Sims 4 mac advice
Hi Simmers! I recently got a MacBook Air (128 GB, 13') and I understand that I won't be able to play Sims 4. Would you recommend downloading bootcamp? I have my windows 7 serial I can download...
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"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.
