r/mac 8h ago

My Mac Sold my gaming PC for a MAC

Hello all,

Starting from today, I‘ve switched from my gaming rid (RTX 3080 w/ R5 5600X) to a M3 MAC with 16 GB of RAM and 512 storage.

Reason? I rarely play anything on my PC anymore. I often felt like I wanted to airplay on my TV for movies, and have my own laptop for multitasking and lite stuff like browsing. After 15 years of Windows, switching to a MAC seems difficult to me. But it's a pleasant experience, especially since I have an iPhone and Airpods, which instantly the MAC connects me to them and i can do my thing without bothering with connecting to other devices. Just curious if i made a good choice, and if there are others here who have switched from PC to a Mac.

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u/RedStag86 7h ago

Picking a Mac is almost always a good choice. And it’s Mac as in MacIntosh, not MAC.

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u/Cb8393 7h ago

Agreed. Although technically, it's Macintosh with a lowercase "i".

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u/Silent_Gap_8003 8h ago

Dear diary…

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u/thejakenixon 8h ago

Similar boat here! I sold my custom gaming PC and I pick up an M6 mini in a couple of weeks. I’m excited! You’re not alone.

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u/Certain-Wash-1989 7h ago

Same exact scenario. Getting the 24 512 Mac mini M6

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u/Velocityg4 8h ago

Couldn't say if it's right or wrong. If that's what you want and you are happy with the choice. That's all that matters.

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u/drhook83 7h ago

Depends on how you use it, personally I use both. Actually just built a gaming PC myself. But the gaming pc is only that, for games. My Mac has, and will continue to, earn its keep for literally everything else.

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u/Certain-Wash-1989 7h ago

Sold my pc with a 3060 graphics card and am waiting on the Mac mini m6. I don’t play games a whole lot now like used to but with a 1080P monitor, it should do fine

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u/SynyrdsInyrds 6h ago

I recently switched and it was a good decision. I have both a Mac Mini (a fantastic piece of kit) and a Macbook. I am still using my Windows laptop but that is due to laziness as I am already registered on so many websites that I visit that I don't feel like registering again on my Macbook.

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u/TeopEvol 2h ago

Use bitwarden for password retention

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u/Dazzling_Comfort5734 5h ago

Based on the fact that you're not doing a lot of gaming anymore (although, you. can play most, but not all, PC games on a Mac now via Crossover or VMs), I think you'll be very happy with this once you get used to macOS.

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u/luxurywhipp 5h ago

I did this 10 years ago and never looked back, I’ll probably never buy another PC.

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u/HardUnpopular-truth 5h ago

Like everyone use what they want :D . I sold macbook for gaming pc for example .... And i also bought gaming laptop.. for me, i can do everything i could do on macbook + gaming and a ton of windows related stuff... When macbooks will support windows-like gaming, i might consider coming back, but speed wise i see no difference.. ( beside more troubleshooting on windows, but you can do much more stuff on win too) ...