Name: Gaming on a $200 MacBook
Uploaded: 2017-12-12T13:10:49.000Z
Duration: 5 min 27 s
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I am no stranger to
trying to game on a Mac.

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However, this time, well,
we're taking it up a notch.

This is a $200 MacBook straight from 2009.

so there's no major
scratches on the screen,

It has a 2.3 gigahertz
Intel Core 2 Duo processor,

four gigabytes of RAM, an
Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics.

A step up from integrated
graphics, but not by much.

The rest of the hardware
does feel reasonably modern.

It's running currently
a copy of MacOS Sierra,

although you can update it to High Sierra,

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iPhone to drop the home button.

don't expect to be blowing
through 4K YouTube on this guy.

Watching normal 720p video is no problem.

Because it is running a
modern operating system,

not only do you still
get stuff like patches,

there's even support for things like Siri.

However, the panel
itself really isn't bad.

Yes, it does not get quite
as bright as I would like,

but the color and especially
some of the viewing angles

that I've found on laptops around $200 today.

You're also getting a
good selection of ports,

including not only MagSafe, but Ethernet,

Mini DisplayPort, and a
pair of USB 2.0 ports,

and you get an optical
drive, because 2009.

I have to admit, when I first
had the idea for this video,

I expected this to be
pretty much garbage town.

on basically every piece of tech on Earth,

and it runs just fine here on the MacBook.

Yes, you do have to turn
the graphics settings down.

Especially, you have to
turn the chunk distance

so of course, I have to give CS:GO a try,

I'm gonna give this a solid F for failure.

CS:GO is not MacBook
compatible, at least not a 2009.

However, the main reason I
actually wanted to this video

was a new thing from
Nvidia called GeForce Now.

but a lot of the major
games, such as Dota 2,

Fortnite, Battlefront 2,
you can all play for free,

at least right now during beta on the Mac.

The only catch is that you
actually have to own these games.

The way it works is once you
actually log into GeForce Now,

you log into something
like Steam or Battle.net,

and you can play the games
on your own accounts.

Now, back in CS:GO running in GeForce Now,

I know that there's absolutely
a little bit of latency

that is added, but because
we're over Ethernet

and because we have
fiber here in the office,

it's really hard to see any
kind of major difference.

Next, we have Playerunknown's
Battlegrounds.

This is a game that you
would never be able to run

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Gaming on a $200 MacBook

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