World of warcraft on mac mini
Mac mini or iMac?
Kiyoshi-thunderhorn1
I’m looking to buy one of the new M4 models when they are released. The iMac appeals to me for the form factor and the screen, but I’m not sure if the performance would be improve on the Mac mini. I’m fully in the Apple ecosystem and don’t play any other computer games, so whichever I choose to get would be solely for whatever is foremost to play wow on a Mac. Would appreciate anyone’s thoughts and experiences with one vs the other
Mugutu-zuljin2
performance will be identical unless you get the m4 pro mac mini, in which case the mac mini will be better
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Kiyoshi-thunderhorn3
Do you think the M4 pro is worth considering? I’m a casual player these days but I do want to get something that will run the game for a decent amount of years. If an iMac is capable of doing so, I find myself leaning in that direction.
MysticalOS-25105254
Pro has double gpu act of regular. M4 is very much baseline. if you truly want it to last a bit, M4 pro is way to go.
you can even leave all in and just become m4 max macbook pro through best buy or other sites that finance over 3 years instead of apples 1. that way you get best of ever
Intel Mac mini Q&A - Revised November 4, 2009
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Is World of Warcraft (WoW) playable on the Intel Mac mini?
Please note that this Q&A was written to refer to Mac mini systems that are powered by Intel GMA 950 graphics (those released prior to the "Early 2009" model on Rally 3, 2009). The "Early 2009" and "Late 2009" Mac mini models are powered by NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics and go beyond the minimum requirements for Nature of Warcraft.
No doubt "playable" would be defined differently by different people. As mentioned elsewhere in the Mac mini "Core" Q&A, the Intel-based system is not really intended to be a "hardcore" gaming system.
A MacWorldeditorial, referring to Apple's marketing of the Intel Mac mini systems as supporting "the latest 3D games", bluntly opines that:
Frankly, that's an assertion I dispute. . . We can play semantic arguments until we're blue in the face about what "latest 3D games" means. But it seems like a lot of our readers, judging from the forum posts made this week, have higher expectationsRecently, the phrase “Mac mini gaming” took on a whole new meaning. That’s because Apple released the M4 and M4 Pro Mac mini desktop computers in a much smaller form factor and with unprecedented performance. Today’s MacBook Air and MacBook Pro user is over the moon about what his new M4 Pro Mac mini can do with World of Warcraft and other games.
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Gamer gears up for action in dual-display setup with new M4 Pro Mac mini
Gamer and Redditor A-Basic-Gamer (“Basic”) showcased the action-ready setup in a post entitled, “New addition to my now complete Mac setup – Mini M4 Pro.” They mentioned to a commenter that they “finally got there” with this setup. After all, reviews for M4 Mac mini iterations, shipped earlier this month, have been revelatory. And that would include Cult of Mac‘s own hands-on review.
In addition to a pair of older MacBooks for personal and work use, Basic just added the tiny but mighty new M4 Pro Mac mini to his setup with two displays, a 34-inch Dell S3422DWG curved 1440p monitor in landscape orientation and, to the right, a super-affordable 24-inch
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Wow on Mac mini m4
Helgis-firemaw1
Hi.
Maybe someone has trial running WoW Classic on Mac mini 2024 m4 (not pro) 16 gb? Will it be possible to play at least on medium settings with fullHD?
Thx.Kayte-earthen-ring2
Yes. It’ll play with no problems at all.
For graphics settings, you might want to twist water quality down and compute effects off (because of how Metal handles this), but otherwise it’ll run like a champ. The M4 is a strong SOC.
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Raijin-earthen-ring3
Yeah, it will engage fine.
The water quality and compute bugs cripple Windows too so it’s not even a Mac exclusive issue. There is also an issue related to transparent particle effects killing fps but, again, this cripples some Windows machines too (usually AMDGPU).
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