I really wanna buy this laptop but I also want to play Crysis 2 with it...
I'm not looking for extreme performance or graphics,I just want it to be playable 25+ fps.
Have someone tried?

Thanks in Advance,
~stavcas.

why do you want an overpriced POS?

I've got the model before that, so it has the fairly old Core 2 Duo and Nvidia integrated graphics. I've put Windows 7 on it with Parallels, but I've never actually really tried gaming on it. I imagine it will run Crysis 2 decently, at least on the lowest graphics setting. I strongly advise anyone who's concerned with PC gaming against getting a Mac though, unless it's in addition to a Windows machine built for gaming. I've had Macbook Pros for almost 5 years now, but even on my old 17" one from 2007, I could only get a passable-at-best gaming experience with WoW, which isn't exactly a hardware benchmark.

If you have legitimate reasons for wanting a Mac, and you're just looking for the ability to play through a game every now and then, though, I think you'll be able to get by fine with the MBP, even the 13. There ARE reasons that can justify the Apple Tax, just make sure you're not fooled by marketing speak into thinking Apple makes gaming machines. Even the top of the line MacPro has, I believe, Radeon 5750?

Just get a MSI GX660R.

It has an i5 and a 5870m in it.

Indeed, you can't want gaming and a mac. However there's also nothing you can do on a mac you can't do better on PC anyway

Unless you run boot camp on the Mac, you're not going to even be able to boot up Crysis 2. DirectX (The API Crysis 2 uses) is a Microsoft product and it's not supported on the Mac. Macs use OpenGL.

Unless you run boot camp on the Mac, you're not going to even be able to boot up Crysis 2. DirectX (The API Crysis 2 uses) is a Microsoft product and it's not supported on the Mac. Macs use OpenGL.

Yeah, you would think so. But I remember when F1 2010 came out and I was posting on the codemaster forums. There was a guy who was banging on about getting it to work with his mac. Me and load of others lolled, but the program they are using must be a lot more sophisticated than WINE. Otherwise they would only just be getting 2004 games to work.

There are guys getting very recent games working natively under OSX, no emulation, no boot camp. I can't imagine it would work very well, but apparently they seem to get by...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvNaBuPTCe0

I'm playing Crysis 2 on a 2010 13' Macbook Pro on High settings with about 20 - 30 fps. I doubt the 2011 version will be able to handle it.

Wait what? Why would it have worse performance?

Wait what? Why would it have worse performance?

The 2010 MBP 13"'s GeForce 320M was slightly faster than HD 3000 in the 2011 model...(Intel is gay and they don't allow Core-i series CPUs on nVidia chipsets.)

If you buy the 15" with the 6750M you could probably run it at 1440 x 900 though.

thanks guys :]