Ok well my dad is getting me a laptop and wants to get me an Apple Macintosh will the mods still work for the Mac like they do windows 7?

This should be in hardware. If I'm not wrong you'll need bootcamp to even run Oblivion and if you don't have a powerful gaming laptop likely it'll be too weak to run oblivion despite it being an "Older" game.

It's gonna be the newest out and custom built for games it'll run it and I don't even know wat this bootcamp is I have it on my desktop and I don't use it and I do use mods too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BootCamp


And you'll need buy a copy of a Windows operating system disc....it sure doesn't come with a MacBook.

But why Apple? With the price for one of those AND the OS disc combined, you could get a FAR more powerful Windows-based notebook.

Pretty much everything Apple is overpriced and underperforming.


And please don't post multiple threads on the same topic....it's against the rules and only annoys the moderators and everyone else.

I run Oblivion on a Mac Book Pro with a virtual XP. No problems at all, but you get better performance if you run it native (with boot camp).
And by the way, it is very easy to set up boot camp.

can you elaborate on what you mean by custom built for games? I have a 2010 MBP and they are not very customizeable in my experience.

I'd say nothing but MacBook with high-level video card and fast CPU. tl;dr pricier components :shrug:

Also, if that laptop won't see much daylight (you rarely bring it outside) I'd say you better spend the money on PC. My sister's MacBook Pro from 2 years ago can afford me an i7 plus GTX 360

If anything, you can get a 3 GHz processor with that money, and that will make you a very happy camper (for Oblivion, what matters is the clock, not core number)

Even the most expensive MBP configuration you can buy has a relatively weak graphics card for gaming, unfortunately, but unless you plan to run the most demanding mods, it should be fine for Oblivion.

If you want to run newer games, you may need to run them at a lower resolution (not native), or lower settings on the MBP. (Or buy a Windows laptop instead if you want to enjoy the latest games in HD resolution, max detail settings.)

I also have an Envy 15 with dual Intel SSDs, HD5830 GPU and 16GB RAM which cost less than my MBP. It can run about any game on 1920x1080, all detail settings maxed and get at least around 40-60fps for most games if vsync is enabled, much higher for some games without vsync. At 1920x1080, all detail settings maxed, Oblivion stays constantly at 60fps. The most demanding game I tried was Crysis Warhead, which dropped below 30 fps but was still playable frame rates.

The only area I noticed where the MBP seems to do better is with playback of uncompressed or ProRes422 codec 1080p quicktime files. For some reason (probably because Apple created quicktime) the Envy 15 lags a bit while the MBP playback is smoother for these pro resolution quicktime files.