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Tried it on my Core 2 Duo mini today. It sucked. It complains that it doesn't recognize the Windows version of my graphic chipset, and then when I continue it goes full screen with a pixelated image of something and starts flashing. I had to command-Q it to get out.

And as far as the article goes, I don't consider it a valid test when you are running on non-Apple hardware.

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The test results may not be completely definitive, but I think they they bring up an interesting point: now that Apple is getting what it wants (large-scale adoption), how is it going to handle relations with third-parties in a rapidly moving industry such as gaming? As the article points out, the fastest Apple-sanctioned GPU you can buy is a GTX 285. At nearly a year and a half old, that card is ancient from that industry's perspective. OpenGL 3.0? NVIDIA released their 4.0 drivers for Windows / Linux a month ago. As much as we all may recognize that Microsoft has issues, their third party device / driver support is something that Apple could learn from.

As far as I can tell, Apple still doesn't care much about gaming on the Mac. I'm sure they could offer better graphics cards if they wanted to, it's just low on their list of priorities.

Hopefully Steam will get enough people to start using Macs for gaming that Apple feels pressure to start offering decent video card choices.

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