World of Warcraft on a 13" Retina Macbook Pro

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:46:27 +0000

I stopped playing WoW in 2008, and since I didn’t need Windows for gaming, I ended up putting Fedora (and ultimately Ubuntu) on my old Core 2 Duo desktop. After years of fighting with slow computers, I recently bit the bullet and bought the 13" Retina Macbook Pro (MGX82LL/A). Even though I hadn’t played WoW in years - or any other PC games, for that matter - the gamer in me was still reluctant to go with a computer with no dedicated video card. I’d read up extensively on the Intel Iris 5100 chipset in the Macbook but I couldn’t find anything about its performance in WoW, which was the least-taxing game I could think of.

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World of Warcraft on a 13" Retina Macbook Pro