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Yeah, good points! I bought the machine ~4-5 years ago (can't remember exactly). At that time 8GB was all I needed. I'd like 16GB nowadays but RAM is really expensive nowadays and I didn't run into situations where RAM limited me a lot so far. I do app development etc. using Xcode/Android Studio/Visual Studio with simulators but that runs fine. I just recently bought the GPU which also enabled me to install macOS. It didn't work with the GPU I had before (AMD R9 290). I also have another 256GB SSD where Windows is installed. I'll probably kill Windows and then use this one as a second drive for the Mac. :)

Yep, you're right. A "normal" desktop mac with hardware like a GTX 1070 Ti would be awesome. I hope the new Mac Pro can live up to that.The specs of the 'Mackintosh': Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 (basically i7-3770k without iGPU)8 GB DDR3-1333GTX 1070 Ti256 GB SSD1440p DisplaymacOS High Sierra 10.3.3 with the newest Nvidia DriversGuild Wars 2 runs with pretty much everything on high. Native or supersampling makes no difference therefore the client is CPU-limited for me. It doesn't run as well as on Windows (like I said there's a bit of stutter). Pretty satisfied with the performance though. I'd assume GW2 will run worse when using an external GPU since the CPU is a limit for me and the dual- or quad-cores in MacBook Pros are probably worse.

Just wanted to thank ArenaNet for the Mac Client. I'm using it on a desktop with an i7 and a GTX 1070 Ti. GW2 runs smoothly (>80 FPS during normal PvE maps without a big zerg etc.), there's a bit of stutter but no crashes so far. This means I can now kill my windows machine and use macOS as my only operating system. :)