Screw it: what if Apple made a gaming MacBook?

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The best gaming laptops bring high-performance hardware in a portable package to allow you to game everywhere you go (at least as long as their batteries last), so it's obvious that they would be a hit with PC gamers of all stripes. Even dedicated gaming rig builders wouldn't scoff at an Alienware laptop with an RTX 3080 Ti and 32GB RAM, but pretty much every gamer would look at you sideways if you told them to buy MacBook Pro.

Even though many of the best PC games are also the best Mac games, Apple has had a gaming blind spot in its MacBook lineup since the very first iBook was announced in 1999. Over the years, MacBooks and especially MacBook Pros have become more and more categorized as premium, general purpose laptops or professional equipment that treated gaming as an afterthought, if it even considered it at all.

This has allowed the gaming space to be almost entirely filled by Windows PCs and laptops running third-party hardware, which is how things have been for more than 20 years.

That has started to shift, however, and for several reasons. While there hasn't been a Mac gaming revolution (yet), Apple itself has taken an interest in competing in the gaming space for the first time in decades and it has a lot of things going in its favor. 

But PC gaming isn't the kind of thing you can do effectively with half-measures, however, so Apple would need to go big if it plans to make a play for one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world. It has the hardware and the incentive to do so, so what would it look like if Apple said «Screw it, let's do a gaming laptop», and how could it win over skeptical PC gamers?

Some Apple fans will be quick to point out that the current line-up of MacBook Pros make excellent gaming