I agree. I’m going to be the one figuring out what the “System Requirements” are for World of Warcraft. Then Blizzard can update their System Requirements documentation with what I find. I would have expected them to write their own System Requirements, but I’m glad to help them as an unpaid assistant.
I used to love Macs, but when I started getting into gaming, the inability to do any real upgrading on your soured me pretty quickly.
Also, OP, given Apples history of completely abandoning their support for their first gen of hardware at essentially warp speed, I would have held of on Beta testing their new stuff.
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- WoW currently doesnt run on other ARM based machines (i.e. phones or tablets)… so yeah it’s pretty safe to say you bought a paper weight…
- it will have to run through emulation, so rip performance… but rip performance in general on your purchase… it has as much horsepower running x86 programs as something like a chromebook or tablet.
- Also the lack of any dedicated GPU by Nvidia or AMD (not even at least by Intel), means you will not be having any decent gaming experience on it, pretty much restricted to old games and mobile phone style games or fortnite… It’s literally just as good as what a chromebook is for… school work, light photo editing, internet use, and app store apps.
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Why would anyone use a Mac of all things for gaming?
If you don’t want windows go Linux, which actually has solid game support now–and has for awhile.
Try Microsoft. lol
There are 1 billion active devices running windows 10 and nearly just as many running older versions of windows because businesses around the world upgrade at a snail’s pace due to legacy programs/hardware.
Android has over 2.5 billion active devices too according to a quick Google search.
Macs aren’t bad but don’t be a fanboy.
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Real friends don’t let other friends buy Macs.
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My experiences playing WoW have been just fine on Mac Minis, MacBook Airs, and iMacs, none of which have had a “graphics card”. How do you define “decent experience”? I’ve had a wonderful experience for 15 years. Maybe I don’t need the same performance levels as you do to have “fun”.
I’m guessing that you may play aspects of the game that I don’t, like arenas, where frame rates may be critical. I don’t do that. Maybe that’s why I don’t care about frame rates and video cards.
What are you talking about? Those were all x86 architectures and all had Intel integrated graphics. I suggest googling the specs of your previous apple computer products and see for yourself that they had intel graphics.
The SL beta was a disaster on macs, so don’t expect much.
If you asked Fisher-Price to design electronics, would it look or function any differently?
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They would probably work better and cost a lot less.
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You misunderstood me. Obviously they had graphics chips, since Apple never made one for Macs. What I actually said was that they didn’t have “graphics cards”. All they had was mobile-class graphics chips.
Blizzard has historically supported Macs, so I’m guessing you’ll be fine.
everyone commenting here knows computers can be used for other things besides playing games, right? please tell me you know that. it’s important to me that you know that
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Yes, I bought the Mac Mini on speculation that Blizzard will support it. I have faith. But I’d like to know when. The silence from Blizzard is deafening. I’m guessing that Blizzard might make an announcement in Feb at Blizzcon 2021.
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i think you mean descrete graphics. of course the lower and thin and light models wouldn’t have those. regardless, intel’s “integrated” graphics are supported officially by virtually all pc game developers, especially since the majority of laptops both windows and mac, use intel integrated graphics.
God isn’t that the truth. We’re finally upgrading our late 80s early 90s hardware in our factory as their are no more replacement parts. We’re one short away from being down for a couple of weeks. If their are ANY replacement parts its going to cost about as much as a small country.
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It should run under Rosetta2. Not sure what the performance will be like. I am waiting for performance benchmarks and reviews to come out next week before I decide whether to buy one or not. Even then, I will probably continue playing WOW on my PC.
That is a terrible idea. You may luck out, or you may be screwed.
Your second sentence is correct. Your first sentence is not correct because I use Macs for everything, not just gaming.
I still wouldn’t buy first gen Apple anything. But, best of luck to you getting support after gen 2 is out.