Will the macbook air 2GB be able to play World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm?
Would the new MacBook Air 13" 2010 with 2BG of memory be able to run World of Warcraft: Cataclysm smoothly -on lower settings, of course-?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
If game play is your primary usage I'd even consider PC laptops. Just cheaper and beefier hardware in general. Odd to talk about Dell on apple board but Alienware makes good game laptop. http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5548&review=alienwarem11x+ultraportable+gamingnotebook
Even Macs show faster graphics under bootcamp windows. For example my mac pro with nvidia quadroFX5600 shows 24fps on mac side and 35fps on pc side when I test it with cinebench r11.5. I don't know why but when it comes to openGL graphics performance PCs still has the edge. It could be that GPU drivers are more tightly optimized on PC side (directly by gpu manufacturers) or that MacOS X uses GPU more aggresively for basic OS function (quartz extreme, openCL...), which I don't mind.
Anyway even if you go with Macbook air, you should try out the same game on bootcamp windows side to get a bit more oomph out of it.
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Panics Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: EC06A3BF-5030-432F-8A50-461E4094A91E
Tue Dec 28 13:49:53 2010
panic(cpu 3 caller 0x9cdbfa): NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xc0000000 0x7efb3000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4
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0x921b38d8 : 0x9cdbfa (0xbe32bc 0xc53940 0xbf2424 0x0)
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0x921b39c8 : 0xadf639 (0x9423004 0x100 0x921b39f8 0x9bd6d7)
0x921b39f8 : 0x16de9ce (0x9423004 0x100 0x438004ee 0x550810)
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