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Hi, I'm new here and this is going to be pretty long, but I'm really frustrated and feel mislead by Apple. In January of 2012, I paid $1000 bucks for my late 2011 13 in. MacBook Pro with the assumption that it would be able to play games. I don't know much about laptop graphics cards and all that but I do know that at the time of my purchase, apple.com was advertising this MPB's graphic card (intel 3000, i5 2.4ghz) as "able to play games" and, if I remember correctly, even had a picture of a video game ATV quad bursting from the laptop screen to show its capabilities. This led me to believe that what I was purchasing had at least moderate gaming capabilities. Well, now it's 2014 and I just installed Windows 7 for a program I need and thought that I would try Steam out because I wanted to try a couple of games I'd heard about. These games are anywhere from 1-4 years older than my Mac and NONE of them are playable:
- Just cause 2 (2010) Slow even on lowest settings.... unplayable
- Bioshock (2007!!!!) slow and jerky on lowest settings..... not fun
- Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 (2010) slow and ugly on lowest settings, jagged graphics... unplayable
- Batman Arkham Asylum (2009) slow, looked like it was chugging it's way through… unplayable..
I'm assuming the results will be the same regardless of what I try. These games are old and for $1000 and Apple's claim that I could play games, I expected them to work. Is there something I could do to my laptop's settings or have I been screwed over with what I'm now calling false advertising. Also, I just wanted to mention that I never expected this laptop to play games at top of the line graphics or anything like that... Just that it would have moderate ability. I tried to post a question about this in Apple's help community but it was deleted because Apple called it a "rant" and told me that I could contact them by leaving feedback…which they said they won't reply to. lol sorry this is so long, I just feel stuck.. what should I do?
- Just cause 2 (2010) Slow even on lowest settings.... unplayable
- Bioshock (2007!!!!) slow and jerky on lowest settings..... not fun
- Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 (2010) slow and ugly on lowest settings, jagged graphics... unplayable
- Batman Arkham Asylum (2009) slow, looked like it was chugging it's way through… unplayable..
I'm assuming the results will be the same regardless of what I try. These games are old and for $1000 and Apple's claim that I could play games, I expected them to work. Is there something I could do to my laptop's settings or have I been screwed over with what I'm now calling false advertising. Also, I just wanted to mention that I never expected this laptop to play games at top of the line graphics or anything like that... Just that it would have moderate ability. I tried to post a question about this in Apple's help community but it was deleted because Apple called it a "rant" and told me that I could contact them by leaving feedback…which they said they won't reply to. lol sorry this is so long, I just feel stuck.. what should I do?