

That's what the user is paying for, the technology crammed onto the smallest possible logic board.
#Sims 3 mac game store unknown error portable
The MacBooks are pretty and serve their purpose well - to be ultra portable and lightweight. You will drastically shorten the life of your MacBook if you play TS3 on it.Īctually they're getting more powerful with really good GPUs in the 15" and high end iMacs, plenty of RAM, and nice stable storage. We cannot compare specialty use devices like the newer line of MacBooks, or MacBook Airs even, with fully equipped computers like MacBook Pros and iMacs.Ībsolutely agree with and The new MacBooks are very underpowered and don't have a fan to cool them down so severely throttle any app that is demanding graphics and processing power, which the Sims 3 does in spades. The stock processors (CPUs) have also steadily increased in power across the board with each new lineup.

In years past, the stock RAM was always 4 GB and then 2 GB before that on most models and so on backwards through time. You can't even buy a new Mac with less than 8 GB anymore except for the one lowest-end model of the much cheaper Mac Minis. Memory is RAM, what a computer actually uses to run the operating system and programs, and the default configs have always increased the stock RAM over the years. These lighterweight devices that cannot possibly run TS3 properly are built more for cloud usage and cost more precisely because they weigh less and are more easily portable. Hard drive size has nothing to do with how powerful a computer is, but whether it is meant to store and run files locally or operate more from files stored on externals or in the cloud. SSDs are and always have been more expensive than traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD) on both PCs and Macs.
#Sims 3 mac game store unknown error pro
My current MacBook Pro also has a much smaller drive than its predecessors, but it's a Solid State Drive (SSD) and I willingly paid a premium price for that benefit (and I don't play sims games on it).

No, you are I'm afraid confusing hard drive size with memory and possibly computing potential. I have a 2015 Macbook pro, and my brother has the old thicker one, that, for a lesser price, had more memory for example (mine has 250go, his has 500go). That's a thing that bothers me with Apple right now, the computers are less powerful than they used to be but the prices are insanely high.
