I am looking to purchase a new 13inch macbook air. Note that I have my own build for heavy gaming, however I will be traveling a lot the next 8 months and need a laptop, that hopefully can handle CASUAL gaming. I am also aware that games graphical performance depend primariliy on dedicated graphics cards.
I'm already sold on getting a macbook, primarily because of "mission control" and it's premium build quality (in my opinion).
When I say casual gaming, I mean low-medium settings with decent frames per second. I really am looking to only have 1-2 games on this computer, to use when I have unusual free time.
There are plenty of accounts and videos of people playing games on their macbook airs. Games I don't really play lol. I've done extensive searching in seeking to answer my questions.
1) Can the 1.3i5 with turbo boost of 2.6 run a game like Company of Heroes, who's recommended settings ask for a 3.0ghz intel pentium? I would like 30+ FPS, and am content with low graphic settings.
2)If so, would the 1.7ghzi7 with 3.3ghz turboboost give a greater than 15% performance increase running this game or games of similar requirements? Or allow to run at higher graphical settings with 30+ FPS?
All help is much appreciated.
I'm already sold on getting a macbook, primarily because of "mission control" and it's premium build quality (in my opinion).
When I say casual gaming, I mean low-medium settings with decent frames per second. I really am looking to only have 1-2 games on this computer, to use when I have unusual free time.
There are plenty of accounts and videos of people playing games on their macbook airs. Games I don't really play lol. I've done extensive searching in seeking to answer my questions.
1) Can the 1.3i5 with turbo boost of 2.6 run a game like Company of Heroes, who's recommended settings ask for a 3.0ghz intel pentium? I would like 30+ FPS, and am content with low graphic settings.
2)If so, would the 1.7ghzi7 with 3.3ghz turboboost give a greater than 15% performance increase running this game or games of similar requirements? Or allow to run at higher graphical settings with 30+ FPS?
All help is much appreciated.
/www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/2
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