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Sep 01, 2023 03:10 PM By  Cedrik Lussier

Hi Andrew, I agree that our gaming usage may suggest the MacBook is better than it actually is but it also performed quite well in games that weren’t designed to run on Mac which is impressive. We try to keep a standardized testing suite across laptop which sometimes puts us in a tight corner. Here it’s tough since the MacBook may lack in GPU and pure gaming but the gaming score also includes other elements that make for a good gaming laptop, like display and thermals. These two are where the MacBook is miles ahead of traditional gaming laptops. We’ll keep this in mind and how we can improve our gaming score in the future. It’s possible that we can rebalance some of the score components and it would be a better representation of it’s viability as a gaming option. Thanks!

One suggestion would be to find a selection of popular games and give a score based on the percentage of those games being compatible.

On an unrelated note. In the gaming laptop page there is a serviceability score shown. I’m coming here from the best laptops page and I didn’t see it there. I mention this because the only reason I am not buying a macbook is it’s poor serviceability.

Aug 25, 2023 08:27 AM By 0018andrew

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You should reconsider the gaming review part, since gaming on iOS is limited in game titles, like Linux. Most games released for windows, and most games are optimized either Nvidia or AMD. So a number in GPU performance doesn’t indicate that it’s good to play on a MacBook.

Hi Andrew,

I agree that our gaming usage may suggest the MacBook is better than it actually is but it also performed quite well in games that weren’t designed to run on Mac which is impressive. We try to keep a standardized testing suite across laptop which sometimes puts us in a tight corner.

Here it’s tough since the MacBook may lack in GPU and pure gaming but the gaming score also includes other elements that make for a good gaming laptop, like display and thermals. These two are where the MacBook is miles ahead of traditional gaming laptops.

We’ll keep this in mind and how we can improve our gaming score in the future. It’s possible that we can rebalance some of the score components and it would be a better representation of it’s viability as a gaming option.

Thanks!

You should reconsider the gaming review part, since gaming on iOS is limited in game titles, like Linux. Most games released for windows, and most games are optimized either Nvidia or AMD. So a number in GPU performance doesn’t indicate that it’s good to play on a MacBook.

Interested in display response times, and keyboard quality and consistency (particularly any stiff keys, and whether the arrow keys actuate when pressed off center).