A few of you have probably seen my other posts about laptops and so on but today I'm asking the question: "Is a MacBook Pro any good for sims?"
My other laptop which is not made for sims in the slightest used to work just fine and could handle it, but it's getting old and slowing down and freezing. I've been looking at some at a reasonable price. Preferably under £800 and found some I think would be good.
Here are some questions I'd like to know:
Is a MacBook Pro any good for sims?
Is a MacBook Pro any good in general?
Can it handle sims?
Any links for good MacBooks?
Thank you
- ritaroxy12
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The only thing I am not happy with is that I don't have Sims 2 running on here.
I love my MacBook Pro. It's the best computer I've ever had. It's great for gaming, despite what a lot of people might say.
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But don't expect for one minute to experience the same gameplay as a Windows user, unless you Boot Camp your Mac:
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/539546.page
I did try Boot Camping my Mac for a while, and it was terrrrrible. Constantly crashing and freezing, super laggy, graphics had to be all the way down, the colors kept changing contrast, took FOREVER to load and save, couldn't play in windowed mode but at the same time fullscreen mode made it run even slower, etc. And I didn't do *anything* wrong in the installation process, and this was all without CC. I would not recommend Boot Camping, because for me it was just a big waste of time.
Also, I feel like it's worth mentioning that I went for the 8GB of RAM instead of 4. I would HIGHLY recommend doing that, because TS3 typically uses at least 4GB of RAM and you might experience lagging and crashing if that's all you've got. It makes the computer more expensive, yes, but it is definitely worth it.
Here are the specs for my mid-2012 MacBook Pro:
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB
Software OS X 10.8.5
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/748338.page
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