Turning A Macbook Into A GAMING Machine? NVidia Geforce NOW HD

Quick thanks to NVidia for sposoring this video! If you want more information on this service, check it out here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/mac-pc/waitlist/ Almost a year ago I did a video on the 2016 13in Macbook Pro without touch-bar and tested its gaming performance. I was younger, more naïve, and also not as fat as I am now. Hey siri, set a reminder for me to go on a diet. I gotta lose the man meat. But this isn’t about that, this video is about how there’s a way to play games not normally available on the Mac and without the mess of using Boot Camp or Virtual machines. What I’m talking about is NVidia’s GeForce NOW for Mac. I was emailed by a person representing NVidia to test out this new service they’re offering, a cloud computing service that only requires a piece of software, and the internet to turn your macintosh into a “Game-On-TOSH”. Okay, that was bad. But seriously, this is the actual useful cloud computing, not your group project on google slides that with that one group member who keeps drawing inappropriate body parts. Since the software is in beta NVidia has made it free for apple computers right now, with a “pay-as-you go” pay model in the future. If you’re thinking about checking it out, I’ll have it in the video description down below. What the service essential is, is your mac accesses the horsepower of a NVidia powered computer via the internet and control it using your own computer. Allowing you to play any game you own. What happens on that computer is being sent back to your mac through the internet. Basically, NVidia saw this guy who facetime’d himself with his ps4 and wanted to make it more polished. So, here’s how you get started, First make sure your mac is supported at the link in the description, macs ranging from 2008 to the present currently support it, but again make sure, cause not all models support it. Setting it up was super easy, download the app and install it like any other application, open it up and then the app will analyze the internet speed it will be working with. NVidia requires a 25 Megabits per second download speed and recommends 50 megabits per second while also recommending an Ethernet connection or a 5ghz wireless signal. Then you just sign into your NVidia account or make one. From there you can play any game you actually own. Because if it’s a Blizzard or Steam game, you’re going to have to log into Battle.net or Steam to start playing. Once in game, it acts just like it would on a Windows PC while still giving you access to all the benefits of Mac OS. It’s still in beta and the games look good. It looks just like you were streaming them. I wouldn’t say it looks as good as actually having the hardware to play the games but that may just be my internet speed limiting the potential for this to look even better. There’s a list of games that this currently supports, but they’re not limiting it to only these games, anything in your steam library can