Macbook - Macbook graphics

ramm · ramm #1 (**permalink**)

05-24-2006, 03:58 PM

Hi there
I was just wondering how well the intel macbook will be able to play games such as the freeware downloadables from apple
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/ ...and certain retail games

Will it be able to play games like age of empires or coc generals? I know I wont be able to play games like doom 3, but I was hoping to play some sort of simple games with the intergrated gpu. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks a lot

surfwax95 · surfwax95 #2 (**permalink**)

05-24-2006, 04:07 PM

If the game is a Universal Binary, I would say that the MacBook could handle most (less graphics intensive) games, such as AoE.

My old Powerbook ran Halo just fine, so I'd imagine a machine with "5 times" the processing power could definitely run, at least, Age of Empires.

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Guest Posts: n/a	05-24-2006, 03:58 PM Hi there I was just wondering how well the intel macbook will be able to play games such as the freeware downloadables from apple http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/ ...and certain retail games Will it be able to play games like age of empires or coc generals? I know I wont be able to play games like doom 3, but I was hoping to play some sort of simple games with the intergrated gpu. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks a lot
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