Sims 4 mac advice

The MacBook Air does not come with a dedicated graphics card and its processor is underpowered for the task. These issues will follow you over to the Windows side if you Bootcamp. You're also not going to be able to create a very large Windows partition if its HD only has 128 GB total to work with. It's not a machine made for gaming; it's strengths are in other areas -- lightweight thus super-portable, the stable Mac OS, great for web surfing, email, light Office type tasks.

If it were a MacBook Pro with better graphics, it would fare much better in the Sims arena.

With such a small ssd, it will be hard to have enough room for two operating systems unless you don't store any media at all on your laptop. Plus the Sims wouldn't play well on it anyway.

I use windows parallels it works fine! Look at the mac section of the forum!

"MALAiA46;12429719" wrote:
I use windows parallels it works fine! Look at the mac section of the forum!

Parallels is a great product also, but for playing graphics oriented games on a MacBook AIR? Am surprised it even runs the Demo well.

Totall off-topic, but thank you whoever it was who gave me my first Spam flag above merely for offering advice on Mac laptops. I was feeling so left out not getting any of those until now. (does happy dance) :D

"igazor;12429661" wrote:
The MacBook Air does not come with a dedicated graphics card and its processor is underpowered for the task. These issues will follow you over to the Windows side if you Bootcamp. You're also not going to be able to create a very large Windows partition if its HD only has 128 GB total to work with. It's not a machine made for gaming; it's strengths are in other areas -- lightweight thus super-portable, the stable Mac OS, great for web surfing, email, light Office type tasks.

If it were a MacBook Pro with better graphics, it would fare much better in the Sims arena.

1) The MacBook Air comes with Intel 5 built into the MacBook. I also had had Intel 5 on my old PC and Sims worked perfectly. The processing power is also fine.

2) I can purchase a hard drive.

"MALAiA46;12429719" wrote:
I use windows parallels it works fine! Look at the mac section of the forum!

Thank you! I will definitely look into this program. :)

"David_Wharton;12429992" wrote:

"igazor;12429661" wrote:
The MacBook Air does not come with a dedicated graphics card and its processor is underpowered for the task. These issues will follow you over to the Windows side if you Bootcamp. You're also not going to be able to create a very large Windows partition if its HD only has 128 GB total to work with. It's not a machine made for gaming; it's strengths are in other areas -- lightweight thus super-portable, the stable Mac OS, great for web surfing, email, light Office type tasks.

If it were a MacBook Pro with better graphics, it would fare much better in the Sims arena.

1) The MacBook Air comes with Intel 5 built into the MacBook. I also had had Intel 5 on my old PC and Sims worked perfectly. The processing power is also fine.

2) I can purchase a hard drive.

The Macbook Air has an i5 but it has a very low speed (1.4 GHz). That's below the minimum requirements for Sims 4 which is 1.8 GHz.

Yes you can purchase an external hard drive but I would recommend against trying to run boot camp off of it as USB hard drives have a slower transfer rate than the built in SSD (which uses PCI-E).

Macbook Airs are a fantastic laptop (I have one myself, the 11 inch) but they are simply not meant for gaming. I strongly advise against it as you would be taxing the system more than it was designed for and would therefore shorten the life of it.

"David_Wharton;12429992" wrote:

1) The MacBook Air comes with Intel 5 built into the MacBook. I also had had Intel 5 on my old PC and Sims worked perfectly. The processing power is also fine.

2) I can purchase a hard drive.

I defer to your experience with the newer integrated graphics. Have admittedly never used that config.

But the current MBA's processor is a 1.4 GHz i5, which does not meet EA's minimum requirements for the game. It may work well in the beginning despite that, but after a few EPs or whatever EA has in store for us in the future, things are going to get dicey there.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't want to put Sims 4 on a laptop, even a Windows laptop unless it was designed for gaming; I would love to get a MacBook Air but I mainly want it for my side job of writing (would be easier to take it to the library for research).

"Processor
1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache
Configurable to 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz) with 4MB shared L3 cache."

Someone explain this to me!