Gaming on a macbook pro via windows?

So, with the macbook pro carrying 2.5ghz , 250gb hard drive and an nvidia 8600m gt graphics card, it might pull me over to buy a mac. Thing is, I'm an avid gamer, and wondering if I could still play games on the mac via bootcamp and windows?

Short answer: Yes. The MBP has dedicated graphics and will run most graphic intensive Windows games well. When you buy your MBP, also plan on buying after market memory and upgrade it to 4 Gb. Don't buy the memory from Apple. $$$

Regards.

yes it can run the games fine. but do you really want to buy a mac to run windows on it?

Yea screw windows. Some decent games get ported over to OSX.

I do the same i have a MacBook pro with 4gb ram, runs vista and xp 64 fine mind you its tricky getting 64 bit running. I would just stick with 32bit but you have to remember that xp32 wont run 4gb ram, vista with sp1 will.

I play battlefield 2142 and cod4 fine on my pro just fine. I have the mac version of 2142 and it runs like an old dog.

I would say stick to windows for games

sutt359 said:

I would say stick to windows for games

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I'll go one further - stick to an easily upgradeable PC desktop if gaming is a big deal for you.

Laptops in general do not make good gaming platforms - the MacBook Pro in particular is a bad choice since you can't upgrade the video card. If you're a gamer, I'd recommend building your own PC as a dedicated gaming box.

Well regardless of any laptop you can't upgrade the graphics card. I have a Macbook Pro Santa Rosa 2.4, 4GB's Ram, 200 GB 7200 rpm, and I can run Crysis on Medium, Bioshock on High, its awesome.

Mufasa said:

Well regardless of any laptop you can't upgrade the graphics card. I have a Macbook Pro Santa Rosa 2.4, 4GB's Ram, 200 GB 7200 rpm, and I can run Crysis on Medium, Bioshock on High, its awesome.

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Certain Dell XPS notebooks, Alienware, Voodoo and HP notebooks have upgradeable video cards.

i am looking at getting a macbook pro and putting windows on it JUST for running games. while not AVID gamer i do play pc games and was wondering the same thing. i know it will run, but wondered about performance. thanks for already answering my questions guys.

also i am going to school for web page design and pc game design. will be nice to be able to switch back and forth to check compatibility.

cwa107 said:

Certain Dell XPS notebooks, Alienware, Voodoo and HP notebooks have upgradeable video cards.

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what I meant is that once you buy the machine, the graphics card that you bought it with can't be upgraded later.

That's awesome! And yeah it's definitely a huge advantage over others to have windows and a mac on the same machine. My set up is windows XP pro through bootcamp. I gave the partition 30GBs because I'm an avid tamer just like yourself.

Whenever I want to play a game like need for speed or Crysis, I reboot into XP and play my game. But when I just need to quickly access something though Internet explorer I have VMware fusion installed on my mac installed. It basically grabs my bootcamp partition and launches it on my mac.

Mufasa said:

what I meant is that once you buy the machine, the graphics card that you bought it with can't be upgraded later.

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Actually, they are upgradeable after the sale. They don't use standard formfactors, so you do have to go back to the manufacturer, but they are intended to be user-upgradeable which is part of the allure of these high-end models.