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I was looking at this for StarCraft 2 and Diablo III. Both have conflicting reports. Until they have like 90% success, I couldn't risk spending the money on App

I was looking at this for StarCraft 2 and Diablo III. Both have conflicting reports. Until they have like 90% success, I couldn't risk spending the money on Apple Silicon and not being able to play. I also love playing these (rather older, now) games on modern hardware with very high settings and very fluid framerates. Definitely envy the battery life of the new Macbooks, but until they have proper gaming, I cannot "have my cake and eat it, too." I'm in the middle of trying to find a Ryzen/Geforce/huge battery combo that I like, knowing full well that I'll be lucky to get much more than 4 hours doing non-gaming things off cord (with brightness where I prefer it.)

tosh 6y ago
From what I can tell both run better on the M1 Macs than on previous Macs with integrated GPU (if that helps). Other Blizzard games run extremely well like World of Warcraft, others like StarCraft Remastered do not yet run at all though. I am working on getting more game reports as well as getting the accuracy (& confidence) of the reports up. Perhaps I should add a feature for getting notified once a playability status changes from not playable to playable?
krzyk 6y ago
> I was looking at this for StarCraft 2 SC2 works fine on non-M1 macs, so I assume on M1 it will run even better.
kllrnohj 6y ago
> knowing full well that I'll be lucky to get much more than 4 hours doing non-gaming things off cord (with brightness where I prefer it.) Finding it in stock is a challenge but the Zephyrus G14 is exactly this. RTX 2060 GPU pairs perfectly with a 120hz 1080p display, and it still gets >8 hours on battery doing normal non-gaming stuff
- neogodless 6y ago
  My main problems are: * I don't like when laptops get (too) hot on your lap * Due to a medical condition 144Hz is now the minimum * And my eyes definitely prefer larger screens So I have an HP Omen 15 but I may return it. (I can play older games without getting too warm, but the screen is really good, but not excellent. The barrel port power on the side bothers me about 5 times a day.) And I have a Legion 5 17" on order... which may never arrive. (In which case I hope I still have the Omen.) In either case, the battery life isn't going to be great doing non-gaming things though. But a friend has the G14 and loves it!

tosh 6y ago

From what I can tell both run better on the M1 Macs than on previous Macs with integrated GPU (if that helps). Other Blizzard games run extremely well like World of Warcraft, others like StarCraft Remastered do not yet run at all though. I am working on getting more game reports as well as getting the accuracy (& confidence) of the reports up. Perhaps I should add a feature for getting notified once a playability status changes from not playable to playable?

krzyk 6y ago

> I was looking at this for StarCraft 2 SC2 works fine on non-M1 macs, so I assume on M1 it will run even better.

kllrnohj 6y ago

> knowing full well that I'll be lucky to get much more than 4 hours doing non-gaming things off cord (with brightness where I prefer it.) Finding it in stock is a challenge but the Zephyrus G14 is exactly this. RTX 2060 GPU pairs perfectly with a 120hz 1080p display, and it still gets >8 hours on battery doing normal non-gaming stuff

neogodless 6y ago
My main problems are: * I don't like when laptops get (too) hot on your lap * Due to a medical condition 144Hz is now the minimum * And my eyes definitely prefer larger screens So I have an HP Omen 15 but I may return it. (I can play older games without getting too warm, but the screen is really good, but not excellent. The barrel port power on the side bothers me about 5 times a day.) And I have a Legion 5 17" on order... which may never arrive. (In which case I hope I still have the Omen.) In either case, the battery life isn't going to be great doing non-gaming things though. But a friend has the G14 and loves it!