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Apple, make that MacBook better for gaming

by Nicholas Montgomery on Mar 18, 2008 at 01:45 PM

Apple, make that MacBook better for gamingApple, we know you want this gaming market. You showed us numerous iPhone game demos and now have over 20 games for the iPod, but what about the MacBook and computer?

Apple has sold about 5.7 million laptops since the beginning of 2007. MacWorld predicts that a large percentage of the total are MacBooks. More games are appearing on the Mac and when games come to the iPhone with the SDK in June, do you want the halo effect? If the games on the iPhone and iPod Touch are really as good and better when iPhone 2.0 comes out it will be a huge hit in the gaming market. Users may then buy Macs, and will be disappointed, especially with the MacBook. The Mac Mini, MacBook and Macbook Air’s GPU, Graphic Processing Unit, memory is shared with the rest of the system. Integrated graphics on these computers keep them thinner, the weight and price lower - but also the performance. An upgrade to the hardware would definitely help and keep developers happy. Peter Cohen writes that “they’ve moaned and groaned about the system’s inability to run the games they’ve developed or have in the works.”

Will Apple be mainly focusing on iPhone and iPod Touch for gaming?

Via [MacWorld]

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