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Unless they want to make macs 3x thicker and throw out battery life it won't happen. People already don't want to develop games for linux, even with the same ha

Unless they want to make macs 3x thicker and throw out battery life it won't happen. People already don't want to develop games for linux, even with the same hardware as on PC, much less try to port to apples special APU's. The power and size required for "serious gaming" GPU's on mobile is far too significant to fit into a mac size at this time. The term "gaming laptop" is a meme - by the time you've spent $2000 on a gaming laptop you've just bought a jet engine the shape of a brick that does half the work of a desktop at double the price and is terrible for productivity outside of specific use cases. (Like presenting 3d renders or something) I suppose you could do it if apple were to support proton, and if amd/Nvidia were to standardize their external GPU implementations such that you can just plug in your egpu and have at it. But afaik they're very expensive and use case fitted.

rowanG077 5y ago
This used to be true but it doesn't reflect reality. Yes if you want to play the latest and greatest games at 4k you do need a gaming laptop. But a lot of games coming out nowadays work pretty good on even Intel iGPUs at full hd medium graphics. I'd wager you could easily game on an M1 if the game has support and you are willing to make some graphics concessions.
novok 5y ago
Apple could do very, very, very well if they targeted the nintendo switch level of 'serious' gaming. And there are many very good games for that segment. They also have all the kids already with iPads & Roblox. There are way more iPads & macbooks out there than there are nintendo switches, and if apple actually made a set of dedicated serious gaming hardware & efforts for the platform they would wipe nintendo on the floor. TBH the macbook air would make a better switch than the switch as far as multiplayer portability goes. The switch screen is too small to play something like smash bros on it with friends, and the 'travel dock' solutions are too clunky IMO.
- Hammershaft 5y ago
  > There are way more iPads & macbooks out there than there are nintendo switches, and if apple actually made a set of dedicated serious gaming hardware & efforts for the platform they would wipe nintendo on the floor. I really doubt it, Apple's model of constant updates requiring constant developer upkeep is incompatible with single purchase games. Only exploitative games as a service with recurring revenue can thrive on a model of endless upkeep. Its a big reason (besides Nintendo's first party quality, an attribute Apple has not demonstrated it is capable of) why the App store is defined by low quality p2w service games.
passivate 5y ago
Its overkill for microsoft word, but its right in line with workstation applications - engineering,programming,content creation, etc all need beefy CPUs and GPUs. They're not really niche. Workstation laptops do sell quite a bit. Gaming laptops overlap with them.
vimacs2 5y ago
Your view of gaming laptops is a couple of years out of date. There are plenty of capable gaming laptops now with slim profiles and while battery life is still not their forte, that's only when they are actually gaming which isn't usually something you engage in without at least being relatively close to an outlet.

rowanG077 5y ago

This used to be true but it doesn't reflect reality. Yes if you want to play the latest and greatest games at 4k you do need a gaming laptop. But a lot of games coming out nowadays work pretty good on even Intel iGPUs at full hd medium graphics. I'd wager you could easily game on an M1 if the game has support and you are willing to make some graphics concessions.

novok 5y ago

Apple could do very, very, very well if they targeted the nintendo switch level of 'serious' gaming. And there are many very good games for that segment. They also have all the kids already with iPads & Roblox. There are way more iPads & macbooks out there than there are nintendo switches, and if apple actually made a set of dedicated serious gaming hardware & efforts for the platform they would wipe nintendo on the floor. TBH the macbook air would make a better switch than the switch as far as multiplayer portability goes. The switch screen is too small to play something like smash bros on it with friends, and the 'travel dock' solutions are too clunky IMO.

Hammershaft 5y ago
> There are way more iPads & macbooks out there than there are nintendo switches, and if apple actually made a set of dedicated serious gaming hardware & efforts for the platform they would wipe nintendo on the floor. I really doubt it, Apple's model of constant updates requiring constant developer upkeep is incompatible with single purchase games. Only exploitative games as a service with recurring revenue can thrive on a model of endless upkeep. Its a big reason (besides Nintendo's first party quality, an attribute Apple has not demonstrated it is capable of) why the App store is defined by low quality p2w service games.

passivate 5y ago

Its overkill for microsoft word, but its right in line with workstation applications - engineering,programming,content creation, etc all need beefy CPUs and GPUs. They're not really niche. Workstation laptops do sell quite a bit. Gaming laptops overlap with them.

vimacs2 5y ago

Your view of gaming laptops is a couple of years out of date. There are plenty of capable gaming laptops now with slim profiles and while battery life is still not their forte, that's only when they are actually gaming which isn't usually something you engage in without at least being relatively close to an outlet.