Apple Mac Mini M1 World of Warcraft Shadowlands Gameplay Quest and BG



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I’m using this Mac Mini M1 since Day 1 and I’m super happy about 4K Video and Photo Editing, but how about gaming at World of Warcraft Shadowlands? With a power consumption around 15W is hard to believe that this small device can run anything, but instead….

Timestamp:

0:00 Intro
1:21 Ardenweald 1080p and 1440p
3:30 Oribos
6:16 The Maw
9:29 Epic Battleground: Wintergrasp
14:14 Multitasking Flex
15:18 Final thoughts and conclusion

The base systems:

Apple Mac mini M1 8GB 512GB SSD
External HDMI Avermedia 4K PCIe Capture Card
Acer Predator X27P 4K 144Hz HDR 1000

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21 thoughts on “Apple Mac Mini M1 World of Warcraft Shadowlands Gameplay Quest and BG”

  1. The M1 is a really impressive chip. It's caused even some people in the PC space to say that arm will be taking over x86 and that it's far superior missing the most important part that the M1 isn't just good because of ARM but more importantly because of Apple's engineers who designed it and built it from the ground up to work with their ecosystem.

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  2. so we can create two different settings setup in the setting menu , one for raid & BGs and the basic one .. i think the setting system can switch manually .. is this Mac with 8g or 7g GPU ? i remember there is two chips to order ?

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  3. I got a base MacMini (8gig ram) back in January. It's absolutely silent and has been promoted to my main machine. It replaced my Sager/Clevo laptop with an i7-8086 (undervolted and turbo disabled so fixed 4ghz), 32gig ram, GTX1080 mobile. The Sager was running the CPU and the GPU at around 80C with fans about 80% all the time and was SO LOUD and it would heat the room!

    My only regret with the Mini is I should have gotten the 16gig model, as running WoW and OBS streaming to Twitch while functional was a bit constrained. 🙂

    I run my Mini with my 1440p 144hz LG 650F monitor. On this display I had to disable free sync, which the Mac doesn't support, and in doing so I was able to set the display in System Preferences from 100hz to 144hz over HDMI, then set WoW to use Vsync. Its perfectly fine for doing Nathria with Discord (which is still Intel binary) just fine.

    My WoW settings I set to graphics 5, Vsync enabled, General (High, Dynamic, Enabled), Environment all 5's, and Effects (Fair, Fair, Low, Fair, Good, Good, Good. I'm going to try raid tomorrow with shadow and liquid set to low instead of fair and see how it goes.

    The Sager now lives in the basement, and I use a remote control software for gaming called Parsec, so I can play SWTOR on it, since that game doesn't run on Mac. Well it does, in a Windows 10 for ARM VM, then installed in the VM, but that's a hassle to run. :-).

    Thanks Sir! Love the content!

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  4. Nice presentation as always:)
    One question I see you don't test with anti aliasing on. You don't play with that option on? I was thinking it makes wow look better.

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  5. what do you think about the 8gb ram? Idk if that's enough but it seems like you made it work pretty well. Thing is, apple charge more money for a single 8gb upgrade than a 32gb binned B-die kit. It's absolutely ridiculous, borderline criminal. They really shouldn't charge more than ~50$ for 8gb of ram and that's already pushing it.

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  6. Really enjoy seeing this type of content for the M1 mac mini, I see a lot of potential in these chips going forward. With the rumored M1X doubling performance cores and GPU cores it would be an entry level gaming PC without any trouble.

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