Macbook Pro 2011 15 Inch Review
... hardware for many years now. And still new products struggle to run the game at anything beyond 1920×1080 res. I first attempted a run at 1024x 768 pixels, comparing it to last year's outing. Macbook Pro 2010: 41fps (medium) Macbook pro 2011: 57fps (medium) That's pretty good and I actually got a little daring. So I upped the resolution to 1670×1050 (native, BTO), and ran the same tests. Macbook Pro 2011 (native resolution, high): 23 Using the native resolution some gamers may want to divert to medium settings. Still for a laptop these are really decent scores! Company of heroes Games like COH have turned out ... 149 Fahrenheit (idle: 113) This again may or may not tell a lot but in any case the Macbook wasn't complaining and the case felt warm at best. Note though that it's early spring now and things could be different mid-June. But from experience I think everything's just fine. Conclusions The Macbook Pro 2011 is a great upgrade over the previous models. Most changes are internal and it shows. The speed increase is pretty dramatic, making this the first real portable "Mac pro". It comes at a price though. The fantastic unibody design sometimes struggles to keep the hardware at bay ...
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Tags: macbook pro 2011 | 15 inch | high end | robin | apple | review |