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Blizzard, Id, and Valve must be riding on Apple to fix this because 10.6.3 had a large focus on improving OpenGL and driver performance, and supposedly the beta for 10.6.4 does also.

Hopefully its the start of a continuing trend and not just a temporary thing.

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In some ways Apple is really positioned well to facilitate really great 3d graphics performance on the Mac, due to the fact that they only have to support a relatively small number of hardware configs, especially only a few GPUs, and only one 3d graphics API (OpenGL). They just have to give a shit about games for once.

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