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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 549952" data-attributes="member: 21101">Well NFS:Carbon is distinctly last gen and of course Crysis can be made to look good on a highly compressed 2 inch window - it may even look 'good' on an iMac screen, until you see what it is supposed to look like on a 8800Ultra SLI - even that gets slow downs on the highest settings.Anti-Aliasing is important if you have a large screen right in front of your nose, and a limited resolution.&nbsp; Oh hang on, that sounds like an iMac!The 2600, in PC gaming terms, is barely adequate for games coming out now, at medium resolutions - arguing otherwise is deceiving people, plain and simple.&nbsp; I think the MBP has a better GPU, pixel for pixel, and that is why it gets such good reviews as a Windows machine, as well as being a Mac.There is a world of difference between the last gen games and the new DX 10 era games being released now - and I think the experience of people who have spent years on PC gaming tells them that the low-end GPU market now, will not support the games of 2008.&nbsp; We've seen this all before..&nbsp; The 2600 and 2400XT are outperformed by top end GPUs that came out in 2005 (6800u for example).Remember that the iMac cannot have its GPU upgraded - so the latest games will become more and more compromised in terms of turning down the quality.&nbsp; Don't buy an iMac for hard-core gaming - get a console.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 549952, member: 21101"] Well NFS:Carbon is distinctly last gen and of course Crysis can be made to look good on a highly compressed 2 inch window - it may even look 'good' on an iMac screen, until you see what it is supposed to look like on a 8800Ultra SLI - even that gets slow downs on the highest settings. Anti-Aliasing is important if you have a large screen right in front of your nose, and a limited resolution. Oh hang on, that sounds like an iMac! The 2600, in PC gaming terms, is barely adequate for games coming out now, at medium resolutions - arguing otherwise is deceiving people, plain and simple. I think the MBP has a better GPU, pixel for pixel, and that is why it gets such good reviews as a Windows machine, as well as being a Mac. There is a world of difference between the last gen games and the new DX 10 era games being released now - and I think the experience of people who have spent years on PC gaming tells them that the low-end GPU market now, will not support the games of 2008. We've seen this all before.. The 2600 and 2400XT are outperformed by top end GPUs that came out in 2005 (6800u for example). Remember that the iMac cannot have its GPU upgraded - so the latest games will become more and more compromised in terms of turning down the quality. Don't buy an iMac for hard-core gaming - get a console. [/QUOTE]

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