Well, I was gifted with a Macbook Pro. Hardware-wise this puppy should run anything I could throw at it, but ya know, there ain’t a lot of games written for Macintosh and I don’t want to give up my gaming addi- hobby. I’ve installed bootcamp and Windoze on the separate partition, but the rebooting between is a pain. Anybody know of a way to run Windoze games within OSX?
Yes. It’s a beautiful thing.
I use Parallels. It can create a disk image to run Windows in a virtual
machine, or use the other partition you set up to run Windows at the
same time that MacOS is running. It also allows files to be seamlessly
shared between the OS’s. Very cool.
Parallels is cool. I use Crossover because it doesn’t require an installation of Windows.
Interesting. So it’s kind of like WINE, I guess? Providing the
APIs without having to run the whole OS… Pretty neat.
I, too, use Parallels, though Bootcamp is in place and works. I’ve been a Mac user for 20 years, and keep Windoze up and running for client support.
Most of the support is very basic , so I dont’ have any experience with what kind of performance hit Parallels takes on the virtual environment if games are your thing, but nothing is obvious to me, anyway. They just updated Parallels, too, and performance is something they are saying has improved. Good luck!
Reg
YES! Yes I game on my mac… no I don’t find rebooting a problem. I don’t like to share. 
I was going to get a new PC for gaming since mine is a dinosaur then I had a forehead slapping moment. I’m sitting in front of a Quad-core intel mac pro with the ATI 2600 HD XT and a few gigs of ram.
Not a super extreme gaming rig but its nothing to sneeze at either.
Instant savings!
Now I can spend money on flutes
I don’t recommend Parallels its just easy enough to reboot with the OS you want. I’m up and running either way in about 45 seconds.
I want all the raw horsepower to go to the game and you’ll be wasting it on the Mac OS that you won’t be using while gaming.
I tracked down a OEM copy of XP SP2 and got Bootcamp going in a flash.
The Leopard install disk has all the XPSP2 drivers set up for the Mac hardware. Its all rather seamless.
I pulled down a free copy of Avast anti-virus and Adware and was ready to go.
Right now I’m playing Crysis on next to highest setting it will let me have save the anti alias. Its very smooth and its looks amazing. I haven’t check to see what FPS I’m getting but its got to be high.
Crysis is probably the most graphic intensive game out there right now so all the other games should run extremely well. Combat Flight Simulator and all the IL2 Sturmovic/ACES/PacificFighters cranked up to the highest settings and even a few that you can’t get from the menu 
still gave me high FPS +60 even in the most congested scenes.
Dual Core Macs should get you in the high 20s with Crysis at Medium settings. Still very playable… prolly not the best for Crysis Warhead online.
I’m really tempted to try Vista 64 bit so I can use more ram.
Ram is dirt cheap now.
XP only see 3gb of ram so anymore would be a wasted for windows…
Fun!!!
It’s related to WINE. One of them is built on the other, I think. I can’t remember.
I use crossover games because it’s specifically geared toward gaming, and updates frequently.