Being Able to Play Left 4 Dead 2 or Team Fortress 2

Do they make a mac version for the games that's the big question... if the software company supports Snow Leopard 10.6 then yup, you should be able to play them. Otherwise if it PC based you will need to setup bootcamp with legit copy of windows, install on windows, and yes the specs should be able to run it. But seeing how it is integrated graphics upgrade the memory to 8GB of ram which will only cost you $100 from newegg.com. I also went ahead and upgraded to a 120GB solid state disk from g.skill for even more performance. My computer actually runs WoW pretty well with decent graphic settings but if you want a gaming machine you really should go with the 15 or 17" with the i5 or i7 processor and the dedicated 512mb 330m graphics card with 8gb ram.

Notebooks really arent meant to be gaming machines even with companies like alienware and asus making gaming notebooks. It's not practical... anything gaming creates a crap load of heat and you just cant put the same kind of hardware into a notebook as compared to a desktop.

Not trying to sound like a ** but you are buying the entry level computer that really isn't designed for gaming so as far as gaming is concerned don't expect it to compete with a desk top running 8gb of of ram over clocked to 2.2-2.4 volts, with an ATI 5850 2gb ddr video card, amd quad core or 6 core processor running a raid 0 setup with either 7200 rpm drives or SSD drives.


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Yes. If you are buying a MBP you can play them. I play them on my MBP 13" with 2GB ram and 2.26 GHx Intel core2 duo. Just download Steam from steampowered.com and get rolling.

Be careful as OSX 10.6.6 (most recent update) has been giving a few players some issues with L4D2...