Can a MacBook Replace Your Gaming PC? 

The worst part is, Apple could be competitive in the gaming space if they felt like putting some real effort in

I think desktop pcs and gaming laptops will always be better for gaming than macbooks but if mac os gets some more compatibility it could be a good choice for games

If Apple Mac and Steam decide to collab, world of gaming would be very interesting

Interesting to watch this after last night's Apple event for the M3, which seems to be Apple pushing more towards gaming

You have to agree with me, console wars, MacBooks, play store games. As long as you have steam, windows PC will ALWAYS be the best

Apple changed the licensing with their GPTK which is why crossover made it easy to implement with the latest update. With the latest changes in GPTK licensing I think valve can use this to implement it to their launcher similar to Proton is to Linux.

why apple gotta make everything complicated

The biggest problem is is that if you want to play anything demanding or if you like game modding then dudu hits the fan.

The biggest problem is that a single game takes up like 50-100GB of storage.

what a timing for a video, CrossOver just released a version with GPTK, making it way easier to do this

I have been loving all of your videos! You are doing such an AMAZING JOB brother!

I’m currently running GTA V on my 8 year old MacBook Pro and enjoying it, I don’t have a gaming PC, but I indeed proved to myself that gaming on a Mac is possible, CS2, GTA V, GTA IV, Minecraft, and so much more, it’s so cool!

WOW you started very small but already have grown to 70k+ keep this up and get to 100k subs !

The simple answer to the title is, NO.

Hey Zach!!!! Love ya work man, but as a PC user I'm just sitting back and laughing. Way too much effort LOL.

They are actually hurting their sales, If I can use bootcamp on the new m1 macs I would buy it immediately

Apple could make the next big console and really knock it out of the park man. It’s fucking crazy

It would be nice if Apple would be "Honest" for once and say clearly that they took WINE (An opensource software) that does all the translations of Windows Calls to Apple... Cause what they say is : "Ho we all made it our self we are better..."... But in reality that's WINE behind the scene and no one would know about the hard work they made... Sadly :(

I'd say Apple could totally make their own game console using their in house Silicon but I think they're still shaken up by the Pippin :p I think that Mac's are more work focused than gaming anyway which isn't necessarily a bad thing

I feel like this is somewhat misleading. While it's "neat" that you can kinda game on a Mac (and it's getting better), your average Mac user isn't running a Max chip - but it's the extra GPU cores in the Max chip that's doing all the heavy lifting here and allowing this kind of performance - which is mediocre at best. Meaning you can't really say "this is me gaming on my M1 Mac" - you're gaming on an M1 MAX - which has FAR more GPU cores (like ~2x Pro and ~4x base) than your typical base and Pro variants that most people have. You also paid A LOT more for that Max-equipped Mac than a typical gamer would for their gaming PC. It's not an Apples to Apples comparison (pun intended).

What's the name of the app used to show FPS, temperature, and other information about the computer on screen?

Love to see your channel grow dude!! Cant wait to see what you have in store for us next

An excellent and very clarifying video. Thank you so much!

That is incredible. It looked sooo good!

The best solution for Mac Gaming is not Crossover or Parallels or waiting for some Apple promise. It's GeforceNOW Game Streaming. I play every game from my existing Steam or Epic library on Macbook Pro M1 at highest settings. The fans don't even kick in. It costs 10 bucks a months. For this price i save on expensive gaming hardware and energy costs.

Perhaps Apple should launch a console that share the core of the newest Apple Silicon Macs, in collaboration with big gaming companies. This way, not only there will be a new powerful console out there, but that will also make it finally possible (and viable) for devs to port the Apple Console games to Mac, cuz obviously it's gonna be dumb easy.

I'm surprised how such a big company like Apple fails to see the potential impact they could have in the gaming market...

"you potato! " 😂🥔 greetings from potato to potato! 😁 Very cool, exactly what I was looking for 😎👍🏻

If you pirated parallels, installed windows, you can then pirate any game made for windows

The thing that impress me the most with appels new m1 and m2 processors its fanless have absolute 0 fans in that tin can pc and its hella impressive prop to Appel for being so unique! Sadly the prices are steep but it can be worth it for some people and new aaa games is coming to both iphone 15 pro and ipads with m1 m2 apus wich is awsome.

