I've never had a mac before, but the mac book air looks so nice and light I'm considering one. Would the standard spec mac book air run supcom2 okay or am I just dreaming? (I'm going to use bootcamp to put windows on there so I can run the windows version.)|||Duncane, please don't become one of those people that buy a mac "because they look nice" you can get a better computer for less money by not buying a mac it can end up looking just as nice.
Whether it'll run or not, I don't know. Check the minimum system requirements and compare them to the mac book's hardware.|||On an Air - I would say dreaming. A Pro should mop the floor with it, but those are about $3k a piece.
There's some really brilliant ASUS and Dell machines that have very similar specs. to Macs.|||Legion Darrath|||duncane|||If you were to turn all settings to the extreme low, I could imagine running Sup Com 2...
Though the question is: Are aesthetics that important?
For the price of a macbook air, you could get a PC laptop that would be able to run Sup Com 2 much better.
Now of course if aesthetics are important(and more or less understandable) then I suppose the macbook air is "reasonable".
In all honesty, the macbook air laptops weren't designed for gaming. They have weak CPU's and weak graphics cards.|||BulletMagnet|||what is your budget, I can help you out since I went laptop searching not too long ago.|||b00m4156|||I want to get a razor labtop as well. Advise on a good PC purchase please.|||The lighter the system, the worse it'll run games. That's the general tradeoff. I would imagine that an Air could run some older SM2.0-3.0 games that aren't too hard on the CPU, but I highly doubt SC2 would qualify.|||1.6 Ghz MB-Air will probably run it under bootcamp with the lowest settings. For comparison, I know someone with a 1.8 Ghz desktop Core2Duo and the sim speed chokes and drops to 0 pretty quickly in 4v4 games. So you're probably going to be limited to 2v2s with the 1.6 Ghz mobile processor.
Another thing to consider is that the MB-Air comes with 64 Gb SSD standard. If you partition it with boot-camp, consider that windows will eat up 7-10 Gb and each game you install on the windows side is 4Gb. With only 64Gb to work with, you're not going to have a lot of room for play. One way to get around this might be to install all your windows programs on an external drive and have that plugged in while you game. Cons for that is that it might not work, and disk transfer speeds will be horrid over USB. You can't install windows to an external drive with bootcamp.
For best bang for your buck, go with the 13" Macbook Pro. That thing lovely, though I'll admit that SC2 on the MB-Air would make me drool. On the PC side, you have the HP Envy (competes against the MBP) and the Samsung Series 9 (competes with top of the line MB-Air)
What do you plan on using the air for? As a main computer? or just something portable for school, ect?|||School? LOL.
If memory serves correctly, Duncane's kid should be having a birthday soon.|||I finished collage (Uni in Oz) back in 1998 and as BM says I have a daughter
dawumyster, You actually give me hope an Mac Air might be okay. I only really play 1v1 or me vs 1 or 2 AIs.
It wont be my main PC. I will mostly be using it for plane journeys and when on travel interstate and on the couch. I only really play supcom2 and CoH plus some older games. So only a few GBs
I'm interested you say lowest settings. I would of thought that would have been more about the gfx card. Maybe I will try to under clock my CPU and see how it runs on 1.8 Ghz.
|||Oooooo the Samsung 9 looks drool worthy http://www.businessreviewusa.com/indust ... -its-money
Plus theres an 11 inch version coming out... its gonna have a Core i3. What do we think of those for running supcom2?|||Not really sure about the core i3 for playing Supcom 2, but in general if I was looking for a gaming laptop, I wouldn't compromise on the processor. The i3 won't scale well if you plan on playing games for more than a year or two on that computer. I would tend to look at a pc as a five year investment. An i7 will be worth the extra cost if you can fit it into the machine.|||duncane|||It would be fairer to compare the i3 with the C4Q at this point in time. The C2D is the last generation equivalent of the i3 and is obviously going to be inferior.
The C4Q runs Supcom 2 fine on my machine on the highest settings in all but the biggest games. I have also heard of people playing it on a C2D though, so you would probably be ok with that computer for Supcom 2. Still, I would recommend something better if you want to use it in the long term.|||Actually, later C2Ds had equal or better individual clock speeds compared to C4Qs, and could overclock far better. The latter might not be relevant to an ultralight notebook discussion, but the former is - a C2D will run most games better than a similar-gen C4Q, because it has higher individual clock speeds for its two cores.
I'm playing SC2 on a single-core, first-gen Athlon64 (2.2ghz) at a very respectively framerate (so long as I avoid 4v4s, of course), so the number of cores is definitely less important than the raw processing power of each core.
What I don't know is whether an i3 core is effectively faster per-clock than a C4Q core. Probably a little? Definitely faster per-clock than this ancient thing. So, maybe a 1.8 dual i3 wouldn't be bad at all for SC2.
Edit: I guess the Air has a 1.8 C2D, and the Samsung 9 has a 1.4 i5/i3? I would think those would both be pretty comparable to each other, and maybe a tiny bit faster than my one CPU, so yeah, not too bad.|||MAC?
SUPREMECOMMANDER2?
WHAT?
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Never mix so much awesome with so much fail, mac is fail, supcom awesome. There is a reaon that supcom1, was a GamesForWindows game!. Go buy a real computer, with twice the speed for half the price!|||You do know SC2 got ported to the mac, right?
Mac's are not pure evil. They have their place. Much like I wouldn't use a shovel to hit a nail. I own both macs and PCs, btw.|||
|||dawumyster|||I actually looked at the specs for an Air 13, and it should run SC2 just fine. The GPU might be borderline on high detail, but even then maybe not - it's a faster chip than what's on an Xbox 360, with more, if somewhat slower memory. A C2D 1.86ghz is really plenty for SC2, as is 2gb (minus 256 for the GPU) of memory.|||Yeah, as is always the case with Apple the processor is usually not the issue.The video card is often a liability so that's what'll usually get you. I don't know how the current gen macbooks are, but I'm running on a current Macbook Pro and it runs flawlessly.
Of course even my 5 year old iMac could run SC2 quite comfortably, so I hope laptops have caught up by now
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