The hardware is great but the developers don't care about the platform for games. Many of the games you'll see for Mac are from films that Pixar did (Wall-E, the Incredibles).

And Homeworld 2, but only on OLD OLD systems. This makes me sad.

Sorry but if I compare what GPUs Apple systems have with what I can get for the same price for other systems, it is not that great.

When measuring available video RAM, shader levels and OpenGL version support, Apple systems don't fare that well.

Each of us has different set of use cases when buying a computer.

On my case the CPU/GPU combo vs cost is the number one.

Ah I see your point. They have made the move to non-discrete graphics for their Mac Mini systems as Intel's offerings have improved significantly, but my MacBook has an nVidia 650M in it I think, which does me alright when I reboot to Windows on it.

But then again, I am not really playing modern games so am not really stressing it that much; (having said that, the fans do go mental in it).

I wonder whether it is a vicious circle for gaming on the Mac? Nobody buys a Mac to game on because there's no games on the platform, so developers don't write for Macs because nobody plays games on them etc. etc. etc.