Set out your wants/needs from your computer(s), and then find a solution that fits.ĬRTGAMER wrote:For the same price point the PC will have more power then the Mac. IMO, it's a lot more practical to build a gaming desktop, and then see whatever gaming your laptop can manage as a bonus. I'd think that it should do alright for 720p on those games, but I wouldn't say it's especially suited for gaming. Crammed into a thin/light laptop, it'll likely be clocked slower and/or throttled, resulting in worse performance. Anandtech tested it in a desktop setup (mobile CPU, just saying, power and heat were not as limited).and it still fell short of an nvidia 650M, which is a mid range discrete part from 2012. Intel Iris Pro is a nice improvement of their previous integrated graphics, but it's still just integrated graphics. This Ars article explains how an SNES emulator can tax a (mostly) modern machine.
You're talking about simulating the original hardware, which can be extremely demanding, and then running the original program on top of it. When you're talking about emulation though, you're not talking about running that old code.