I've switched to an iPhone now, and will probably get an iPad Air sometime for my media use at night as I lounge in bed and watch shows. But I don't know if I could switch my gaming PC to an Apple computer. I use my Windows PC as a general multimedia and gaming system and I can play everything on it. At the same time, I'd love to have the inter compatibility between my phone and my computer that Apple computers have between iPhone and Apple computers.

If I can play all my steam and Bettle net games on mac at high refresh rate 1440p, I will ditch my PC!

I knew it will run but I knew as well that it will most likely run hot which I do not want in any of my devices. The test is can it play for hours without your platform combusting into flames?

Problem is Apple is just way too overpriced for what you're getting. My friend bought the top of the line macbook pro for a little over $4k. For like $700 less I can get a pc with an i9/ryzen 9, 128gb ram, 2tb ssd, and a rtx 4090 which would beat the shit out of the Mac. Shit even an $800 pc build with a rtx 3060 ti will outperform the mac in every way.

bro flexed disney land

I wonder how would it run on a M1 Pro, but not a max version.

video edited so well lol. good job

been playing crusader kings, cuphead, rust ,and sims 4 on my m1 mac.

It can after that new crossover update 5 days ago. My m2 max slaps new games around with ease while dealing with dx12 on the fly very well. I’d say it beats a gtx 1080

I’m not sure if plugging it in actually makes a difference? I don’t think the TDP of the processor changes on battery, unlike windows laptops which have worse performance per watt

When you talk about homebrew at 3:25, you said that you should have done more research about the terminal codes. What do you mean by that? I don't understand

Short answer: No. And if your macbook can run the games you run on desktop, you shouldn't have a desktop. It applies to every single laptop btw

This got recommended to me fresh out of the oven

top tier editing, underrated channel.

For the cost of the upgraded SSD in a mac big enough to actually have games on it, you can build a PC that smokes it.

watched that, and day is better

Best option is to turn the Mac into a full windows

In two years when I want to upgrade my video card and put a new one in I can do that on a PC. On the Mac I have to buy a new computer.

Man, macOS Sonoma is really good! I'm playing a PS2 emulator (AetherSX2) on my MB Air M1 8 GB in 4K60, running Gran Turismo 4 very well, I'm impressed, as it's running on Metal API, which is not supported on the Ventura. All this on battery without losing FPS. (Yes, it's still pretty hot, but not that hot.)

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As a casual gamer I want apple to be least this much generous to give us proper 60 fps gaming. I don't care much above 60fps that much tbh because higher graphics usually don't have much fps and apple can give us graphics. I hope 😑

It cannot match a gaming laptop with DEDICATED GRAPHIC CARD. Stop the bullshit

GeForce NOW is such a better option for mac gamers now. The latency is almost non existent

Can you do using ipod as your everyday phone?

I defiantly would have subscribed had you dropped some links, I can't find this stuff anywhere

The point is "Heat accumulation", psu screaming there soon ...

so... now you can run any pc game using the steam u installed? Am I right?

Hi, are you going to play Resident Evil Village? it would come directly to Mac end of October, thanks

The answer is no

Can it replace my gaming PC? Let's see... Half of the price, even cheaper if I get the steam deck, all the level RTX or even GTX, or amd RX, I can play any game I want, I can constumize any thing I want and... Windows works with a lot of software, playing ate 360hz or even higher, but I keep at 60hz. So yeah... No chance. My PC is a Beast

I have Mac book pro from 2017 and it struggles to run Windows Xp. But it can launch steam with no problem

Now you can just use the latest version of crossover. It costs money but it saves you the hassle of having to install the game porting toolkit.

ARM is just a beast platform,

Time for cloud gaming. No need for a console.

I canceled a m3 max preorder because I didn’t feel like the gaming experience would be worth it. My 3070 laptop would probably continue to outperform most games and it costs a quarter of the price. That being said I HATE WINDOWS and will make the switch when the tech improves.

bro good job but i easily run BF4 on my 2022 M2 Macbook 8/512 via Crossover v24 and it runs completely OK (i play multiplayer only) i think Apple's GPTK is already IN Crossover cause GPTK completely free and in Crossover you can run games via MetalFX (how does Steam Deck i guess)

video actual starts at half of it

not bad as a pc gamer very good but think you where very genrouse on the stars for mac like i feel 2 stars for the getting ready to play games dose not matter if most peoplewill not do it just it took you an hour and you gave 4 stars but apart from that i shocked how good it is i want to see how the ipad pro plays games

Windows laptops just tend to performed so much worse over the course of a few years this would be awesome

tried playing Star Citizen but I couldn't but I wanted to so badly since I don't have a PC, a Mac will always excel at productivity stuff but not gaming

If u play longer heatups can damage the chip.

