Wanting to make the switch to an Apple, but 128MB VRAM is in the way

Question

I'm a Windows user, have been since I got my hands on a computer. I've continued using Windows to cater my gaming hobby, I currently play Counter-Strike: Source and World of Warcraft online on a regular basis. That's it just two games.
My new job allowed me to work with Mac OS X for the first time on one of the new Intel iMacs. From day one I couldn't get over how simple and easy OS X is to use. I just love the software that people make for it too. Always updates coming through with new features to play around with.
I thought the switch to Vista would keep me using Windows, but alas, it has only powered my motivation to 'make the switch'.
So I've decided to sell my gaming rig (that I built from scratch) and replace it with an Apple laptop.
I started looking at the Macbooks first, and was impressed with everything except the lack of a video card. Can't play games without a decent one! Now onto the Macbook Pros, pricey but have everything I want in a laptop. But looking closely, the Macbook 2.2, the one in my price range, actually comes with 128MB less VRAM than the rest.
This 128MB of VRAM is enough to put me off buying a Macbook Pro altogether when other laptops (Dell) come with the 256MB version. Gamers all around have told me 128MB of VRAM is quite a difference when playing games like CS:S and WoW.
I could step up and go for the next model which is the Macbook Pro 2.4, but that's another $800NZD I'm not prepared to pay. $800 all for another 128MB! Of course it has a better chip and more disk space, but I don't need that. All I want is a decent card. I don't want to take the cheaper video solution.
I hope this doesn't sound like a worthless rant, but I really do want a Mac. And because I can't customise like other companies by simply adding a few more dollars to upgrade the video card I find myself swwaying back to a Windows laptop where I'll get that extra grunt to play games.
I feel that Apple have done this so that gamers like myself have to go that extra mile to get a decent graphics solution. My only options are to get a Dell with Windows, which I'm REALLY not keen at all to do - I want Mac OS X! Or to simply wait for the next Macbook Pros to roll in and hope for the best they upgrade that minimum VRAM to 256MB where it should belong.
Can anyone give me some recommendations or just thoughts on what I've written.
- James from New Zealand
Windows Vista

Answer 1

I started looking at the Macbooks first, and was
impressed with everything except the lack of a video
card. Can't play games without a decent one! Now onto
the Macbook Pros, pricey but have everything I want
in a laptop. But looking closely, the Macbook 2.2,
the one in my price range, actually comes with 128MB
less VRAM than the rest.
This 128MB of VRAM is enough to put me off buying a
Macbook Pro altogether when other laptops (Dell) come
with the 256MB version. Gamers all around have told
me 128MB of VRAM is quite a difference when playing
games like CS:S and WoW.
What's the class of video cards in the other laptop system you're comparing too? The MacBook Pro uses a nVidia GeForce 8600M GT which is superior much faster then the other CPU's, there is a 256Mb version.... but you have to buy the more expensive model, even then it's cheaper than the top of the range PC equivalent, plus you can run MacOSX on it.. you can't easily do that with a PC unit.