![]() ![]() I have a similar growing interest to electric cars as well, as their electric engines are so much simpler in design and more efficient that the combustion engines. (Microsoft does have ARM-powered Surface Pro "PCs", but Apple has apparently done much better job with their M1 design, being more powerful etc., and MS seems to love the idea of walled gardens as well). I'd just wish PC makers would start adopting such M1-like technologies as well, without the Apple-weaknesses like premium prices and soldering SSDs to the motherboard. ![]() It seems the Apple M1 chipset (and its successors) are very well optimized, even if they still lose in raw power to the above-mentioned monsters. However, laptop gamer that I am, I have a growing interest on newer technologies that are trying to do things more efficiently. Just slap a 5000W power supply to the system and you are fine. If you want maximum gaming performance, no question about it, it still is a desktop PC with some high-end, power-hungry Intel or AMD 16-core CPU and NVidia Geforce RTX 3090 SLI. When people ask who makes the best processor I now have to answer: It depends, as Intel, AMD and Apple all win in some tasks speedwise even if the Macs usually win in power consumption. Themken: Yes, Macs are not bad per se but not that suitable for gaming even if that is improving steadily. I just need to arrange an accident to my current Windows 10 work laptop. More like, "cremium prices"!Īnyway, I still wouldn't mind getting one for a work laptop since then it is not me paying for it. The models with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD cost close to 2000€ here. Or I dunno, maybe they make more money that way from dedicated Apple enthusiasts, but at least it made me think I will definitely NOT buy a M1 Mac with my own money. Booo! I feel that really was a stupid move from Apple. The SSD drive is soldered to the motherboard, so you can't replace it yourself, either to replace a broken SSD, or replace it with a bigger one. I am just excited about the the new chip design that does seem to offer many benefits, like good performance for little power usage / heat generation.Īnd my new colleague that just started at our work asked, and got, one too as his work laptop! Damn, he really is on the edge of modern technology, but then that guy owns a Tesla as well, so.Īnyway, my excitement lowered when I learned that: I am anything but an Apple fan (I generally just dislike their premium prices and embracing the walled-garden philosophy), but I admit M1 Macs did get me somewhat excited, thinking that finally Apple made a product I could see myself buying. Marimba21: And do you think such an enhanced filter for M1 Macs could be added? I presume that when M1 Macs become more commonplace (which I think will happen because they are now on everyone's lips and soooo sexy), both game developers/publishers and stores like Steam and GOG will start taking it more seriously. What is the easiest way to see if a "Mac" game is using DosBox or Wine?Īnd do you think such an enhanced filter for M1 Macs could be added? What I am asking for howver is to have some sort of indication if a game that is declared as "running on Mac", for example when using the Mac filter in GOG Galaxy, is actually running on Wine or Dosbox.Įven better would be if those games would be filtered out and not shown, like changing that filter to "Intel Mac" and "M1 Mac" or something. I don't blame GOG for that problem - you can't expect that Wine would run on that Rosetta2 compatibility layer. Can anyone confirm this, do you see this too with your M1 Macs? For example, Alpha Centauri crashes the Mac to a sort of soft restart - the Mac is not really restarting, but after starting Alpha centauri nothing happens for a while, then the Mac is terminating all running apps, a behaviour I have never seen on Intel Macs. Those games appear to be the ones which use DosBox and/or Wine to run on Intel Macs. I recently got an M1/Silicon Mac and it seems that games that worked before on Intel Macs don't work anymore. ![]()
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