Which new mac is best to run the sims 3 I have a air now but I'm upgrading to a new laptop. Want to get a new MacBook or MacBook Pro. Which would be best to run the game on?
Which new mac is best to run the sims 3 I have a air now but I'm upgrading to a new laptop. Want to get a new MacBook or MacBook Pro. Which would be best to run the game on?
In more detail, what Apple now calls a regular MacBook shouldn't be running a game like this it all. Their processors are far too weak and they do not have internal fans. It's not what they are designed to do, their strong points are portability and OS X much like with MacBook Airs, only weaker.
On the MacBook Pros, the higher end 15" models with the AMD Radeon graphics cards could probably do a decent job with the game, again in Windows not on OS X. But that means you would need the larger hard drive to have room for a Bootcamp partition.
TS3 for Mac, meaning the Mac version of the game running natively on OS X, remains a mess if you can even get it going on the current operating systems.
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In more detail, what Apple now calls a regular MacBook shouldn't be running a game like this it all. Their processors are far too weak and they do not have internal fans. It's not what they are designed to do, their strong points are portability and OS X much like with MacBook Airs, only weaker.
On the MacBook Pros, the higher end 15" models with the AMD Radeon graphics cards could probably do a decent job with the game, again in Windows not on OS X. But that means you would need the larger hard drive to have room for a Bootcamp partition.
TS3 for Mac, meaning the Mac version of the game running natively on OS X, remains a mess if you can even get it going on the current operating systems.
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