It's built like a lower-powered, lighter weight 13" Macbook. Theoretically it should work fine with CoH, but not at nearly the highest settings.
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COH plays great on the 13" Air. The newer video card (320M) makes a big difference. The game performs about as well as a MacBook Pro 2.4 core I5. The 13" performs a lot better than the 11" due to the faster processor with x2 the cache. I run on the lowest ultra enabled settings over 802.11n and all is smooth (25-44fps). Turned off geometry buffers because that helped on another laptop. Not sure if it's necessary on the Air. I do have the upgrade to 4 GB RAM, which must be ordered built-in since Air RAM is not user upgradeable.
This is one awesome machine, I use it now as my sole computer (OSX 10.6.5/Win7-64), TV (EyeTV, iTunes, Netflix), etc. I traded in 2 other computers for this one and couldn't be happier.
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Has anyone played COH on the Macbook Air 11" (11.6") model? While I mainly play on my iMac, I would love a light and portable machine that I could use to take over to my friends' house to use for D&D and other roleplaying games. I could have all my gaming stuff in pdf form, plus gaming apps, PLUS while I'm waiting for my friends to put the kid to bed, I could surf or plink around with COH.
The entry model is only a 1.4 core 2 duo but it has the 320M gpu in it. I would think it would do adequately with non-Ultra settings. The 13" would have a 1.86 core 2 duo, but might be bigger and heavier than I'd want. Maybe.
I'm just curious if anyone has tried it.
Lewis
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