I am going off to college next year, and I want to bring a laptop to school. Lets please not start a flame war, but I want to bring a mac with me. The only thing Windows I personally will miss are my games, specifically CS:S and Battlefield. I was wondering if anyone knew/could link to info about what of the current Macbooks and MacBook Pros out there can handle the games with the hardware they come with (not necessarily at best settings, but at a playable fps).

I was thinking for anything decent I would have to go for the $2500 Macbook Pro, but that's a lot of money to shell out, and I don't want to be responsible for such a pricey piece of merchandise. Can the iBooks, booted up into Windows play CS:S with its hardware at all? At at least 30 fps?

Any info would be amazing. thanks!

Really, you're in the wrong forum to ask for help like that - would have to be a hardware forum... maybe one for laptops?

But... You need to find out what video card/graphics chip is in any of the macs you're considering, then find gaming benchmarks at Tom's or elsewhere for that video card to see how well it runs your game. Pretty much any CPU you get will run the game fine, what's uncertain is how well the graphics will run.

IIRC, most of the mac laptops use Intel integrated graphics, not really gaming graphics. I'm not much of a gamer (my 'gaming capable PC' still runs an Radeon 9600), so I can't help there.

Mike.