And connection stability

4k high framerate! But the compression algorithm and settings optimize that down to something between 720p and 1080p. With a half second of input latency when factors line up well.

But don't worry, soon there will be AI input prediction so that the game can predict what you'll do and render that before you even do it.

Fast forward 10 years and there's a generation of kids who think that the difference between a video game and a movie/tv show is that video games let you push buttons to look at other things if you get curious while watching. Or that would be the difference, but it's actually that you can look around accurately in VGs while it's more of a "let's see what the AI spits out if I look this way during this scene.... Bahahaha, another dickbutt!"

I'm happy not owning a car and using public transport but there are limits.

Microsoft didn't even need to do that, Apple has become more than happy to show how incompetent they are. Behold:

It's a two way sword.

• On one hand, it sucks that MacBooks only have 2 ports on 13" models and 3 on 15" models (4 for M1)

• On the other, all of the ports do charging, they're all 40gbps USB4/Thunderbolt3, they all do Displayport and HDMI. All the ports do everything. On most other laptops that just isn't the case.

I've had better luck get modern games running on my phone (https://gamenative.app/) than Mac.

Out of genuine curiosity:

What is the most graphically complex game you've got working on a Mac?

FPS?

Resolution?

Hardware?

The downside is macOS lol

I’m a Mac / Linux user and I was forced to use Windows 10 for a couple of hours today. What an absolute ridiculous piece of shit OS that is. I had forgotten how bad it was. Those few hours reawakened my burning hate for Windows. Everything feels convoluted, you are constantly fighting against the OS instead of working with it. Optical drive having read issues? Better freeze the entire GUI. Want to kill a process? haha, fuck you. At one point the frikkin’ task manager froze on me.

For all of its failings, macos is still a very unixy os. If you want to use linux but need to do creative work, macos is a mostly ok compromise. Linux based alternatives are fine for the tech savvy, but aren't a good fit for everyone.

Fwiw, I've got a laptop with an AMD 7945HX and a 4080 mobile, and uh, it doesn't give a shit, it'll run anything on high/ultra. Their market share may not be large, but that's not for lack of putting out a good product.

You can't use proton in Mac? Linux and Mac are both Unix based but I don't know how much they differ

Yeah, like pretty much all computers nowadays. But nobody wants to combine that with cloud gaming for a total of 500ms input lag.

I won't gnash my teeth - If they release the game cloud-only, they officially don't want my money, which only buys games i can archive (Clean Steam Files are fine, the copy protection is more of a formality than a hurdle); same as Denuvo-protected games. A publisher that does this is dead to me.