Most of us have giant gaming rigs, 3070’s/4080’s etc. I’m watching this new Apple event with the M4.
It seems for around 700 bucks you can buy a computer that will run World of Warcraft with zero issues and probably better than a 3000dollar intel/gpu combo regular computer.
Am I wrong?
I’ve not seen the apple event and they obviously don’t like sending their stuff out to review sites that aren’t apple people. That said the M3 was pretty impressive for integrated graphics. I don’t see you getting $3k gaming tech value out of a $700 PC especially when you need so much power for that kind of performance and Apple hates large power supplies.
and definitely not a $700 Apple product. Don’t forget, you generally are also paying a premium for the name.
I’m not a big Apple person in terms of keeping up with them but what was the M3 Pro showing off in terms of performance? RTX3060M to RTX4050M performance? M3 Max at RTX460M. I’ll be generous and say Apple improves it by 30% and you sure as heck won’t be getting either the M4 Max or Pro at $700.
i can’t speak for their laptops/computers but my wife and kids all use apple phones, and in my opinion they are far far inferior to my pixel
i can’t for the life of me understand why their OS feels so primitive
we’ve only used Pixel since probably they launched just after Nexus and I had a Nexus 5 way back when
people had me their apple phones to fix and I just hand them back and say go to the apple store, clean Android is just so much easier to use
It’ll probably do fine as long as you don’t crank the rez up to 4k.
I’d expect 4060 levels of performance for the base model.
Not bad for an entry level rig.
The M4 is great in terms of the performance you can get relative to the power consumption. It’s probably the best/only option there is if you actually plan to play WoW while using a laptop on battery power. For a mini desktop I’m not sure that power consumption is that important really, but that’s your call.
But overall, it will get trashed by even a mid-tier Windows desktop gaming PC. Any illusions you have of it being able to compete with anything close to a high-end desktop is either deceptive Apple marketing or Apple fanboy nonsense.
I was very happy with the performance of my M1 Macbook Air with World of Warcraft. Would it replace even my mid-range rig at the time? Not a chance. The same goes for the M4. Not to mention all the little dumb things, like needing a USB C display.
USB-C isn’t a display output in and of itself, it’s simply capable of carrying a Displayport signal.
So all you need to do to hook a regular Displayport monitor to a computer that is using USB-C as a video output is a $10 USB-C to Displayport cable. There are also plenty of USB-C to HDMI and even USB-C to VGA adapters available in the $10-20 range.