I just learned firsthand that games on the Mac do suck.. the rumors were true.
yes saladfingers, 2142 mac DOES suck... but not games in general.
2142 isn't a normal port... it's a CIDER port. Cider is a cheap way to do porting because you don't have to recode much of the program... Cider simply converts the code on the fly. This means you take a performance hit. I don't know if all cider games are inherently bad, but either way, 2142 is a POOR job of porting.
Quake 4, on the other hand, is a well ported application. It runs faster than 2142 does for me, and it also looks better at the same time.
And this is actually a windows user talking about how 2142 runs crappy on Windows for him (
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread192788.html), even though other applications run well. In that guys post he mentions half life running well... and it does, it totally kicks battlefield's ass in performance in windows (on my system, at least).
2142 is fun, but the quality of the engine leaves much to be desired : \
