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I need some advice. I’m planning to buy a MacBook M3 Max tomorrow. Does anyone have experience playing War Thunder on similar machines? I’ve read several forum threads, and they don’t seem very promising because there are many complaints about the game crashing on MacBooks. Is this true, or have the issues been fixed? I’m buying a computer solely to play War Thunder since I’m a fan of MacBooks and don’t want to return to Windows. I’m satisfied with everything, as long as there are no issues with War Thunder. It would be frustrating to buy a $5,000 computer and have the game not work properly.

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i would rather buy an MSI laptop with I5 and rtx-2050, most likely cheaper to
i don’t have any experience with MacBook’s tho.

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Mmmmmm… You could buy Framework’s offering with Linux instead if you hate Windows.
Dell might offer a Linux option for some of its machines.
War Thunder doesn’t do well on Macbook.

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Also IBM may still do the option for Linux too.

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You could buy 5 Windows PCs that would outperform the Macbook for gaming for the same amount of money you would spend on the Macbook. Why people think IOS is worth spending $4000 for is beyond me

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It’s not they’d “out-perform” it’s they’d have less bugs.
Apple was only really expensive for what you were getting during the PPC days.

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My advice: buy a windows. Mac sucks for gaming and it’s ugly as hell. I don’t know why you like Apple over Windows laptops, but Windows has the power, I don’t know what kind of currency you’re in, but in New Zealand, $5000 could get you a rather powerful gaming laptop to run war thunder on high graphics at 60 FPS, Macbooks will never get that powerful. Even a $1000 laptop, which is what I use, has an Intel I5-10210U, 8GB DDR4, Intel UHD 620 integrated is enough to run war thunder on minimum graphics at 30 FPS.

TLDR: Buy windows, Macbooks aren’t for gaming. AT ALL.

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and even in the Industries where macbooks are “industry standard” like Photography and Graphics Design, etc. They are being replaced by Windows fairly rapidly. Though there is a lot of old stereotypes to be replaced.

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That’s true, in my opinion they aren’t good for anything, they were great computers when I was in primary school - but it was them or old chromebooks that didn’t work. As soon as I touched a windows I was instantly converted ahahaha. It’s just so much cleaner and so much more powerful for a cheaper price. Not sure if this is true or not but someone told me Macbooks use one chip for everything - CPU, GPU, RAM, which is just a mess and leads to a horribly performing laptop, although on the plus side makes it very slim, so good for travelling. Not to mention they’re really overpriced.

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I’m wondering when the next gaming console that works solely/primarily over the network comes to be a thing.

Streaming the game to a device isn’t actually that bad now, and it’d make you able to game anywhere in the house with anything.

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That’s true, I mean imagine playing War Thunder on a smart microwave. Seriously though, I’d rather have a proper rig.

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My rig streams out to my garage, it works out pretty good. I recently got the garage wired to ethernet so I’m no longer gaming over the wifi ;)

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Stadia tried and failed pretty heavily, even though i remember it being spammed out on YouTube ads a few years ago. Now nobody remembers it.

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Essentially. Macbooks had 3 main advantages:

  1. SSDs
  2. Powerful CPUs
  3. Apps that used the OS (hard to explain) but that means app open and run faster

But these days, non-mac computers have just closed that gap and more and more a good GPU is just invaluable. The IT guys at my College hated the Macs, they broke all the time, were impossible to fix and cost 3-5x more than an equal performance PC. One told me they spent a year fighting for a grant for £15k ish to buy 20 decent PCs for computer science courses but easily got a grant for £30k to buy 10 new Macs.

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Isnt that just Google Stadia?

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Very different.

My point is a server cabinet in a house, and doing everything over streaming rather than having PCs in every room.

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Oh that’s cool. I’m 16 and I mean, I’m kinda too broke to afford a proper laptop, so my old broken school computer has to have ethernet and an external keyboard to run, but ethernet is a big advantage. Internet speed went up from about 20/30 mbps to 80/90.

I’ve only ever used them at school back when I was year 3 - 6, age 7 - 10. None of this mattered as we didn’t have to download anything, and it was all just writing. They were still much more expensive than even a chromebook, which, realistically was just as powerful for the work we were doing. No idea why my school got them.

Yeahhh but that doesn’t really matter much to me, and anyway, like you said most windows/linux laptops and others have gotten better.

Absolutely wild. I hate Mac and I mean yeah sure they work but WHY would you get it.

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paid 1k for that piece of shit

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Actually my mother paid $1400 for it because she ignored everything my father told her and bought it from the wrong people.

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Old stereotypes, the fact htey were industry standard like 15 years ago and therefore they must be the only options these days. In my college and uni courses Macs were the standard (though I did most of the work on my own Windows Laptop) but whenever I did use a Mac, I plugged my own windows mouses in, No right click just broke me