I have both. Apple never forces you to log in to their server just to run the machine that you bought from them. They limit 3rd parties in what they can create for applications and drivers but they don’t bother the actual owners of their computers.
If they were as bad as Microsoft I’d switch over to Linux as my main machine and only use Windows or MacOS as needed but Mac is just not that annoying.
I have had poor experiences play on macs. I would stick with a pc.
I hate this recent thing about Microsoft. However, you don’t have to do that. MS just wants you to think you have to (unless they changed it with 11, which I’m refusing to upgrade to.) It’s not obvious and requires extra steps, but totally worth it in my opinion.
None of my Windows boxes reach out to MS to authenticate.
In re in general:
Personally, there were only two reasons I never bought a Mac:
Though some of the recent Apple trends pushed me away from considering them, when MS pissed me off. So my main two points still stand.
You cans and it should be fines, but keep in mind in regards to upgradin’ your machines, Macs are a lot more limiteds. Not to mentions the inflated price tags ands doin’ just about anything voids your warranties.
Yous can get a pretty barebones PC laptop that can probably run WoW decently enoughs for a couple hundred bucks. I’d recommend thats but if you really want a Mac, you shouldn’t have any WoW-specific issues.
I play WoW on a Mac simply because the company I work for provides me one for personal and business use.
Even then, I wouldn’t recommend a Mac for playing WoW. It overheats too easily. And I have one of the newer ones.
I recommend playing WoW on a Macbook Fire or a Macbook Water. Macbook Airs don’t have enough substance to run WoW, and Macbook Earths are too slow. Macbook Fires do tend to overheat, but you can keep that under control by trying to be cool when you play.
My Mac is a Mac Mini. It appears to be the best bargain in the Mac line.
You’d have to run it on extremely low settings. Prob will get 15-30 fps. Enjoy that $1200 computer.
What are you comparing it to a $250 Walmart laptop with windows starter edition?
You ever notice all the negative responses on the Mac never have the specs? Not saying like I7 vs I3 but not even chip manufacturer or generation? Almost like they dont really have knowledge or dont want to admit their PC chip has inferior performance in a Mac than Apples 2-year-old chip…
All the positive reposes seem to point out the M series specificially. Having played on intel mac, M1 mac, Intel mac with eGPU, PC with integrated, integrated with 2 differing levels of video cards, I can say the M1 in my Mini was great. I could almost run max in 1080p well above 60 frames smoothly in the content I run.
My intel mini would get very hot with no eGPU. My M1 mini was drastically cooler and could not even use the eGPU.
The M1 Macs are fine for WoW (even with only 8 GB ram since its handled differently), and I assume he M2 would be even better.
Now other games like FFXIV? Thats a whole different story. I dont game a lot, nor play a lot of different games, but the M series were great if WoW was the only thing I would ever play. I took mine back and just replaced my dead video card in my spare PC so I could do other games like P99, EQ and FFXIV.
This is a bit overplayed. If you’re comparing macs to value-oriented Windows prebuilts, yes it’s true, but if you select Windows prebuilts matching for fit and finish and specs they’re usually just as expensive. Dell XPS and Lenovo Thinkpad X-series machines are a couple of MacBook-equivalent Windows laptop lines and they’re all as expensive or moreso than MacBooks while having shorter battery life and more issues with heat and fan noise.
For desktops, of course you’re going to get better value building yourself (assuming that there isn’t a GPU shortage screwing things up) but building isn’t everybody’s thing. I can practically do it my sleep but that’s probably not true for the average person.
The real scam is the majority of prebuilt Windows desktops like those from Dell/Alienware, HP, etc. Those things are absolute garbage for what you’re paying. You could pay a friend $500 on top of parts costs to do a custom build and still come out better than you would with one of those overpriced dumpsterfires.
MAKE absolutely sure if you do get it running that you go into video settings and set the max FPS (60 or so) settings or it will turn your macbook air into macbook smoke.
I would say that yea, it can probably run WoW alright. But don’t buy a Macbook to play WoW. If you have one already, give it a shot.
i got ksm and have killed mythic bosses on a macbook pro using my trackpad instead of a mouse
You can sit on anything you want while you play on your gaming PC. Just a thought.
it’s supposed to run great on M chip series macs, blizzard was one of the first developers to support the new chip I believe.
ignore all the people turning their nose up at the mere mention of a mac, they’re good work computers and with a little finagling to make them actually run windows games they’re half decent gaming machines.
Yes and no regarding overplayed. I build my own desktops (so Windows) but with laptops, naturally, one must go with pre-builts. In that I find Macs far more expensive, at least over the years (I’m not young. I have a signed Mac+ sitting in my basement. ) bang for buck. I got really lucky in that regard. Bought all the components for me and the spouse just as the graphics card shortage was beginning to hit pre-Covid. Because of the build (for long term) it came out pretty pricey, but I was buying near the high-end to ensure the machine was going to last me for years.
I will agree on some of the so-called ‘high end’ laptops on the Windows side are stupid pricey and not worth the money and some brands are really in the ‘don’t buy if you have any sense at all’ category for me.
I love my HP Omen, but I do need an external cooling pad for it when I play WoW or any other graphics-intensive game.
Yea WoW still has the cartoony graphics for the simple reason that everyone can play on just about anything now.
I usually play on a windows desktop machine, but I have a Macbook Pro with the M1 chip (the 2020 13 inches version) that I mostly use for work.
Sometimes I log on the Mac for daily quests and stuff and it runs surprisingly well. Hell, in some ways it feels even smoother than my windows machine (11th generation i5, Nvidia 1070 GPU). I suspect heavy stuff like raiding will be noticeable slower, but it’s in no way impossible to play wow on a mac with the M1 or M2 chip.
Me to 
A year later, and still running great. Hope to eventually upgrade the video card, but the gtx 1660 is plenty good enough for this game, and my rts games. As for Apple products I’ve only ever purchased iphones, iPads over the years. Know nothing about Apple desktop, or laptop pc’s.
I’ve had mine for three years now. Battery died (I bought extended support) so they replaced it, no muss, no fuss, was out a laptop for just a few days, which surprised the heck out of me.
Recommended it to a friend’s kid and he was so happy he called me to thank me for my advice, he’s very happy with his. It’s still my go-to recommendation.