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Stable Gaming on Santa Rosa Based Macbook Pro

post #1 of 8
7/17/07 at 10:08am
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Hello Folks, I need sort of a confirmation that their santa rosa based Macbook Pro (or non Santa rosa based macbook pro) has successfully been in a game environment in Windows without overheating for more than 30 minutes.

Any help provided would be great.
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post #2 of 8
7/17/07 at 11:14am
You could ask Shazza, she just got a new Santa Rosa MacBook Pro and was running F.E.A.R on it, and you might want to ask her if that was run for quite some time.
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post #3 of 8
7/17/07 at 10:37pm
She.
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post #4 of 8
7/17/07 at 11:22pm
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I PMed her but havent gotten a reply yet, maybe some1 knows her email?
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post #5 of 8
7/18/07 at 6:52am
Hi guys ... sorry for the delay in responding, kaltek. Been busy with grandkids visiting and work stuff.

I haven't had a chance to game extensively on the new MacBook Pro, but I've definitely played LotR online, and GuildWars for an hour or more at a sitting, and I've had no particular issues. The fans do tend to come on, but that's okay with me. And, the notebook heats up to the point where I just put a magazine or book under it when I use it on my lap (usually wearing shorts). This is typical for my other notebooks as well. I do note that this new MBP stays cool during normal use - e.g. surfing and office apps.
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post #6 of 8
7/19/07 at 11:23am
Yes I have gamed on my MBP extensively and it has suprised me in so many ways. WOW plays with everything on high for 4 hours raids eith no problems and run 40 to 60 fps. I have played halo 2, shadowrun and lost planet without no problems and perfectly smooth framerates. I am more satisfied with this notebook then my XPS1710 that it replaced .
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post #7 of 8
7/19/07 at 11:29am
Man, I can't wait until Gears of War OS X drops, see how that runs on OS X as opposed to Windows, then we can really see how the platfrom will do and hopefully might keep some of the nay-sayers quiet, I get so tired of the "Macs don't have any games" argument, as if that is the only thing that computers are used for.
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post #8 of 8
7/19/07 at 2:52pm
I don't know about the future of OSX gaming. I have WOW installed on osx as well as vista and vista consistently gets higher frame rates. I have seen open gl tech demo on WOW for leopard and that looks promising but we will see when its finally released.
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