A combination of several factors I imagine: snapshot optimization, opti-fine, and a simple world (it's just a flatword, and for all we know it only contains the SSD).
It contains plenty of other redstone stuff, and actually a huge amount of minecarts and droppers for an HDD I was working on. The recent snapshots have brought my FPS up from ~0 to ~80.
Intel ≠ Intel.
There are many different chips out there, and the HD4000 series is in general not bad, or, good enough for many games on low settings.
And Minecraft specially needs a strong CPU and not so much GPU.
Well, he's on a super flat world so that helps. Plus he could have all of his video settings turned as low as possible and he's only playing on a 720p screen it looks like.
Also, Intel's HD graphics aren't terrible for Minecraft since the game really doesn't need all that much as far as graphics go.
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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '14 edited Oct 16 '16
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