2:31 is bro at six flags?!

40-50 fps not good imo.

This aged like dry age milk

Run windows on iMac 😢

Tried a 2011 iMac to play GTA… didnt end well!

Have you tried Xbox game pass on a MacBook cause I have no issues with my MacBook or iPad pro

Hi there! if you are watching this, please reply I have some questions. I hope you can help me with that.. Or you can give me any information where I can contact you

Should have been a 1 star for user experience, especially compared to just buying the game and playing it. BTW, My FPS on an "average" pc is 120 fps. No way that Mac can keep up.

my mac can’t handle large music production tasks building s monster pc right now

See what people should understand it could replace a Windows PC a gaming PC about the times over in fact you’ll probably get less bugs less but you should also understand if you’re getting it for older games that I’ve been out a while then, but it will play every new thing on the market in fact, all the newer games that are coming out as of now or getting released on it like the new assassin Creed and anything new basically that’s gonna go over there is gonna go over here so the silicone series it can I mean the M1 M2 Max whatever it can be good but it’s up to you as the gamer to know what you like. Do you want those gamers that are in it for the older stuff it’s not gonna do you justice so it’s gonna be a biased opinion, so you keep a PC specifically for that

First off this video was GREAT! wasn't expecting this quality of writing from a channel of your size and you aced it! second of all, compliments aside... I feel like yes, the MacBook in a vacuum is great. But once you start comparing it to similarly priced windows machienes the glory starts to fall apart. You can pick up a good specced M1 Max laptop for around 2 grand (British Pound £) and for the same price you can pick up a system with an rte 4080 and an i9-139980HX (and some spare cash onto of that if you find a good deal on one) and those things run cyberpunk at triple the fps. Which, weighing up ALL the benefits of using Mac, its kind of hard to ignore the drawbacks. here, 99% of people will use the battery life argument as a reasoning as to why Mac is better than windows but I want to bring up the screens which for the price SUCK at gaming. The motion rendering and response time just aren't it for gaming (which is kinda important in the context of replacing your gaming pc?) with that said, great video and hope you enjoy a new sub

geforce now is a thing?????

Windows pcs are generally better value, and the Macs advantage goes away when having to translate an api and programming instructions.

Hello I really love your channel and I have a video suggestion with your iPhone 3GS can you make a video on how to make the phone 100 percent usable like not just Minecraft I want to download instagram Facebook all apps

This got recommended to me fresh out of the ocen

but...is macOS 14 support MacBook Pro 2017

2000$ is crazy

I would say, the m1 is very impressive, but... I prefer the APU from the steam deck. Coz apple won't say it, but ARM, is an APU. But, just buy a console if you can't deal with PC. But I would also say... On PC, you are the king you can control a lot of things in the game. My advice would be, give it a try.

Looks very dark but I know nothing about this topic,talking to many people who definitely do know I don't think apple is worth it for this.

think desktop pcs and gaming laptops will always be better for gaming than macbooks but if mac os gets some more compatibility it could be a good choice for games

good recommendation from RU-vid

I need the MacBook for music production stuff and game every 3-4 Months. In this case the MacBook m3 pro is actually fine, I can play hogwarts legacy with crossover, ultra settings 2k res in 60+ fps. I would never recommend macbooks for gamers, but it still can handle some games

i would give a macbook 2 out of 10

Finally something apple did good

can falout new vegas run on the oldest mac?

I'm a student I'm going to build a budget pc will play only valorant on it and I have a laptop with i3 8th gen and might want a new laptop which one should I get macbook air m2 15", m1 max or a cheaper windows laptop which I can carry plus do good gaming along with decent battery

Now try it on an air laptop

Bro this is SICK!! :]

So, it's just a shittier version of Valve's Proton, got it.