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Gaming on a Mac? Hell yeah

It's surprisingly workable

Jun 21, 2023
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Diablo IV running on an M1 MacBook Pro (Credit: Aloysius Low/Can Buy or Not)

When it comes to gaming, Mac users usually had it tough. Depending on the developer, there may or may not be ports available. Sure, the situation has improved somewhat with the M1 and M2-powered devices, as Apple allowed them to access and run iOS games.

But that’s not a true authentic experience, as some of these games were designed with touchscreens in mind. However, Apple has been pushing for gaming on Macs recently, with games such as Resident Evil Village and No Man’s Sky running natively and using Apple’s Metal API. Metal is basically an application programming interface that handles how your Mac talk to your GPU.

These games take advantage of the capable M1 and M2 chips, which have been underutilised for the gaming segment. Now to be clear, there probably aren’t a lot of Mac gamers, but it’s a market that could be better served. And honestly, gaming on MacBooks makes sense, since they have excellent batt…

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