Initially, I thought it might be time to switch out my MacBook for the upcoming 2016 model, but the winter reveal wasn’t particularly tempting: CPU performance was about the same as mine and the GPU was - at best - 3 times as powerful. I lived on a strict diet of indie games from 2015 to 2016 - thank goodness for well-tuned titles like Overwatch and The Witness! - but the itch to try games like the new Mirror’s Edge and Deus Ex became too great.
But around the time that the new generation of consoles dropped, AAA games on the PC started becoming unplayable, even at postage-stamp resolutions with the lowest possible settings. My late-2013 15” MacBook Pro’s discrete GPU - an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - was pretty good for gaming during the first year of its life. The setup was just about as painless, though there were a few extra steps to provide the requisite 180W to the card.
Update: Since writing this article, I’ve upgraded to a GTX 1080.
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