Detail the ports that machine has and we can probably point you to a cable to plug your windows laptop to a flat tv screen. Most flat screens have HDMI, if your laptop has that or DVI(looks like pin holes). You could play pc games on your tv.

Inside the industry (and for good reason) the sentiment is Apple are not gaming friendly unless you want to use their closed environment, which means spending way more than you'll recoup in many cases.

I suggest you use Qterminal, or maybe Kitty.

...Console?

Ah, a Mac user. That explains a lot.

Don't play in the closed garden unless you like the feeling of learned helplessness, kid.

I'm kinda interested to get a M1 or M2 laptop for work, but not for gaming. (My colleague had a M1 laptop for work.)

Just interested in its processor architecture, power efficiency and shit.

Even then, I'd be tempted to put Asahi Linux on it.

Nope but I appreciate your attempt
A great starting point, thanks so much for the links

FYI: There is the new M3 coming soon or even just released depending on which model you would like. No upgradability at all so must get the RAM and SSD you want straight away. 20% faster than M2.

Okay so the ports my Mac M1 has are, on the display I have USB-C, and on the Mac Studio itself I have USB-C input and an HDMI




Themkin, thanks but for the type of games (and I'm not sure what they call them for genre) are the type that take some thought and tinkering with locks, doors, gates etc., to open and move on, so I don't think I'll need to upgrade for those types of games. There almost no graphics other than displaying a room or a scene. No shoot em up or explosions

ThemkEn.. But whatever. It is an invented name anyway. I did not know it was an actual name when I made it.

Nothing wrong with those games and yes, no new computer needed for them. Problem is that the games were made for Intel/AMD type of processor and Apple uses ARM/Apple processor but the kind of games you seem to play should work fine if you can translate between MacOS and the games. I know there is such function now but not being a Mac person, not sure how you use it. Is this perhaps the 'console' you mentioned?

That's not a problem. You can run X86 code on Arm, or rather the x86 code is auto-translated to Arm and then run, technically it's transcoded instead of emulated. So x86 apps have a slight delay when first launched, but then the transcoded Arm code is saved and every launch afterward uses it. You can run x86 Windows games using Wine on Arm. Even 32-bit ones (though apparently with some performance issues with 32-bit, but those might have been fixed by now, not sure).

The M-series chips do pretty well with graphics, especially the Pro/Max versions. Much better than typical PC integrated graphics; Apple is essentially using console architecture. That is, no separate VRAM (or fake VRAM as with integrated graphics), instead all RAM is just RAM. This way there's no shuffling data from RAM to VRAM, which can remove bottlenecks and speed things up. Downside is you better be sure about your specs up front (# of CPU cores, # of GPU cores, RAM) because if you change your mind there's no upgradability at all.

Yes, but does the USER have to do anything or is this transcoder programme installed on all Macs and runs automatically? I know the hardware is decent as long as the wrong exstension is not a must have. That should not be a problem for this kind of games though.

I thought it might pop up some kind of console... I am curious but not €3000+ curious about the new Macs.

It's automatic. x86 Mac apps works like normal on Arm, x86 Windows games work like normal on Wine. However Wine itself isn't automatic, that's something you download, various options such as Wineskin/CrossOver/PortingKit which have somewhat different philosophies and ease of use.

Well, as I mentioned. If you want the most options, check your ports for your Windows laptop. Even a cheap walmart hdmi cable can let your use your laptop like a desktop pc. Using the tv remote, find the tv options. Find your way to the hdmi port you will connent between the tv and laptop. Mine has 4. I choose HDMI 1. Plug the cable into port 1, to the hdmi on a laptop. Voila! Done.