Thanks, that search helped a lot. I tried seaching via the forum search function but it seems to not work so well as all searches regarding "bootcamp" "Mac" "System requirements" and other terms turned up nothing. I've always wondered how you use Google to search a particular website. Thanks.

As for Bootcamp, I have been assured by previous experience and other users that it runs Windows as well as a PC can run Windows, unlike any sort of emulator like Parallels, which acts more like a "layer", and is subject to all the disadvantages a layer can provide. I think I'm fairly certain the game will run fine now, I don't see why it wouldn't. Thanks for the help though any further chime ins would be assuring.

bootcamp == dual boot. It's XP running natively.

Heh - to be honest, the search on nearly all of the forums on the Internet is broken, and amusingly enough a lot of foums out there encourage their users to use their search function.

The specs look good - but I've learned that laptops tend to be weaker than desktops. In many cases, by an order of magnitude. The 9400M has 16 shader cores, while my 9600 GT has 64. The high end cards have more than 200.

The good news is that GalCiv 2 is not shader heavy, so it won't be that much of a deal. But it can throw a lot of polygons at the larger map sizes - what's really going to hit you is the amount of memory on your system. 2 GB should be good enough for the map sizes you are talking about.

Mostly, anyway (it has to emulate the BIOS as windows does not support EFI, and special mac-windows drivers are sometimes needed for hardware due to tweaks apple made).

It should work fine, but Macbooks/Pro have been known to have heat issues under windows. So if you experience any crashes or hangs, that will be the first thing to look into.

I've been playing the gme on my MacBook, similar specs to yours, and it runs just fine.