Can It Game? MacBook Pro with Retina Display [2012]

Noble Press: MacBook Pro and its Retina display:

Those of you out there that are clamoring for capital to purchase this glorious piece of technology, bravo you have your head on straight. You also might be asking yourself “if I drop $2,000+ on this laptop can it game?”. Its the exact same question that I had while reading the spec sheet for the new MacBook Pro (with Retina display). Now the reality of it is that the Nvidia GeForce 650M is a powerful card for a laptop and by all accounts it should be able to game. Then you have to take the sheer size of the 2880×1800 display resolution and once you add those numbers into the equation, things get concerning.

Find out if the new MacBook Pro can game on its new Retina Display.

[kevnb]

Might be tough at native res lol.

[mistajeff]

30fps at 1680x1050 in a maxed out Diablo 3.. on a 650M?? That's horrible. This is why apple needs to make a competent API along the lines of directx to actually be able to use that graphics hardware properly. There's no reason to pack that kind of hardware into that thing if the OS won't let applications take anywhere near full advantage of the chip's capabilities. I don't really like apple, but as a gamer I view the ability to play modern games on a Mac as a very good thing because it expands the industry. It's just a shame that apple doesn't seem interested in supporting that beyond its value as a marketing tool for a high PPI display.

[Parallax_Films]

I'd like to see much older games maxed out at it's native resolution. Say like the original Max Payne or GTA: San Andreas. Too bad they won't even support such a high resolution without modding.