SeventyEight Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Hi guys! First time i write on this forum but i'm always here checking stuff out. I just had a question. I'm buying a new computer this week. It's a macbook pro, 2,2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 4GB ram, 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm, Intel HD Graphics 3000AMD Radeon HD 6750M med 1 GB GDDR5. of course i'm installing windows 7 on it with boot camp. Do you think that i will be able to play skyrim with everything maxed? What's your thought?All the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderiii Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeventyEight Posted October 20, 2011 Author Share Posted October 20, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. 4GB of RAM should be more than enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderiii Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeventyEight Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) ok! Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunatly i need the macbook for my work so i have to have it.. Is it possible to use an external video card? Sorry for all the questions but i'm not so good at this stuff. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyro Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) ok! Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunatly i need the macbook for my work so i have to have it.. Is it possible to use an external video card? Sorry for all the questions but i'm not so good at this stuff. Thanks again!I thought Apple had put gaming in mind now. On the website, it says "Game-changing graphics. AMD Radeon graphics on the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro are up to 3x faster than those in previous models,4 so you can take everything from games to CAD to HD video projects anywhere." That's probably the one with i7.Also, woohoo, I'll be getting one of these soon. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) ok! Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunatly i need the macbook for my work so i have to have it.. Is it possible to use an external video card? Sorry for all the questions but i'm not so good at this stuff. Thanks again!I thought Apple had put gaming in mind now. On the website, it says "Game-changing graphics. AMD Radeon graphics on the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro are up to 3x faster than those in previous models,4 so you can take everything from games to CAD to HD video projects anywhere." That's probably the one with i7.Also, woohoo, I'll be getting one of these soon. :) The only difference between a Mac and a Windows machine is the operating system so there's no reason why they can't be used for gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeventyEight Posted October 22, 2011 Author Share Posted October 22, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) ok! Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunatly i need the macbook for my work so i have to have it.. Is it possible to use an external video card? Sorry for all the questions but i'm not so good at this stuff. Thanks again!I thought Apple had put gaming in mind now. On the website, it says "Game-changing graphics. AMD Radeon graphics on the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro are up to 3x faster than those in previous models,4 so you can take everything from games to CAD to HD video projects anywhere." That's probably the one with i7.Also, woohoo, I'll be getting one of these soon. :) Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyro Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 What resolution the screen on it? You should be able to run it at fairly high settings at 1366 x 768 or 1440 x 900..... 1600 x 900 should be good too, although not at "Max" anything higher than that is not going to do too well unless you turn some of the settings down or off completely.Ok thanks a lot! What do you think is the weakest part on that computer? i think i will get 4 more ram so i'll have 8. the resolution on the screen is 1680 x 1050. Well, you will lose a little bit of performance because of Boot Camp, but the weakest link hardware wise is going to be the video card. Don't get me wrong, the HD 6750M is a nice mobile gpu, but it's not going to compete with it's desktop counterpart by any means. If you have it in your budget, a 460M would be the sweet spot for gaming @ 1600 x 900, but they are costly and I'm not sure if a Macbook can handle the extra heat either. *unless you truly need a macbook for either work or school -I suggest that you get a Windows laptop.... Macbooks have their place, but they are not designed with gaming in mind; not to mention the additional cost of one. It's up to you, but if you want to game heavily, you could make a better choice. :) ok! Thanks for your feedback! Unfortunatly i need the macbook for my work so i have to have it.. Is it possible to use an external video card? Sorry for all the questions but i'm not so good at this stuff. Thanks again!I thought Apple had put gaming in mind now. On the website, it says "Game-changing graphics. AMD Radeon graphics on the 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pro are up to 3x faster than those in previous models,4 so you can take everything from games to CAD to HD video projects anywhere." That's probably the one with i7.Also, woohoo, I'll be getting one of these soon. :) The only difference between a Mac and a Windows machine is the operating system so there's no reason why they can't be used for gaming.Hmm. I was searching on google and found this answer on yahoo answers for "Will Skyrim be compatible with Mac?""It appears Skyrim will only be available for Windows (as far as pc gaming goes). However, there will most likely be a third-party port for the game out pretty quickly, though you should own a legal copy of the game if you want to use it. I know how it feels, not enough games are released for macs, though some developers are beginning to see that mac users do purchase games."Does this mean only disc purchased copies will work for Windows? Surely if you purchase the game through Steam you can get a Mac compatible version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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