In my experience Macs are absolutely terrible when it comes to gaming and require way more processing power to run games at the same level as PCs. I can't tell you why that is but I'm just going off my own experiences and it may not be the case for you. But the 640M in a PC laptop will barley run D3 efficiently. On a Mac i'm afraid it would not cover it. Who knows it might work for you though. Why do you want a Mac in the first place? If you don't mind me asking?
Mob: what kind of Mac were you trying to game on? Your experience and my experience seem to be very different.
I can run D3 on minimal settings with my early 2008 Macbook Pro. That means I can run D3 with an intel core duo processor and a geforce 8600m card. I can also run other games on low settings just fine (either in OSX or XP Pro)
Thus, the simple answer is YES. You can run D3. Unfortunately I cannot tell you about high settings or whether it will be better than your current 6630. However, there are numerous graphic card comparison tools available online that should help.
Processing power. By this I assume you actually mean graphics processing. This point is entirely dependent on the coding. Blizzard are one of the best game makers when it comes to coding to mac, whilst they do occasionally make mac specific errors they also code specifically for the platform, supporting OpenGL etc etc, and having long term influence to some extent on the platform OpenGL development within Apple. Your comment would hold some truth if you were talking about poorly ported windows games or even worse, Directx games being emulated through Transgamings Cider solution. In that case yeah there is a pretty high processing overhead.
The second issue is specs, not all macs are made the same. I have a 6970M card in my 27" machine and it can handle pretty much anything you throw at it with ultra settings @1080P. This includes things like Battlefield 3 on bootcamp. However I hate running at 1080p and much prefer slightly or moderately lower graphics settings at 1440P. Much crisper and clearer. Blizzard games run either at ultra or very very close (SSAO on Mists of Panderia being the one problem) on native resolution on this machine. Point being that the required resolution is an important factor.
If you are using the lower resolution screen I would think you would be able run D3 on at least mid settings. I would more careful about recommending D3 at native resolution 1440P (27") though at mid settings on that card.
Im mainly talking about the newest genration of imacs. I can choose between NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M or 650M. But i dont know if i would be able to play on this computer. Its a 21.5 inch screen surely the extra GPU power is used to power the screen?
Right now i got a 14 inch laptop with Radeon 6630 (HP Envy 14 2070nr). All im asking really is" will i see better performance than on my laptop?"
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Im really worried if the GPU is to weak the imac im considering is the lowest model.
So... Would i be able to play on high settings if i buy this computer?
Atm im using a laptop with Radeon 6630 graphics.
You're a wizard Harry.....
I can run D3 on minimal settings with my early 2008 Macbook Pro. That means I can run D3 with an intel core duo processor and a geforce 8600m card. I can also run other games on low settings just fine (either in OSX or XP Pro)
Thus, the simple answer is YES. You can run D3. Unfortunately I cannot tell you about high settings or whether it will be better than your current 6630. However, there are numerous graphic card comparison tools available online that should help.
Processing power. By this I assume you actually mean graphics processing. This point is entirely dependent on the coding. Blizzard are one of the best game makers when it comes to coding to mac, whilst they do occasionally make mac specific errors they also code specifically for the platform, supporting OpenGL etc etc, and having long term influence to some extent on the platform OpenGL development within Apple. Your comment would hold some truth if you were talking about poorly ported windows games or even worse, Directx games being emulated through Transgamings Cider solution. In that case yeah there is a pretty high processing overhead.
The second issue is specs, not all macs are made the same. I have a 6970M card in my 27" machine and it can handle pretty much anything you throw at it with ultra settings @1080P. This includes things like Battlefield 3 on bootcamp. However I hate running at 1080p and much prefer slightly or moderately lower graphics settings at 1440P. Much crisper and clearer. Blizzard games run either at ultra or very very close (SSAO on Mists of Panderia being the one problem) on native resolution on this machine. Point being that the required resolution is an important factor.
If you are using the lower resolution screen I would think you would be able run D3 on at least mid settings. I would more careful about recommending D3 at native resolution 1440P (27") though at mid settings on that card.
Right now i got a 14 inch laptop with Radeon 6630 (HP Envy 14 2070nr). All im asking really is" will i see better performance than on my laptop?"
Thanks