Does permanent gaming lower my battery life?

Wrong Forum - was supposed to be posted in "Macbook Pro (Late 2008 and 2009)" forums
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2246882&tstart=0
Message was edited by: Tharanon

If your MBP is only going to be used for playing games, sell it and get a game console.
If it's always going to be used in one place, sell it and get an iMac, which will be much more economical.
What you run on your MBP has nothing to do with how long its battery lasts overall (before needing to be replaced); that's determined by how much you use the battery. What you run while drawing power from the battery has everything to do with how long it runs on a charge. 3D action gaming is the most power-hungry use you can make of a computer, and your battery life on a charge will be minimal if you use battery power for gaming. So use AC power when you're gaming, and if you have any use for a computer at other times, run it on battery power then. If gaming is all you do, you don't need a computer at all, let alone a notebook computer.

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