MacBook Vanilla

[IneffibleMind]

Hey guys, I am holding off on buying the lower end macbook for a bit but wanted to see if anyone out there had tried WoW on the base model MacBook?

I think I read that someone was playing it on an iBook and it ran, not exceptionally well, but ran nonetheless.

I am not exactly looking for a mobile gaming station here, just something for when bored in class (gotta love college baby!)


The Intigrated Graphics card (the intel 950) seems be a decent workhorse, anyone care to confirm?

Remember... not talkin any raids or anything, just enough framerates to play the game say round 24~30

[Yixian]

I don't have a MacBook, so I can't give you any empirical answer, however, I know that WoW is a game not so demanding on the gfx card in terms of shaders and aliasing and whatnot, but on the RAM for loading all the many textures and huge areas.

The MacBook performance should be on par with the Intel Mac Mini, and whilst you can't get any of the more advanced graphical features out of that machine, if you're willing to lower the resolution and decrease the draw distance I think you should get playable framerates for sure.

Depends on what you mean by playable though. I had been gaming on an iMac G5, and I thought it's framerates in Doom 3 were "playable", but now I'm running Far Cry on my Intel iMac at full settings with every possible bell and whistle cranked up to "very high" and getting 30-40fps, I'm realising I was putting up with some crappy performance back then.

Anyway, so, my advice is if you want to play WoW on a MacBook, that's fine if you lower the res, the draw distance and you cram it full of RAM. And that's a concervative estimate.