The sad part about this, I thought I'd put together a new Mac Mini as a once a m...

thirdsun · on May 22, 2019

Yes, it's a bad idea. At that point I'd suggest

- getting a console, which probably offers the best price/performance ratio

- using something like ASRock's Deskmini A300 which is really affordable and features a GPU capable of light to medium gaming

- or use a proper desktop setup if you don't want to cut any corners

In any case stick to a proper Windows environment for gaming. My daily driver is a Mac Mini, but for gaming I boot up a dedicated Windows box.

swozey · on May 22, 2019

Yeah I do build $1500-2500ish gaming PCs every few years. I game a lot less than I did a decade ago, maybe a few times a month, so I wanted OSX around when I wasn't. But I'm done building hackintoshes. I had a really nice one the last 3 years waiting on the Mini to ever (because we gave up) update and it did. I was really excited to use that with OSX as my daily and flip to Windows + egpu when I gamed. I'm glad I looked into it to verify it ran egpus horribly (if at all). I didn't expect there to be any issues with that. Figured it'd be perfect.

So now instead I've got a "gaming" desktop that sits pretty idle and a MBP again.. like usual.