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John Voorhees Feb 22, 2023

At WWDC last year, Apple began promoting Macs to developers as a premium videogame platform, showing off 3 titles, only one of which has shipped.

In the meantime, streaming games has become an increasingly viable way to enjoy AAA titles on the Mac.

In fact, NVIDIA's GeForce NOW Ultimate tier, that streams games running on the RTX 4080 GPU is currently the best way to enjoy the most demanding games on any Mac.

My story on @macstories: https://www.macstories.net/stories/the-best-mac-gaming-experience-is-a-pc-sitting-in-a-dallas-data-center/

The Best Mac Gaming Experience Is a PC Sitting in a Dallas Data Center

I’ve seen the future of Mac gaming, and it’s not Metal 3 or Apple silicon. It’s a PC sitting in a Dallas data center with an NVIDIA 4080 GPU. That’s the data center my Mac connects to when I log into GeForce NOW Ultimate, the top tier of NVIDIA’s videogame streaming service. NVIDIA has data

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Paul Stockton Feb 22, 2023

@johnvoorhees @macstories not finished your article yet but if I play mainly first-person shooters where your reaction time and latency has to be as fast as possibly in order to kill the enemy before they kill you, how does this work playing it "remotely"?
Wonder if anyone has done any comprehensive tests frame-by-frame to show what each player sees and reacts to compared to a gaming PC

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alans Feb 22, 2023

@pauls @johnvoorhees @macstories My experience playing Destiny on a MacBook via GeForce Now is that it's probably not quite responsive enough for *competetive* PVP, but fine for casual PVP game modes; and easily good enough for harder, high-level PVE things like GM nightfalls and raids.

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Paul Stockton

@alans that's fair enough and what I'd expect. While I'm not a pro or competitive player I need my gaming PC to ensure I've got the best latency possible otherwise I'd be getting killed first every time!