The Intel transition is a big deal for Apple, so it's encouraging to see the company tackling it head-on. What matters to us is that the MacBook running Apple's official XP drivers is a robust, stable gaming platform capable of playing software from either side of the OS wars. While some are predicting this will be the beginning of the end for the Mac platform, the opposite seems to be true, at least anecdotally. At least a dozen platform fence-sitters have told me that the Mac's newfound ability to play PC games has broken down the last barrier to their buying a Mac as their next computer.

Shacker empathe tried out Oblivion on his own Mac as well last week, and he even posted video of the experience.

I'm pretty sure I've never actually owned an Apple product before, but I'll need a new laptop some day, and those Macs are looking mighty attractive...