Hear me out before you beat me with spiked clubs because of my lack of knowledge when it comes to these things. Skip to the bottom if you don't want to hear my circumstances.
First, I'm a growing artist, and am about to finish high school. All my life I've been told ( and experienced first hand ) that Macs are some of the best designing computers out there. They cover wide ranges of media which would greatly help out my future careers.
Second, I love video games. Between drawing and hanging out with friends, xbox is a viable way of stress relieving, and gives me reasons to stay home and be a slouch all day.
This being said, my father and I have agreed to put our money together so when I graduate in a few months we can purchase a really souped up Mac. Haven't decided which respective model yet, but that's why Im here. I love art, and gaming, and was hoping that by getting a Mac I could take both out in one fell swoop. I was wrong. After doing some research, Macs aren't as gaming oriented as I thought- unless I spent a fortune on MacPro processors and the regular MacBook Pro.
But my career comes first, so Im DEFINITELY getting a Mac. I know its nothing for intense gaming, but if I installed Windows/ XP onto it, what're the odds a Mass Effect game (full graphic detail or not) could run smoothly on it? I'd really appreciate your opinions.
Mass Effect- Mac Functionality?
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BioJaegar
, déc. 03 2011 02:49
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Posté 03 décembre 2011 - 03:15
Yabberkanaw
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I'm playing ME (1 and 2) on a Mac Pro, using Windows native in a Bootcamp partition. No problem; I only had to install original drivers for graphics and audio cards, discarding the ones that came along with Bootcamp. I started with XP many years ago, and now I have Windows 7 64 bit. I don't know anything about playing ME series on a Macbook, though.
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Posté 03 décembre 2011 - 03:28
BioJaegar
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But for sure, MacPro runs ME games pretty smoothly?
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Posté 03 décembre 2011 - 10:46
Yabberkanaw
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Mac Pro is a monster, far above the recommended specs, not to mention minimum specs. Provide it a good graphics card, like AMD Radeon HD 5870, and you can play almost any game, not only the ME series, at maximum resolution and all graphic effects enabled.
