

That said, I think it's safe to say that games are no more or less "harsh" on your system than these activities unless you abuse your system intentionally.Update: Elden Ring is now out and the recipient of a day-one patch, which in part aims to address the stuttering issue described in the performance section below. as the first responder says, your computer was designed to be used, and Apple computers are designed for people doing very robust things with their computers, like graphic design, photography and video production. They are certainly capable of doing it, and the popularity of gaming has risen substantially.

I think gaming is this is the one area Apple has downplayed in its' computer line far too long. Obviously, the models with dedicated cards are going to outperform, but the integrated cards are getting really decent these days. How well it runs largely depends on the unit. I'm confident that any flavour of Mac built within the last couple of years will have no problem running Blizzard games. Naturally, my 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro that I've outfit with an SSD drive and maxxed the RAM blows it out of the water in terms of framerates and higher settings, but the game is certainly playable on the Air. For the record, I have also installed and successfully played Guild Wars 2 on it. I play these games just fine on lowest settings and get decent framerates. Assuming you have a standard spinning HDD model, the only thing I have that is improved over your unit is my SSD. I play or have played the games you mention on a 2010 baseline MacBook Air, which sports a whopping 2 gigs of RAM, a far inferior integrated graphics card to yours, and much less hard drive space (64 gigs).
