Is the macbook good for casual gaming?

I would really like to play some older games when i go to college such as cs:s, call of duty 2, halo and morrowind. I'm interested in tf2, but that might be pushing it. the thing is, i dont mind playing in windowed mode at a decent res and low-med settings. what kind of games will i be able to play. im hoping sc2, like spore, has low min requirements.

thanks

 

If you want a mac and want to game go with the MBP. The MB only has integrated graphics and is usually not reccomended for gaming.

 

i agree with x2p the macbooks specs are to low for cod2 even. do yourself a favor and go with a mbp it has all the horse power u need to run modernish games such as cod4

 

No, the Macbook is a hopeless gaming machine. As mentioned above, the more expensive MBP has a suitable GPU for gaming; but I would recommend a PC for gaming anyways.

 

Also its worth noting apple underclock their graphics cards, so unless you really want the Mac OS, you may find a better deal elsewhere.

 

Neither the x3100 in the Macbook nor the 8600m GT in the MBP is underclocked. I have no clue what you're talking about.

 

Even if it is underclocked, you can just bring it back to normal clock speeds with no problem.

 

you can also bring it well above stock speeds without any problems.

for what its worth, call of duty 2, halo, spore, and star craft 2, can all run in osx natively.

css and tf2 can also run halfway decently in osx through wine (not an emulator).

so you could conceivably drop windows flat out if you got the mbp.

 

It's still plenty fast even at its stock speed, though.

Yes, but at a much slower clip than their Windows counterparts. The difference is startling.

[soapbox]That's one thing that really bugs me because I would rather play cross-platform titles in OS X, but the performance just isn't there. It seems improving OpenGL support is perpetually on the back-burner at Apple. This is something that could easily be fixed, at least on current MBP's by Apple allowing NVIDIA to look at the software so they could write drivers for it. I can't imagine it would take too much re-working of NVIDIA's existing Linux code to get Apple up to snuff.[/soapbox]

I guess it depends on your personal threshold for what is "halfway decent." I tried HL2 and Portal through Wine and Crossover and was not at all pleased with the results.

To the OP, if you want to game, get yourself a MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows to use through BootCamp. That's the only way to go if you want an Apple notebook but still want to play a few games, even if they're older.