it’s a laptop of 1 year old.
it has 16gb ram
GTX 960M
intel i7 2.6Ghz quadcore
when i turned it in for repairs (3 times already, and i will keep trying) they tell me they couldn’t find anything that’s wrong with the laptop, and they tell me to just not open up too many cpu heavy apps. But the laptop just shuts itself down because of overheating when I open up ue4 (sometimes even when it’s still launching, and i didn’t do anything cpu heavy yet). Either there’s something wrong with the hardware, or the hardware hasn’t been tested properly, so it’s just a crappy laptop.
i don’t care if it runs slower than a desktop because it’s a laptop, but it does meet the minimum system requirements of UE4, so it’s supposed to run smoothly enough. it’s at least supposed to get past launching the engine…
Anyway, I’ve bought like 5-6 windows pcs/laptop’s in my life, and they all gave me similar troubles. I’ve only bought one mac in my life and it never gave me a single problem for 6 long years. You can’t blame me for asking if mac is an option for ue4/gamedev. I’m just asking for honest opinions.
But anyway, it seems i’m gonna have to stick with the windows laptop for a while and have another try at getting it repaired, but it’s good to know that iMacs run ue4 “acceptably” for the future if i’m up to buying a new computer again. i don’t care if it’s a bit slower than windows, as long as it’s acceptable, it’s in the end only a hobby.
Thanks for sharing your opinion OptimisticMonkey, good to hear it from someone who actually owns a mac 