![]() ![]() But if you are going to pay top dollar for a laptop, you’d expect to be able to play your games at the maximum screen resolution available on your computer at a reasonably good frame rate. Now don’t get me wrong, 1080p isn’t a bad resolution to play games at since it still looks good. If you try to use a higher screen resolution, you’ll likely experience a drop in frame rates as you try to play your game. So the takeaway here is that if you want to game on the new MacBook Pros, you’ll be stuck at 1080p resolution due to the hardware limitations of these new laptops. I replaced that two years ago with a GTX 970 when the old card started struggling to run games in 1080p. The specs for that card aren’t far off the old Radeon HD 7770, a desktop graphics card I bought for about $200 in 2012. For a little extra weight, you can even get laptops with desktop-level GTX 1070 or 1080 cards, which are hilariously better than the Radeon Pro 400s in the MacBook Pros.Ĭomparing the Pro 400s to desktop graphics cards makes you realize that for a serious workstation running demanding programs on multiple monitors, even the best 15-inch Pro will be underpowered. A quick search throws up numerous 15-inch laptops around the $1,500 mark, which have much more powerful graphics cards, and more RAM and storage to boot. Things get worse when you compare the $2,000+ laptop to other 15-inch Windows laptops, most of which tend to be designed for performance. Higher resolution needs a more powerful graphics card to push all those extra pixels, so to do any gaming on the new Pro, you’ll need to lower the settings or the resolution. That’s a problem, because the 15-inch MacBook Pro’s display is a much higher resolution than 1080[. ![]() …it should mean acceptable performance running something like Photoshop, easy playback of 4K video, or gaming at good settings, but only at a 1080p resolution. Beware the 9 warning signs of bad IT architecture and see why these 10 old-school IT principles still rule. ![]()
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