 Aha, yes, this is the M1 MacBook 13 Pro and yes, I'm gonna be doing some gaming on it. Hey guys, Thundee here and if you don't know, I do a lot of gaming on this channel so definitely hit that subscribe button, notification icon and you know what, let's start gaming. All right guys, the M1 MacBook Pro 13 is finally here and we've seen a lot of rave reviews from everyone. Dave2D, Matthew Monance, everyone has talked about how good this device is. Well, I've yet to do some gaming on the device and maybe even pump a few bricks as well. So starting off with what I have here, it's 16 gigabytes of RAM, got 512 gigabytes of storage. It's a MacBook 13 Pro 6, it's got a fan built into it as well. Loving display, yes, I know you guys want that wallpaper with dark side and Superman so check out the link in the description and it's also running Big Sur and Big Sur has some nice additives to it. I am not a Mac user, I realize now more than ever I still not a Mac user but I do like some of the additions they had. The notification center is really nice. The way that you have your current apps and what you're running and a preview at the bottom also works out pretty well for me. They're just some things that I just don't like but that's not why we're here. We're here to check out what it does performance wise and we've seen some of the benchmarks and this thing is truly quite interesting and a performance house. So the Cinebench R23 single core test I did mine as well, 1500. It's pretty solid, really, really solid, quite impressive. Now the multicore also was really good, not a doesn't get out desktop processors but again, for Apple's first try this was a really solid game changer. Now you have a system here that is five millimeter chipset in there and we want to take a look at some of the games but before you do that you need to know the kind of applications you can run. So Apple runs two sets of apps on the new MacBook Pro. There is the Universal apps which are apps built specifically to run on this processor. Again, it's a different type of processor. It's not x86 which you have with Intel or AMD. This is ARM similar to what you have on your iPad or your iPhone. So you have to put it in that perspective. And Universal apps on these run like a beast Universal games from Universal. So Ashford 8, brand smooth, no problem. Now I will say though you can play games from the iOS app store and I was able to play games from Apple Arcade quite effectively though some of the games that I downloaded were not part of Arcade but still part of the iOS ecosystem just didn't open. So again, some optimization has to happen there. Just kidding, putting that out. Now when it comes to games or regular PC style games, if you will this is where things are a little different. Now these games are run of legacy application through Rosetta 2 allowing you to play original macOS games on this device. Now I was able to play three games so far. Now just a quick caveat for you guys if you're running anything on Rosetta 2 emulation you're going to have some issues maybe shutdowns. It's to be expected because it's not built natively for this device or this device platform if you will. So the first game was Dianline a much older game available through Steam on the Mac Store and Dianline played well at low settings. Low settings 1400 by 900 which is not the display resolution but much lower. It ran at 60 frames per second, 61 sometimes and it looks pretty good. I had no issues playing the game and it was quite impressive to see Dianline perform. Now granted it's a game that is a couple of years old maybe about seven or so but it was good to see Dianline perform quite well. Now moving over to Shadow of the Tomb Raider this is a game that we've seen that plays on PC and of course on your Mac and I was able to run my benchmarks here because it has a benchmark tool and I ran it on its lowest setting and I was able to get 29 frames per second. So basically something that's playable enough for you to enjoy Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Again low settings. Now I wanted to crank it up just a little bit more and move it to medium. Motion blur is off on both and I would got 24 frames per second not bad and I think something quite solid and playable. So you can play Shadow of the Tomb Raider and I think it is possible but just remember it's gonna be lower settings. Now moving over to a game that Apple probably wish they could showcase I think but of course the legal issues going around but I installed the Epic's Game Store because you can do that and I was able to install Fortnite and Fortnite played really well. Unreal Engine works well on the Mac. I would say I think that's something overall and it also works well on ARM chipsets. So it was good to see Unreal Engine work well here. Lowest settings, 1400 by 900. I got 60 frames per second. Ran well, no slowdowns. I was able to bump into the highest resolution and I was getting about 30 frames per second. So gaming on here as you're playing a game like Fortnite you can play Fortnite well and enjoy it. Not a problem. Now there are some caveats to gaming on this device. So for instance the Epic's Game Store itself ran really slow and also Steam also ran very slow. It was just choppy going through menus. Certain legacy applications like Chrome even ran slow. Granted there is gonna be Chrome for universal apps but Chrome just regular Chrome if you will just ran a bit choppy as well. I also had some shutdowns and one of them was Borderlands 3 which I'm not showing you the game because it could not run for whatever reason. It started up and then it shut down. So again you're gonna face those kind of issues. But I think what it tells me is that it is possible. Now you wonder about temperatures. I was able to play for a while and I got about between, in between some of my gaming sessions I got between 105 which is probably the lowest to about 100 and maybe like 107 or so. And I think that's pretty fine especially for something this thin. The fan did kick in at that time though just because it was running a little bit harder that probably unexpected. I think overall when you look at the M1 MacBook 13 Pro is Apple has come out and said look we can do this ourselves and they've shown they can. And I think this puts everyone on notice. But the big caveat here is that things run well on universal apps. So you've seen videos where video editing is run well because it's a universal app running final cut. And that's the thing that has to make this work and probably will make it work because most developers will switch to universal application because they are not, this is not an x86 machine. And that's the main thing here. When it comes to the performance of the x86 software emulation is really good and the processor can handle those things. Now what I will say for me is the most exciting is that now that Apple has come out and released this bad boy. It means that people like Intel will basically step up their game and give us something much better instead of giving us a 49 and a million chip set for the last couple of years. We know AMD's been moving up as well. So we're gonna see something better from them in the future. And Qualcomm has now put on notice to service more AIM based Windows laptop. So I think this is good for competition as a whole. As a PC user, it's not gonna get me to switch because it still feels like something that I am just very foreign to. But for Mac users, you have a lot of promise here. And I think you're definitely going to enjoy this as more software becomes available, more apps become usable as universal software. Gonna see huge improvements here. So I'm impressed. I'm impressed with what Apple has done. And hopefully that changes gaming on the Mac because it would be nice to see that and maybe we can get more games on here. So if you have any questions or any comments guys, let me know. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.