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hey guys this is Austin and today we're going to find out can you actually game on a Mac so to find out I have two of the most recent Mac's in front of me so this is the baseline 13-inch model so it has a dual core Core i5 processor 8 gigabytes of memory and integrate iris graphics where I also have a 15 inch maxed out model with the core i7 quad core 16 gigabytes of memory and the dedicated radio on pro 460 graphics obviously no one should go out and buy a Mac as a gaming PC they just don't make sense however what I'm curious about is if you already do have a Mac for whatever reason can you play games on them at all what's kind of cool is that over half of my Steam library actually will work on Mac OS no problem now a couple of things actually have changed on the gaming side of Mac in the last couple years most notably metal so this is very similar to a lower level API such as DirectX 12 on the PC or something like Vulcan and essentially it should allow us to get better performance by abstracting all the stuff in the middle and like the game gives close to the hardware as possible to start with I want to try f1 2016 which does take advantage of metal on the Mac now I'm going to start using the 30 inch MacBook Pro as I feel like this is pretty similar to the Mac's that most people are using so it looks like this works pretty well I don't have a way of testing the exact frame rates but to my eye it looks nice and smooth no like 20 frames or anything dropping too badly so right now I'm using the PlayStation 4 controller which interestingly enough actually works just straight out of the box you literally just pair it via bluetooth and that's it well no you can't go flat out everywhere no no no no no no no okay so maybe you actually can't go flat out everywhere I will say the graphics are not the greatest so we're running at 1280 by 800 but I mean I would say this looks roughly equivalent to something like an Xbox 360 game so it's hard to know exactly how much of a difference metal makes since I should can't turn it off but considering I'm running on integrated graphics this doesn't look bad at all next up we have Minecraft and because of our wonderful dongle life I have to use an adapter but besides that we should get to go so max framerate 60 if you think yep maximum fancy it's pretty much all turned up I guess easy I mean after running Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi I'm really not surprised that anything can run Minecraft but I think the nice thing is is that we're really not losing anything with the MacBook Pro yeah maybe you can do stuff like shaders and whatnot on PC but to be fair a lot of mods in fact I think most of them actually should be just completely fine to run on Mac doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo I was just having fun and then kin started zooming the camera and pointing at my face I feel like that's mate in the video niche kids just go this is another game that I know will run on Mac what I'm curious about is what happens if we actually try to crank up the resolution and setting all right it works but it's traveling dropping some frames to be fit we actually are playing at 2560 by 1600 um it's decent but let's see if we can crank the settings down a little bit oh that's way better so creating the resolution down to 1280 by 800 print immediately fixes all the problems there is a little bit of screen carrying though which is interesting almost immediate I could tell this is usable definitely playable but it's not as nice as it would be on machine running Windows so next we have rocket League again this is another game that natively does support the DualShock 4 so it thinks that we can run it 900p with pretty much everything cranked up so let's give it friend looks like we actually had to print us the full rocket league experience here graphic wise on high it looks pretty nice we've got stuff like the rain and the particle effects and uh needs to get oh how did that happen I am doing seing some framerate drops it's maybe not the smoothest in the world but we definitely do have a lot of room to crank the graphics down if we need to next I want to see how a more powerful Mac handles games so we have the 15 inch pro so the first time I want to try is dark RAF - now exactly a brand new game but it does have support from metal so right now we're running at 650 by 1050 with everything set to high and again it seems to be running nice and smooth which is important for a game like Starcraft so the first thing is actually throwing me off a lot is actually the keyboard the command option control function keys are not remotely in the same spot as they are in Windows so like all my muscle memory is just completely shot right now for example my Escape key is a software key which seems like it would be a big problem especially where game I'm actually kind of like canceling command sometimes but it actually kind of works can the MacBook successfully help me win a game against an easy AI or I get the hard AI yes the answer is I can actually kind of play this nation have shadow of Mordor a couple years old this has been one of my favorite games to benchmark pcs for quite a while and what I remember the port to Mac and Linux is actually pretty decent I realize you do really like shadow of Mordor it kind of feels a little bit like playing like some of the Batman games that's kind of a bit of like a hack and slash like God of War or something but one thing you actually should really be careful of especially with these kind of more high-end games is to make sure that you have a Mac that's going to be compatible lighter stuff like csgo should run on basically anything but a lot of these games specifically do need a dedicated graphics card or quad core processor or something so don't just expect that you can just pick up any game and it's going to work you know am I going to be like 40 guys right now by myself on a macbook pretty proud of that now of course you could run Windows on a Mac via boot camp which will open up pretty much all the games in the universe but that doesn't get around the fact that you should not buy a Mac for gaming so over if you already have one and you want to play a few games it's totally usable so what do you guys think about gaming on a Mac in 2017 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next 11