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13" or 15" for Gaming

Hello, all! I just wanted to get everyone's opinion because I'm about to buy a new MacBook Pro in the next few weeks, and I'm considering either the 13" i7 w/ 8GB of RAM or the 15" i7 with 4GB of RAM.


My main question is, which of these should I get because both suffice my need for a computer at work and at home. The only major difference I see (aside from the RAM, HDD, and processor) is the dedicated graphics card of the 15" because I'm going to be doing some gaming on my spare time. The most intensive games I will be playing are The Sims 3, Starcraft II, and probably GTA 4.


I looked at some benchmarks online for the Intel HD Graphcics 4000 vs. Nvidia GeForce GT 650M and I think they only have a difference of ~63. But, don't really understand these too much. Can you guys help me make this decision?


Thanks!

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Posted on Oct 19, 2012 10:45 PM

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Oct 19, 2012 11:34 PM in response to flashdiag

Yep, especially if that's gonna be the primary purpose of the computer.


If you must get a Mac, you need a 15" model for decent graphics performance. The 13" models just have the puny integrated Intel GPU and shared video RAM (vs. the NVidia dedicated GPU and up to 1GB of dedicated VRAM on 15" models). Also brush up on how BootCamp works on the Macs, if you want to get max performance out of the Mac hardware on Windows.


http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/bootcamp/

http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/

13" or 15" for Gaming

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