The browser wars are generally over . Chrome has more extensions and is a battery hog . Safari is generally more efficient and offers the same performance as chrome , with less 3 rd party extension support . <| sep |> It activates on Origin . <| sep |> Do you have the motherboard you linked in your parts list ? If so , that one doesn ' t have an onboard m . 2 connector . It has 3 PCIex 16 slots and one PCIex 1 slot . The x 1 slot is the smaller one between x 161 and x 162 slots . If you want to add an m . 2 drive , you need to have a PCIe m . 2 adapter card which slots in to a PCIex 16 slot . M . 2 requires 4 lanes and you CPU has 16 available . That drops your GPU to x 8 to accommodate the 4 the m . 2 needs . <| sep |> Right but why should a Mac be arbitrarily restricted to stock parts when making comparisons ? Bottom line is that you can set up a good Mac rig for pretty cheap and play everything at really good frame rates . Plus you can run both macOS and windows which PCs can ' t really do hackintoshes are difficult . It isn ' t true at all that Mac is in any way restricted when it comes to gaming . The new MacBook Pro is roughly equivalent to an $ 1800 PC gaming laptop . The myth that all you can play on a Mac is Age of Empires on medium settings is total rubbish .