Playing major games on MacBook?

I heard mixed answers
For example I was told a macbook can handle the game call of duty2 but not call of duty4. I'm talking the macbook as is, nothing added.

I'm not sure about CoD4, but I run World of Warcraft on mine and it works great, though it is not as complex as CoD. My suggestion is to get a MacBook Pro, which has a better graphics card, and upgrading the RAM as much as you can afford. I have 4Gb which makes everything work great, I think that no matter what model you'll be buying to try and upgrade the RAM if you plan to play any major games.

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    12/14/14 3:50:49.000 PM kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=255 Disabled
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