Skuzzy, I'm looking at coming back to AH after being gone a long time. (Since AH1) I'm here cause I have all Macs now.
The machine I'm looking at trying to put windows on is one of the first intel macs with a RadeonX1600 Chipset. Is that sufficient?
The problem is not the laptop, per se, it is the Intel video chip. We do the best we can to work around all the problems with the Intel video devices, but there are some we simply cannot work around without breaking a lot of other things for everyone else.
Even Intel does not claim thier video chips are good for running anything DirectX related. They have a rather long list of games that will not run at all.
Newer is not alwayd better, especially when it pertains to video. Ther Intel video chip is a $2 solution. It runs MS Word well enough.