I’am thinking of buying a Macbook pro 16inch in near future. The only game I play is WoW, and I’am currently playing it on my hp envy laptop without a problem. Because of certain reasons I would like to transition to Mac Os, and I would really like to get the new 16inch macbook. My question is, would WoW Bfa and Shadowlands soon be smoothly playable and at what settings? What would the performance be like and would it overheat? I have 0 experience with gaming on Mac, that is why I’am asking this question.
Just looked at the specs, it look will definitely run wow at 5-8 60+ fps.
I’m not sure if i’m reading that correctly but is that a 4k upscaled monitor? Not sure what FPS you’ll get with that though. 4K is very intensive and lowers performance by a huge margin.
According to apple, the laptop has a native resolution of 3072-by-1920, and it says that it supports scaled resolutions of: 2048x1280, 1792x1120, 1344x840, 1152x720. I won’t be using external monitor, I will just play it on my laptop.
Looks good man, go for it.
Why MAC? Is there a reason for that platform?
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Because of the display resolution, you will need to reduce the resolution scale in game below 100% to have anything near what I would call a playable experience. And it will look like butt. And your computer will also likely get hot enough to fry an egg on (I love the aluminum, but, imo, it gets way hotter than plastic). That’s my direct experience with multiple Apple laptops.
It’s just Mac, which is short for Macintosh. MAC is a type of hardware address for networked devices.
You don’t think the 5500M can do 60FPS running at 3072x1920 with low-mid to mid settings? It definitely isn’t going to do anything above mid smoothly but with how sharp everything is at native rez (don’t even need AA) I think it’s a fair tradeoff.
As for cooling supposedly the 16" model is a good deal better about that, with a beefier heatsink+fans that they increased thickness to accommodate.
I have no hands on experience with this particular model though so this is all conjecture.
I’am confused about the resolution. My Hp-Envy has 1080p display, and I’am currently playing WoW on it at 1080p and looks okay. So if the macbook has a higher resolution and I lower it to 1080p would it look worse compared to the hp or the same? If it looks same, I’am fine on playing on lower resolution as long the other settings are high.
Oh, so I can call it MAC. Thanks for that.
The 5500m is pretty much a budget GPU. About 50-75% slower than a 1060 and I wouldn’t even use a 1060 to play at a higher resolution than 1080p.
I guess if you’re monitor is locked to 60Hz and you feel like downscaling resolution to 50% then go for it.
EDIT : There’s a Youtube video that actually shows a preview of this. Search World of Warcraft 5500m and it is the first one that pops up. Guy has graphics around 5-6 w/ a resolution scale of 56%. He has an FPS of about 60 while out in the random open world.
High DPI screens like the Macbook’s (and many other laptops’ these days) have very small pixels and almost no gaps (the “screen door” effect you see if you hold the screen up to your face) between the pixels, which makes scaled resolutions look worse than they would on a screen that runs the scaled resolution natively. Basically, the gaps between the pixels helps hide the stepping/pixelation of the image on low DPI screens, and the pixel gaps on high DPI screens are too small to hide the effect on lower resolutions.
To see a similar effect, try running WoW on your 1080p display at 50% render scale (960x540). It’s not pretty.
So high DPI screens look incredible if you can run games on them at native resolution, but they look terrible with scaled resolutions.
Interesting, I play WoW on a 5700 XT and it’s great so I figured that the 5500M was maybe half as powerful. Goes to show that you can’t make assumptions based on naming conventions.
I mean if you want a Macbook, go nuts, but may i suggest to you to look at PCs that are around the same specs your looking at before going ahead and making that purchase option? 
I looked up the new apple macbook your talking about and it’s like 2 thousand dollars on Amazon and Apple.
If you are looking to spend 2 thousand dollars into a gaming rig (on PCs that is), ho boy, that’s gonna get you somewhere high and fast with the PC considering you can get parts for cheaper and etc etc. Heck, you can cut that budget in half and still get a PC that will knock your socks off in terms of performance/graphics and last you a good long while.
Laptops aren’t typically great for gaming, but they are not a bad choice either, it’s just they are more expensive for the sheer fact that it’s portable. And usually not upgrade friendly.
Now i’m curious, what is your reason to move into a Mac? i would imagine it involves your job, needing you to do doing 3d animation/photoshop stuff? 