Macbook Pro 2011 15 Inch quote

The rumor mill ran wild following the extremely unbelievable Mac Minimum: 1.8fps

Average: 65fps

Maximum: 132

Macbook Pro 2011 15 Inch quote

For no apparent reason, company of Heroes can be run at full and the game still looks terrific. The minimum was 1.8fps, but upon additional investigation this only happened once for a split second. So seemingly the principles was doing something in the background which caused some momentarily instability.

F1 2010

Codemasters' newest racer. I used the newest 1.01 patch (Dx11) and the internal benchmarking tool, which includes a full grid lap nearby the Silverstone circuit. Remember that Dx11 settings are only used in the ultra range.

1680x1050 2xAa

high: 42fps average

ultra: 20fps average

The game operation is really good for a midsized laptop. It should be said though that the fan speed went pretty wild During some of the peak moments. In fact sometimes they sometimes hit 2500+rpm for seemingly no reason. Here are the temp and decibels produced, agreeing to internal readings and an iPhone decibel app.

Temps, fans, noise

To get a good reading I played Civilization 5 (Mac Pro 2011 is a great upgrade over the former models. Most changes are internal and it shows. The speed increase is pretty dramatic, development this the first real conveyable "Mac Pro". It comes at a price though. The wonderful unibody make sometimes struggles to keep the hardware at bay. It should also be noted that they're still very high-priced and that users with shallow pockets could be forced into using Intel graphics. Not a great thing for a 00+ laptop. This single model any way is as good as it gets; despite, in Apple world, now seeing like the run of the mill.

Now to talk your questions. For me 2010 MacBook pro owners shouldn't feel rushed to upgrade, in fact 13-inch gamers shouldn't at all. And yeah you could wait for a redesign, it's all the time possible. But deciding to wait at the beginning of a stock cycle seems like a silly thing to me. It's like saying: yeah I'll wait for the next model 'cuz it will have All things I could wish for. The thing is; that may or may not be the case but consider this: the model after that will be even better. So buy it now (just launched) if you want/need it.

score 4.5/5

MacBook Pro review

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