Will I be able to play games OK under boot camp with the 2.66GHz 24" iMac?

I am considering moving to mac but I have a couple of PC games that I would like to continue using. These games are red alert 3, tomb raider anniversary and i would like to get sims 3.
How well will games play on the new 2.66GHz 24" iMac? or would I need a better computer?
Also will the mac version of sims 3 work well on it, or will this work better if i got the windows version and played it using boot camp.
Finally would it be advised I used XP instead of vista or would it still be possible to play these games using vista with boot camp.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Ben

If you grabbed one of the current iMacs you'd have very little trouble playing almost any of the games currently on the market and a good many of the ones scheduled to arrive this year.
Boot Camp is really simple and easy to use so if you don't feel like buying the Mac versions of your games you can quite easily run them on Windows via Boot Camp. However, the Mac versions tend to be just as good as the PC versions (I would say at times they're even more stable).
As for XP or Vista, that's really your choice. The last specs I saw put XP as a better gaming OS than Vista, and for the longest time I forsook Vista for a performance build of XP Pro, but now I've actually started using Windows 7 to do some gaming and have found it to be a good competitor for XP.
That being said, if you're getting one of the newer Macs you're better off with Vista if only for the DDR3 RAM support which, I'm told, isn't found in XP. The RAM works just fine in XP but, again from what I've been told, Vista can use it to it's fullest.

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