As a person who loves the Mac, it’s sometimes hard for me to see Apple yank the platform around. Some years it gets attention heaped on it, while others it plays second fiddle to the iPhone and iPad (even though those platforms are dependent on the Mac for their third party app development). That’s why it’s been so great to watch the pivot to Apple silicon because the Mac we all depend on for our work is getting the hardware it deserves to excel.
But there’s an elephant in the room. The Mac has fallen short consistently when it comes to gaming, and even though Apple’s making moves to improve things, we’ve been down this road before. Sure, the M1 and M2 have decent graphics performance, but the best games Apple can tout in its keynotes and on its website are as much as five years old. The flagship Mac title announced this year—Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding—was released back in 2019 on PlayStation 4.
With Apple silicon, you can no longer dual-boot with Windows to get access to games as they’re released, and Apple has dropped support for external AMD eGPUs on Apple Silicon entirely. But there’s a way to get into computer gaming without spending a fortune, and that’s by grabbing Valve’s Steam Deck.
Read more at Macworld.com