Nvidia’s GeForce Now brings 1600p game streaming to M1 MacBooks

Nvidia’s GeForce Now brings 1600p game streaming to M1 MacBooks

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Nvidia's GeForce Now, like Google Stadia, lets you stream PC games to your computer, even if it's not powerful enough to run the titles natively. Nvidia's data centers stream content from the cloud, which means you can do high-level gaming on machines like thin-and-light Windows laptops or even MacBooks. And at a time when finding a modern GPU feels like searching for a unicorn, the idea of game streaming is starting to make even more sense.

There are some caveats, of course. There's bound to be some lag, whether it comes from latency, Internet connectivity issues, or bandwidth overages. And while gaming services like GeForce Now aim to make it easy to run PC games on a Mac, users of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have had to make another sacrifice: resolution.

Nvidia’s GeForce Now brings 1600p game streaming to M1 MacBooks

Dec 10, 2021, 6:39pm UTC
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/nvidias-geforce-now-brings-1600p-game-streaming-to-m1-macbooks/ > Nvidia's GeForce Now, like Google Stadia, lets you stream PC games to your computer, even if it's not powerful enough to run the titles natively. Nvidia's data centers stream content from the cloud, which means you can do high-level gaming on machines like thin-and-light Windows laptops or even MacBooks. And at a time when finding a modern GPU feels like searching for a unicorn, the idea of game streaming is starting to make even more sense. > There are some caveats, of course. There's bound to be some lag, whether it comes from latency, Internet connectivity issues, or bandwidth overages. And while gaming services like GeForce Now aim to make it easy to run PC games on a Mac, users of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have had to make another sacrifice: resolution.