Gaming on a $200 MacBook #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin I am no stranger

to trying to game on a Mac over this

time well we're taking it up a notch

this is a two hundred dollar MacBook

straight from 2009 to be clear this is a

terrible idea but also I don't really

care so this MacBook is straight from

ebay and it has had a bit of a hard life

the inside is actually fairly clean so

there's no major scratches on the screen

the keyboard and trackpad are all clear

however on the exterior of the shell

there's a pretty sizable crack here and

it looks like someone just attacked at

the bottom of it at some points

generally speaking the words Mac and

gaming don't go together when you put

2009 white MacBook together with the

word gaming you usually have a recipe

for some straight garbage towel inside

the specs are well not great it has a

2.3 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

4 gigabytes of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce

9400 m graphics a step up from

integrated graphics but not by much

however it's not all bad the rest of the

hardware does feel reasonably modern so

it's running currently a copy of Mac OS

Sierra although you can't update it to

High Sierra and you've got stuff like

dual band Wi-Fi a good keyboard decent

trackpad it doesn't really feel that

slow so with an only 1280 by 800 display

don't expect to be blowing through 4k

YouTube on this guy watching almost 720p

video is no problem and because it is

running a modern operating system now I

do you still get stuff like patches

there's even support for things like

series with a resolution of 1280 by 800

the screen is definitely low resolution

by today's standards however the panel

of soap really isn't bad yes it does not

get quite as bright as I would like but

the color and especially some of the

viewing angles are a lot better than

other 10 panels that I've found on

laptops around $200 today you're also

getting a good selection of ports

including not only MagSafe but Ethernet

may DisplayPort and a pair of USB 2.0

ports and you get an optical drive

because 2009 I have to admit when I

first had the idea for this video I

expected this to be pretty much garbage

town but it really isn't however the

real test is going to be can I play any

games that

all on it minecraft is a game that runs

on basically every piece of tech on

earth and it runs just fine here on the

MacBook so yes you do have to turn the

graphics settings down especially you

have to return the chunk distance to be

a lot closer but it does work

now steam does work on mac OS so of

course i have to give csgo a try and uh

I'm not expecting good things 16 fps

all right let's uh No

okay so I'm going to give this a solid F

for failure csgo is not MacBook

compatible at least that 2009 over the

main reason I actually wanted to do this

video was a new thing from Nvidia called

GeForce now GeForce now itself isn't new

but what is is the Mac beta so

essentially what we can do here is we

can go through pretty much any game on

Steam and battlenet now they'll support

everything but a lot of the major games

such as dota 2 fortnight battlefront -

you can all play for free at least right

now during beta on the Mac the only

catch is that you actually have to own

these games the way it works is once you

actually log into GeForce now you log

into something like Steam or battlenet

and you can play the games on your own

accounts now back in csgo running in

GeForce now it is a huge difference so

because the computer and the cloud is

doing all the heavy lifting all the

MacBook has to do is essentially just

decode the video and pass through my

mouse and keyboard input over the

Internet I know that there is absolutely

a little bit of latency that is added

but because we're over Ethernet and

because we have fiber here at the office

it's really hard to see any kind of

major difference next we have player

unknowns battlegrounds this is a game

that you would never be able to run on

the MacBook in a million years but here

again it runs pretty well here with

GeForce now it's crazy just how far out

gaming gets come so it feels like not

that long ago that well you could do

stuff like this with like PlayStation

now in GeForce it really relied on

having a crazy good internet connection

without it it was super choppy and

there's a lot of latency even with a

good internet connection but here I mean

yes if I look closely I can see there's

a little bit of a difference as far as

not being able to fully get that sort of

instant response but it is not that

in here oh no no no no yes yes I did it

again overwatch works totally fine dude

I'm really impressed with this I've been

willing to try g-force now for Mac for a

while but there's really nothing to

complain about if you have a good

internet connection and I can't stress

that enough if you don't this is not

going to be as smooth of an experience

but if you do it runs basically just

like you're running it on your actual

MacBook the only real catch here is that

this is for you only in beta at some

point and Vidya is going to come to

their senses and start charging for this

but man as long as it's free it's

essentially like you're getting a free

high powered gaming PC that just happens

to run on a little tiny MacBook so

should you buy a 2009 MacBook to turn

into a gaming PC of course not but if

you want to get into GeForce now while

it's still for free on the Mac this is

not a bad way of going at all this is a

great example of how newer technology

can mean that you don't have to leave

older hardware behind and speaking of

the hardware this MacBook is a lot

better than I thought

most you're considering maybe doing a

few upgrades and doing a part two to

this video so you guys want to see that

let me know in the comments below anyway

guys thank you so much for watching and

I will catch you in the next one