Do mac's handle graphic's differently?

Ever since I got my macbook a year ago I have been dying to discard my pc's but I have one very large concern. I am a WoW gamer and although it seems to run well on imac's I am concerned that the 512mb graphics card will not be sufficient for the new WoW expansion. Spending 2k on a pc would give me the option of SLI and dual graphic's cards, ( plenty of graphic memory to run the game at max settings and quite a few mod's without a hiccup ), but Mac offers none of this, so I started thinking, maybe the cards are not as good, because Mac's handle graphic's differently than pc's, they don't need all the power? And everyone I have asked, from genius to lover, cannot answer this question for me. Now, let me say that running a G5 and upgrading to a two thousand dollar video card is not an option for me, so, can someone please tell me I can still have my imac, and my WoW too?

yeh, i said in my post i would like to do away with my pc's, meaning i have not as of yet. I am currently looking at the imac. And according to apple, the macpro does not support multiple graphic's cards, nor SLI. and again, going macpro would cost an additional grand just for the box, and two more grand for the 1.5 graphics card, all else is unsupported by apple. So again, I ask, do mac's handle graphic's differently? Nothing else would explain the wimpy graphic's options.

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