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Will a new MacBook Pro run KSP fine?

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Hello, this is rdude71, and I was wondering if you guys might be able to answer my question: I am currently playing KSP on a 2011 MacBook Air that has a 1.6 GHz Intel core i5, 4GB of RAM, a 120GB SSD and a 320 GB external HD, and an Intel HD 3000 graphics chip thingy with 384 MB of memory (I apologize for my rather informal terminology :P ). Anyways, my MBA runs KSP ok, but it only runs without lag on tiny rockets ;.;. I am thinking about getting a better computer, and I want a laptop so it is portable and I can take it with me on trips and stuff. So, a new 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.9 GHz dual-core Intel i7 that can TurboBoost up to 3.6 GHz that has a 4MB L3 cache, 8GB of RAM, and an Intel HD 4000 graphics card would probably run KSP great, right? I'm not very sure, but I figured that the forums might be a good place to check before I buy anything. I might end up building my own PC and get it to run Mac OS X, since I like OS X better than Windows and Linux, but I would prefer to buy a computer rather than build my own. All replies are greatly appreciated! :)

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Leonov

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Hackintosh's are pretty wild.

Getting them to work can be a hassle, Apple doesnt like their OS on anything other than a Mac.

The Macbook should run KSP perfectly fine with decent sized craft.

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There are plenty of arguements agianst apple, most are discussed in this video. Not intending to start a flame-war, just honest comparisons.

Laptops are a very demanding market. The day that tablets can do everything a laptop can do, that will be the day that laptops cease to exist.

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Well, I honestly don't understand why people buy overpriced systems such as Apple's, but lets leave that out of the scope here. The specs you list seem good enough apart from the graphics card. I really, really recommend you look for a laptop that has a dedicated graphics card (ATI or NVidia) and if you do decide to look for something else than Apple you'll probably find that a similar laptop with Windows and a dedicated graphics card costs about half the price on that Macbook.

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OS X is acctully a Unix BSD system, so switching to a Linux Distro would be fairly straight foreward. Look into it, Linux will eventually take over when steam for linux gets released.

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If you're wanting to go with a MacBook Pro make sure you get the 15" model. It has two graphics cards. The same Intel HD 4000 as the 13" plus a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1 GB of GDDR5 when things get a little demanding :)

I personally own the 15" MacBook Pro Retina Display and it runs KSP just fine. 300-400 part ships with noticeable lag but not fun ruining :)

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i have the 13" retina MacBook Pro and it works fine too.

The two external screens I have daisy chained together was probably the culprit. I need that extra graphics card :)

But besides the point macs are pretty decent at gaming. Not the best, but not the worst.

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Ok, I'll make sure to get a 15" instead. Also, I think I heard it doesn't , but can KSP use multiple cores? Canopus also said that a 13" Retina MBP runs KSP good, and it doesn't have a dedicated GPU, but it is probably not as fast as a 15" though.

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Ok, I'll make sure to get a 15" instead. Also, I think I heard it doesn't , but can KSP use multiple cores? Canopus also said that a 13" Retina MBP runs KSP good, and it doesn't have a dedicated GPU, but it is probably not as fast as a 15" though.

15" is WAY faster than the 13" Macbook Pro. And KSP is limited to one core at the moment.

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