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macbook video question

post #1 of 11
5/16/06 at 11:47am
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a friend of mine just pointed out that the new macbooks are out which im happy to hear, but im a little hesitant to buy one. if i where to install windows on it, would it be able to run hl2/cs:s on it? the card it uses is a "Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory"....doesnt sound too promising. has anyone ran hl2 on a macbook?
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post #2 of 11
5/16/06 at 11:52am
Considering they were announced like three hours ago, nobody was actually seen a Macbook. From expirience, gaming on a small notebook like this is less than ideal anyway.
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post #3 of 11
5/16/06 at 12:04pm
Im almost sure you can run it, I dont remember how well, but im pretty sure you can.
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post #4 of 11
5/16/06 at 2:36pm
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whoops. i thought the pro used the same video card, my mistake :P
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post #5 of 11
5/16/06 at 3:35pm
you might be able to run it since I am assuming the video card is top quality even for an integrated one, but you probably won't be able to run the games on the highest of settings.
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post #6 of 11
5/16/06 at 4:03pm
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well even if it can run games that arent that high end like cs 1.6/hl1 i'd be happy. im going to call up the apple store and check one out hands on
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post #7 of 11
5/16/06 at 4:04pm
im pretty sure there was a thread about what you could/couldnt run on GMA950
You can try the search function...
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post #8 of 11
5/16/06 at 4:30pm
Weeeeell, if your into game or 3D animation (like myself) Intel GMA monkey balls. That a very low end graphic entry level card . Pay the extra money and go with either Nvidia or ATI.

The GMA are always shared memory or I call steal from the mobo memory. Where dedicated memory will not touch on board memory. Tho one downfall, your battery preformance downgrades with cards like Nvidia/ATI
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post #9 of 11
5/18/06 at 9:05pm
will running xp, improve the graphics for games such as WOW or CS 1.6
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post #10 of 11
5/18/06 at 9:39pm
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well the video runs off of the mobo but since its duel core it could be possible to have one process the video and the other do everything else. as for WOW i dont think the computer can run it and for cs1.6 well....steam is a windows only app.
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post #11 of 11
5/19/06 at 1:14am
Quote:
Originally Posted by beloved84
will running xp, improve the graphics for games such as WOW or CS 1.6


Yes.
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