Wow on a MacBook pro

[jinkazama]

anybody have experience playing on a MacBook pro? I have a good gaming laptop. Asus g71 but it's so big and bulky and I mainly only use it for school except for when I have a 4hr break in between classes I may hop on wow. Normally no raiding just leveling and randoms. Think it will be good enough for that atleast?

[Cephius]

I've played on a generation-old (2009) 13" macbook pro. It runs fine.

[EternityEnd]

I play it on my Macbook Pro exclusively. Works fine.

I've had a lot of problems with my Macbook Pro in general, though; the fans are broken and the battery lasts 30 seconds off the charger now. :S

[sb]

I fried the motherboard of my macbook pro, most likely from wow, as beside photoshop and live image capture programs, it was probably the most cpu intensive thing I ran on it (fully covered by warranty though so no $ lost ). So keep your WoW settings mid to low, and you should be more than fine, esp if you are not planning on raiding.

Memory helps. While the game is playable I wouldn't really want to be playing with less than 2 gigs. My friend raided on less on his laptop but its just much less laggy with 2 gigs or more.

[m4th_]

i played on my macbook pro (unibody version, 15,4''), added 2gb ram (4gb total) because i started raiding 25men and i didnt want to drop to 5fps everytime.

with the ram increase it looked just fine with mid/high settings.
the most "cpu-sucking" one is the texture details, and as i was on a 15inch screen i didn't really cared much on how detailed the characters were so i turned it off: this helped me to never drop below 25fps (even in dalaran, hooray!).

the only probleam was the heating up.
i had to use a fan setting program, such as smc fan control, and increase the fan speed to 4000/5000 rpm, to keep the temperature around 65/70 C°.

[Korietsu]

Install SMC Fan Control, make sure it runs @ 6k RPM when you're playing games so that you don't overheat. That's the only issue with wow, other than a few client oddites.

[Blabj]

Late '08 MBP, runs fine. I'm interested to know if anyone has used one of the newest generations of MBP (with the i7)... I bet it runs at blazing fast speeds!

[Kaisha]

I played WoW a couple years ago back in college on my series 3,1 MacBook Pro (late 2007), had it running around 30-40fps doing typical solo actives at 1920x1200 with pretty much everything cranked but with AA off.

Granted that was also back before WoTLK and from what I've seen on my brothers account they've added in realtime lighting and a lot of other visual additions. The new lighting alone looks like it'd rape my FPS if it was maxed.

[Mayareira]

Runs great even on early 07 MBP's (first/second gen intels)

[jinkazama]

i ended up getting the MBP 15" with the 4gigs of ram and i5. Havent tried to install wow yet but I hear it runs fairly well