards on a Windows laptop (or desktop). The non-touch bar 13' has a dual core processor whereas the touch bar 13' has a quad core processor so is more powerful.Īnd yes, the MacBook Airs are great for their purpose - mobile computing for school and work - but absolutely not designed for is largely about the graphics card -Īnd yes, the MacBook Airs are great for their purpose - mobile computing for school and work - but absolutely not designed for gaming, If you're limited to the non-touch bar 13' MacBook Pro be aware that if you install a lot of packs to the game it will start slowing down significantly and you will have to keep your settings on the low side in-game to keep gameplay relatively smooth. Apple use mobile versions of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards in these Macs (not including the iMac Pro) - the iMac is essentially a bigger, sometimes more powerful, desktop version of the 15' MacBook Pro. MacBooks, MacBook Airs,13' MacBook Pros and the entry level 21' iMac don't have graphics cards per se, they have integrated processors/graphics chips and share system memory (the 8Gb RAM that is referring to).ġ5' MacBook Pros and all other iMacs have dedicated/discrete graphics cards which have their own memory, much better for gaming.

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