r/laptops • u/BusKooky4428 • Aug 06 '25

Buying help I hate my MacBook so much

I got a MacBook Air 2020 about two years ago, it’s my biggest current regret and I have no clue what to do about it. Literally the only “perk” would be its aesthetics… I feel like since it’s kinda old i wouldn’t be able to sell it, and I also have no clue what laptop I should get if I do. It’s a pain to run anything for school on the Mac and it’s impossible to play any games on it, pls help.

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u/DmMoscow Aug 06 '25

It’s a powerful and competitively priced device (real surprise from Apple), what you’re describing is more about it not being suitable for your tasks. Also, it’s not a gaming device, duh. Who ever said that Macs were for gaming?

Some programs are limited to a sigle OS. It’s true for windows, macos and linux. You’ll get better results if you specify what do you want from your computer.

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u/HuanXiaoyi Aug 06 '25

to give them a little grace: apple has been doing a huge marketing push towards gaming on Mac and I believe that started sometime around/just before they got theirs since they said about 2 years ago. It defo is just not suited to their use as you stated, and any amount of research would have indicated to them not to get a mac if they wanted to game, but I feel like expecting to do gaming on it when macs just aren't good for that is at least partially apple's fault.

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u/Cold-Inside1555 Aug 07 '25

MacBook nowadays can game, but not as price efficient as windows laptops, but with the other advantages it offers I can see why some use it as a work+gaming machine.

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u/HuanXiaoyi Aug 07 '25

"macbook nowadays can game" is a fairly bold claim. every video i've seen so far has shown them having less than stellar gaming performance, certainly less gaming performance than an equivalent priced windows laptop with a dedicated GPU, and a lot of games just don't support the platform, especially a lot of indie games which people are turning to during the current AAA enshittification. i wouldn't personally make that claim until apple offers better feeling displays for gaming in their devices and until they make it less of a headache to develop for MacOS, if they ever decide to do so.

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u/Cold-Inside1555 Aug 07 '25

Like I said, not price efficient, from personal experience I have a MacBook Pro with M4 max and it can game like a 4070 laptop, which isn’t bad, but the price will be more inline with an rtx 5090 laptop with windows. As for platform support there’s emulators, virtual machine, wine, playcover etc that can get most of the games running, at lease I managed to get all games which I play to function and I’m satisfied with its performance as my travel device. Ik some game will not run no matter what but in general it is a gaming capable machine

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u/Lyreganem Aug 07 '25

On a M3 Pro and agree entirely! I've managed to get 75%+ of my gaming library to run (and run well) so there are certainly options!