


but I'm just not sure how much longer my mid-2012 (you read that right) Macbook Pro will last especially since it no longer is receiving the latest Mac OS's. I've considered the Intel based 16" Macbooks since they can run slightly more games but they're over 2 grand easily and I'd be pretty bummed to see my potentially $1,800 M1 MBP become obsolete by this fall. Now I'm not trying to buy a Macbook JUST for gaming obviously, I am a streamer and using a capture card and OBS would be nice and as many games as a Macbook could muster but the overall user experience of a Macbook is just really hard to relinquish. Gaming on an M1 Max MacBook Pro may seem like a good idea, but the integrated graphics card, while fairly decent, is simply not supported by the operating system as compared to other alternatives like Windows. But I'm worried that I might have trouble or get frustrated with trying to run various games either through Rosetta or even more complicated means or not being able to run them at all. I am entrenched within the Apple ecosystem so going directly to a straight gaming laptop as my only personal computer might prove difficult for me for everything that's NOT gaming related. A lot of these macs are quad core so they do pack power, just they do a lot running the. The x264 encoding actually works brilliantly for me on my various macs if its the ONLY thing it is doing. What is the state of gaming on an M1 chip MBP these days? Is the software support getting better? Will it not improve notably until the 2nd gen chips this fall? (Rumored). I would just like to say, theres a chance this could perform better if you try the following and are not gaming on the macbook you are streaming from. Hey guys, so I also posted in r/macbookpro about this topic but I figured this subreddit would be even more direct.
