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It would probably run Minecraft fine, especially with optifine. Take a further look around and see you can find a laptop with higher specs. With boxing day coming up you should be able to find some good deals.
Don't use macs, macs are... Just... Ugh. Ipads, sure, Iphones, ya, just not their PC Products.
An 11" Macbook air from 2011 for $300 on Ebay isn't bad at all.
OP, I don't think that for $500 you're going to get a laptop that records very smoothly. Laptops aren't meant for recording games and heavily rendering..
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• CPU: Intel Core i3 4150 @3.5GHz
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• Ram: Kingston Fury HyperX Black 8GB(2x4) @1866MHz
An 11" Macbook air from 2011 for $300 on Ebay isn't bad at all.
OP, I don't think that for $500 you're going to get a laptop that records very smoothly. Laptops aren't meant for recording games and heavily rendering..
Sorry, it's just preference, I pretty much have used Windows all my life, I did try out mac at my old schools, they were terribly slow, but it's because they were low-end tier macs. Another thing is I also feel that most things on the internet forget about Macs, so you're very limited on the 3rd party tools you can use for Minecraft, or things in general. I wasn't mostly talking about performance wise, though. I also don't like the whole 1 mouse button thing, but i'm sure you can put in any mouse in there. It makes some controls on Minecraft a bit tricky.
Sorry, it's just preference, I pretty much have used Windows all my life, I did try out mac at my old schools, they were terribly slow, but it's because they were low-end tier macs. Another thing is I also feel that most things on the internet forget about Macs, so you're very limited on the 3rd party tools you can use for Minecraft, or things in general. I wasn't mostly talking about performance wise, though. I also don't like the whole 1 mouse button thing, but i'm sure you can put in any mouse in there. It makes some controls on Minecraft a bit tricky.
Almost any mouse works. Also on the track pad putting two fingers on it right clicks. Three fingers moves stuff. It is limited, but it's mainly made for content creation, which it's amazing for. The OS is a bit slow I must admit, but on a laptop with a better SSD, it's not bad.
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• CPU: Intel Core i3 4150 @3.5GHz
• Mobo: ASRock H97M Anniversary
• Ram: Kingston Fury HyperX Black 8GB(2x4) @1866MHz
Sorry, it's just preference, I pretty much have used Windows all my life, I did try out mac at my old schools, they were terribly slow, but it's because they were low-end tier macs. Another thing is I also feel that most things on the internet forget about Macs, so you're very limited on the 3rd party tools you can use for Minecraft, or things in general. I wasn't mostly talking about performance wise, though. I also don't like the whole 1 mouse button thing, but i'm sure you can put in any mouse in there. It makes some controls on Minecraft a bit tricky.
My school uses 2007 iMacs, 2011 iMacs in the graphic design classes, and 2011 Dell PCs running Win 8.1. Both the iMacs run pretty well, and they run better than the Dell computers.
Also you can do anything on Mac that you can do on Windows in terms of Minecraft, since they run Java.
My school uses 2007 iMacs, 2011 iMacs in the graphic design classes, and 2011 Dell PCs running Win 8.1. Both the iMacs run pretty well, and they run better than the Dell computers.
Also you can do anything on Mac that you can do on Windows in terms of Minecraft, since they run Java.
Not anything, for things to work on Mac, they must be updated to support it, which Minecraft and Java have done, but one easy example (It'll be here soon, if it hasn't already came) Is Terraria, Re-Logic must give it Mac-support, otherwise it won't work. There are a few tools to bypass this, but are usually buggy or limited.
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Don't use macs, macs are... Just... Ugh. Ipads, sure, Iphones, ya, just not their PC Products.
An 11" Macbook air from 2011 for $300 on Ebay isn't bad at all.
OP, I don't think that for $500 you're going to get a laptop that records very smoothly. Laptops aren't meant for recording games and heavily rendering..
• CPU: Intel Core i3 4150 @3.5GHz
• Mobo: ASRock H97M Anniversary
• Ram: Kingston Fury HyperX Black 8GB(2x4) @1866MHz
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 2GB GDDR5
• PSU: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified
• HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
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Sorry, it's just preference, I pretty much have used Windows all my life, I did try out mac at my old schools, they were terribly slow, but it's because they were low-end tier macs. Another thing is I also feel that most things on the internet forget about Macs, so you're very limited on the 3rd party tools you can use for Minecraft, or things in general. I wasn't mostly talking about performance wise, though. I also don't like the whole 1 mouse button thing, but i'm sure you can put in any mouse in there. It makes some controls on Minecraft a bit tricky.
Almost any mouse works. Also on the track pad putting two fingers on it right clicks. Three fingers moves stuff. It is limited, but it's mainly made for content creation, which it's amazing for. The OS is a bit slow I must admit, but on a laptop with a better SSD, it's not bad.
• CPU: Intel Core i3 4150 @3.5GHz
• Mobo: ASRock H97M Anniversary
• Ram: Kingston Fury HyperX Black 8GB(2x4) @1866MHz
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming 2GB GDDR5
• PSU: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified
• HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
• HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB
• Case: Lian Li PC-50
• Monitor: Acer P221w 22" 1680x1050 60Hz
• Headset: Kingston Fury HyperX Clouds
• Mouse: Razer Deathadder 3.5G 3500DPI
• Keyboard: Cooler Master Storm Quickfire Rapid w/ Cherry MX Blues
My school uses 2007 iMacs, 2011 iMacs in the graphic design classes, and 2011 Dell PCs running Win 8.1. Both the iMacs run pretty well, and they run better than the Dell computers.
Also you can do anything on Mac that you can do on Windows in terms of Minecraft, since they run Java.
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Not anything, for things to work on Mac, they must be updated to support it, which Minecraft and Java have done, but one easy example (It'll be here soon, if it hasn't already came) Is Terraria, Re-Logic must give it Mac-support, otherwise it won't work. There are a few tools to bypass this, but are usually buggy or limited.