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Looks like it’s raining outside, time to fire up the three AAA games available on this thing.

Apple's lack of serious long-term dedication to 3D gaming is such a self-own that makes their 3D gaming benchmarks feel weak & thin.

I'm hopeful the Game Porting Toolkit + advances in this years macOS (Gaming Mode, better support with MoltenVK and SPIRV-Cross, etc) start a publishing shift toward macOS as a target platform, but I can absolutely see Apple taking their foot off the gaming gas pedal again.

Macs are great to run Geforce Now.

And Xbox Cloud

But then... why would you need a Mac? Any PC can do.

Good screen, silent, long battery.

Because I would pay money to not use Windows 11, and the Macbook hardware is generally better than the alternatives.

Really hard to do ios dev on a non mac.

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