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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well to start, it would certainly be helpful to support OpenGL + Vulcan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

“Not like that”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

A new technology built into the M3 family of chips is Dynamic Caching, which allows the GPU to allocate memory usage in real time.

Sells it with 8GB of RAM...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Mac gaming Top kek

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I know Valve and others have done a lot of the legwork already, so maybe it won't be so difficult for Apple to catch up, but it feels a little bit like Microsoft's last attempt at making phones. It's been a minute since the starting bell, the competition has the software catalog already, and it'll cost the consumer more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to these high-end gaming macs with 8 gigs of RAM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was a cheese grater in the thumbnail.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s been the joke since it was released.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How about those $700 wheels?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Isn't the problem that they are using ARM hardware. Like sure your x86 emulator can be good, but if you look at something like proton it's taken years for it to get good. And that's not even a different CPU architecture. So apple would have to make a wine equivalent, a DKVK, equivalent, and a really great X86 emulator if that's even possible on current gen hardware.

Somehow I don't see them catching up with Linux gaming.