Will i be ok Gaming questions

I just ordered a Core Duo MBP 2.16ghz with the 256 ATI card and 2 gigs ram (reburbed). Now ive been a huge windows gamer usually play every title out there but ive recently decided to make the switch after having the pleasure of using my girlfriends macbook. I must say i love the OS!
I pretty much play WoW now and that's it. So since i could play it on a mac i took the dive! With my Dell XPS laptop I was getting average 60FPS. @hat can i expect for the MBP and maybe even in general with mac games?
Thanks!

KemosabeMac,
You will have no problems with games on a MBP. I'm not absolutely certain, but I think I have seen reports of as much as 90 FPS in WoW on a MBP.
I generally run games at the highest settings available for that game, and I never have any trouble.
You might encounter games that will not automatically recognize that you are driving a 1680 X 1050 (widescreen) display. Not sure why this is, but there are sometimes workarounds to get the game to run at the display's native resolution, which is always better than running at less. If you encounter a game that doesn't give you the option for 1680 X 1050 resolution, have a look around for the game's ".ini" or ".plist" file. If it can be opened in Text Edit, you might be able to manually set the resolution to 1680 X 1050.
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