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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 5079105" data-attributes="member: 149">Yeah, bootcamp is a far, far better solution and cheaper too. Unless you simply want a min-PC for some reason. Most of them have inferior graphics cards (or simply integrated graphics) to what you can get in a 27" iMac (ATI mobile 4850) and thus aren't going to be as good for gaming.The virtualization solutions like Parallels or VMware are not quite there yet for playing games, but are getting closer all the time. Crossover (a mac implementation of the WINE wrapper) is also getting better all the time and is in fact used in porting a number of PC games to the mac like BioShock. Crossover is a bit different from bootcamp or virtualization in that it actually maps system calls/functions like DirectX to the mac OS equivalent. Which has it's advantages and disadvantages. If you do get a 27" iMac you should know that they have apparently been somewhat problematic and the fact that Apple has been listing them as unavailable for a couple of weeks does mean that you might want to wait until they've gotten the bugs out. The hardware on one should be capable of being a pretty decent games machine in any case.</blockquote>