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Apple now calls itself a gaming company fighting with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo
I expect Apple's strategy for Mac gaming on the M1 will largely be via iOS/iPadOS games.
Which isn't completely terrible – the iPad has a pretty decent library of PC and console ports, indie games, board games, and native games, as well as zillion f2p/"mobile" titles which you may or may not care about. And Apple Arcade.
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Compared: 14-inch MacBook Pro vs MSI GP66 Leopard gaming notebook
OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
If games are what you want on your laptop, you will be getting a Windows gaming laptop as there effectively are no games for the Mac (Apple having systematically and intentionally having killed them off by ejecting NVIDIA and not supporting industry standards like Vulkan or 32 bit backward compatibility).Here is a list of some PC and iOS/iPadOS games that have been tested on M1 Macs: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_compatible_games_master_list
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Privacy and security are Apple's top App Store priorities, Tim Cook says
Hedware said:I want developers and their payments shops kept completely away from me.
Shady apps like Facebook demand a phone number for "security" but then use it as a unique identifier for tracking and advertising purposes.
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Compared: 14-inch MacBook Pro vs MSI GP66 Leopard gaming notebook
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Compared: 14-inch MacBook Pro vs MSI GP66 Leopard gaming notebook
mr lizard said:There’s another difference the article doesn’t point out: you can play hundreds of top tier games on the MSI.While you can't (yet) boot ARM Windows natively on the M1 MacBook Pro, you can currently play hundreds of PC games at reduced performance via Crossover, Parallels, and Rosetta 2, and via cloud gaming services such as Xbox Game Pass, Stadia, GeForce Now, Luna, etc..And of course it runs thousands of iOS games (including many PC and console ports) and also supports Apple Arcade, which has some gems. And a handful of games (World of Warcraft) have native macOS M1 versions.In spite of the "in every aspect" byline, I think the focus of the article was hardware rather than software. If we're talking software, the Mac is much better at running macOS and Mac apps without requiring virtualization or hackintosh approaches.