iMac good for gaming?

[Mint]

I just did a few google searches and found forums with posts from 2007 (so they might of been talking about an older iMac) and they all seemed to be saying that iMacs are terrible for gaming? Could anyone tell me if this particular iMac would be good for gaming?

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...rmationSection

Thanks in advance and +rep.

[Feep]

I wish I had a Mac to game on.

[Flisker]

You can see games for mac/apple stuff here: http://www.apple.com/games/ and http://www.apple.com/games/hardware/index.html

[HotelUser]

Only games I play are Age of Empires and Rise of Nations. Both had a OSX version.

I actually run XP in Parallels and have no problem gaming with that, if need be.

[Recursion]

It's got a 9400M graphics card and a dual core processor, it's not terrible at gaming, but it's not exactly top of the line.

[Barmi]

The most graphics-demanding games will struggle, but I can run CoD4 with no issues. Obviously you need to use some kind of virtualisation software if you want to run a game requiring DirectX, but on the newer Macs (i.e. no Intel GMA chipset) you shouldn't have too many problems.

[HotelUser]

It's got a 9400M graphics card and a dual core processor, it's not terrible at gaming, but it's not exactly top of the line.

There's new iMacs coming out in October, so specifications are subject to change.

[kre8ive]

It's got a 9400M graphics card and a dual core processor, it's not terrible at gaming, but it's not exactly top of the line.

and on that note, i'd go for a dell xps laptop, it is a gaming laptop.

[HotelUser]

and on that note, i'd go for a dell xps laptop, it is a gaming laptop.

That + Windows 7 would be more than amazing.

[Mint]

I'm no elite gamer, I would only be going on games such as Runescape and a few other similar games. I might be playing other more detailed games which is why I made this thread. HotelUser, where can I find out about the new iMac? If you mean this october then I will wait for that one.