Gaming on MacBook Air

[P3ĮÑ]

So I plan on doing some light gaming on my MacBook Air, I'm mostly on the move and I'd like some opinions what games I can run on, with these specs. Yup! I do have a desktop (a good one) but I just wanna play and do some gaming on my mac here usually when I'm at somehwere and get bored ...so what do u prefer me?

The specs

Inter core i5 1.3 ghz turbo boost to 2.6ghz with L3 shared cache of 3mb
8 gb DDR3 configured memory (RAM)
Integrated graphics, intel HD 5000 (1.5 gig)

The games I'd like to run are some of here.

Cod 4 (mw2)
Doom
Quake
Assassins creed 1 or 2 (even brotherhood lol)
Far cry 2

These are some games I'd like to run (at mid graphics at most) so how would the performance be?

 

[Anonn]

lol. performance would be very weak. Doom and Quake would be possible, but the rest. no.. and for real on an air?

 

[Zenic]

You can easily run all those games at high quality with no lag. You might have trouble running some of the more recent games at high graphics.

You should be able to run Skyrim Ultra high graphics on that laptop.

EDIT: Just saw the specs and um, no...

 

[Anonn]

You can easily run all those games at high quality with no lag. You might have trouble running some of the more recent games at high graphics.

You should be able to run Skyrim Ultra high graphics on that laptop.

EDIT: Just saw the specs and um, no...

LOL. are you serious? even if he had the specs haha no freaking way dude.

 

[P3ĮÑ]

lol. performance would be very weak. Doom and Quake would be possible, but the rest. no.. and for real on an air?

Yes on an air, I already mentioned why, and moreover I had no probs running cod 4 on mid settings, with high textures on my core 2 duo 2,26Ghz MacBook Pro 2010

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With minimal lag overall. Which I tested and played on an integrated HD 3000 intel graphics GPU

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And moreover I've heard cod 4 can run on high setting, on the current air without any lag, saw some vids on it as well regarding performance, and it wasn't all that bad

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Except it can get heated up and decrease performance

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And apparently cod 4 was tested on the original MacBooks and they actually gave a legit performance.

 

[The7thHokage]

It will run em just fine, high im assuming, just go on youtube and check for gaming on macbook air, done the research once for a friend, it wroks just great for a pc with integrated gpu.

 

[Uchiha Rafael]

What do you guys recommend for a good gaming pc?
for around 800 dollars

 

[D R E X]

you should have bought the razer blade . it's as thin as the mac book air but it's for gamers .

you should look it up .

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[D R E X]

What do you guys recommend for a good gaming pc?
for around 800 dollars

You should build one .

for cpu go with the core intel i5 ..i 7 is just for multitasking .

motherboard : Rampage 6 extreme

GPU : gtx 670 .

if you want to know more ..vm me .

 

[P3ĮÑ]

you should have bought the razer blade . it's as thin as the mac book air but it's for gamers .

you should look it up .

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Yeah I've heard about that, seems legit, like I mentioned I already have a legit desktop to runs games, I was only asking whether I can run them on this laptop since I'm mainly on the go. I prefer the MacBooks in general. They're my cup of tea

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