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hey guys this is Austin I am no stranger to trying to game on a Mac over this time well we're taking it up a notch this is a two hundred dollar MacBook straight from 2009 to be clear this is a terrible idea but also I don't really care so this MacBook is straight from ebay and it has had a bit of a hard life the inside is actually fairly clean so there's no major scratches on the screen the keyboard and trackpad are all clear however on the exterior of the shell there's a pretty sizable crack here and it looks like someone just attacked at the bottom of it at some points generally speaking the words Mac and gaming don't go together when you put 2009 white MacBook together with the word gaming you usually have a recipe for some straight garbage towel inside the specs are well not great it has a 2.3 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 m graphics a step up from integrated graphics but not by much however it's not all bad the rest of the hardware does feel reasonably modern so it's running currently a copy of Mac OS Sierra although you can't update it to High Sierra and you've got stuff like dual band Wi-Fi a good keyboard decent trackpad it doesn't really feel that slow so with an only 1280 by 800 display don't expect to be blowing through 4k YouTube on this guy watching almost 720p video is no problem and because it is running a modern operating system now I do you still get stuff like patches there's even support for things like series with a resolution of 1280 by 800 the screen is definitely low resolution by today's standards however the panel of soap really isn't bad yes it does not get quite as bright as I would like but the color and especially some of the viewing angles are a lot better than other 10 panels that I've found on laptops around $200 today you're also getting a good selection of ports including not only MagSafe but Ethernet may DisplayPort and a pair of USB 2.0 ports and you get an optical drive because 2009 I have to admit when I first had the idea for this video I expected this to be pretty much garbage town but it really isn't however the real test is going to be can I play any games that all on it minecraft is a game that runs on basically every piece of tech on earth and it runs just fine here on the MacBook so yes you do have to turn the graphics settings down especially you have to return the chunk distance to be a lot closer but it does work now steam does work on mac OS so of course i have to give csgo a try and uh I'm not expecting good things 16 fps all right let's uh No okay so I'm going to give this a solid F for failure csgo is not MacBook compatible at least that 2009 over the main reason I actually wanted to do this video was a new thing from Nvidia called GeForce now GeForce now itself isn't new but what is is the Mac beta so essentially what we can do here is we can go through pretty much any game on Steam and battlenet now they'll support everything but a lot of the major games such as dota 2 fortnight battlefront - you can all play for free at least right now during beta on the Mac the only catch is that you actually have to own these games the way it works is once you actually log into GeForce now you log into something like Steam or battlenet and you can play the games on your own accounts now back in csgo running in GeForce now it is a huge difference so because the computer and the cloud is doing all the heavy lifting all the MacBook has to do is essentially just decode the video and pass through my mouse and keyboard input over the Internet I know that there is absolutely a little bit of latency that is added but because we're over Ethernet and because we have fiber here at the office it's really hard to see any kind of major difference next we have player unknowns battlegrounds this is a game that you would never be able to run on the MacBook in a million years but here again it runs pretty well here with GeForce now it's crazy just how far out gaming gets come so it feels like not that long ago that well you could do stuff like this with like PlayStation now in GeForce it really relied on having a crazy good internet connection without it it was super choppy and there's a lot of latency even with a good internet connection but here I mean yes if I look closely I can see there's a little bit of a difference as far as not being able to fully get that sort of instant response but it is not that in here oh no no no no yes yes I did it again overwatch works totally fine dude I'm really impressed with this I've been willing to try g-force now for Mac for a while but there's really nothing to complain about if you have a good internet connection and I can't stress that enough if you don't this is not going to be as smooth of an experience but if you do it runs basically just like you're running it on your actual MacBook the only real catch here is that this is for you only in beta at some point and Vidya is going to come to their senses and start charging for this but man as long as it's free it's essentially like you're getting a free high powered gaming PC that just happens to run on a little tiny MacBook so should you buy a 2009 MacBook to turn into a gaming PC of course not but if you want to get into GeForce now while it's still for free on the Mac this is not a bad way of going at all this is a great example of how newer technology can mean that you don't have to leave older hardware behind and speaking of the hardware this MacBook is a lot better than I thought most you're considering maybe doing a few upgrades and doing a part two to this video so you guys want to see that let me know in the comments below anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one