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I am using a 13" MacBook Pro that is from mid 2010.

Specs:
2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
4GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce 320M

I was only getting between 10-20 FPS at best while playing in the Mac OS. The game still ran, but it was by no means smooth and it was difficult to play. There have been quite a few complaints and threads on the blizzard site detailing the poor performance people have been experiencing on Macs. Blizzard has actually deleted quite a few of the threads because they are trying to keep things cool until they can get a patch out.

I finished installing Windows 7 on the partition and reinstalling D3 yesterday, and I was getting MUCH better results. I was able to play on the highest resolution and have pretty high settings for everything else and still get 40 - 50 FPS. The only thing I had to still have changed was shadows off and low on a few of the other settings.

If you are playing on a Mac check out your FPS by pressing ctrl+R when you are playing and see what you are getting. You may be totally fine, which would be great, but you may find it isn't running as well as you think. My buddy is playing on a completely tricked out Mac desktop used for video editing and he can play in OSX, but he still doesn't get great performance. He is now going to switch over to windows for D3 until they patch.

For those of you with a not so great computer and don't have the money to buy a new one (like me...just got a new laptop last year...don't have money for a pc), here are some settings that are known to work on a mac-book air. Briefly: "My computer specs: 1.7GHz Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384MB

My preferred Diablo III settings: Fullscreen, 1440x900, 150 FPS (foreground), 30 FPS (background), Low texture quality, Low shadow quality, Low physics, Low clutter density, Anti-Aliasing on. (The game defaulted to higher settings, which I also tested in the video; it introduced minor lag in some enemies and support characters)"

I run mine (an hp pavilion dm4 with similar or slightly better computer specs) basically the same way and it works fine. However, I just make sure my fans are getting proper ventilation space as they are running pretty hot (a cooling pad might not be a bad idea).

Finished normal difficulty last night with my buddy and started nightmare.

Avoiding the auction house because you can get really good gear for way too cheap (only playing with stuff either of us find or craft)

I have a level 38 monk, playing through on Nightmare now. That Belial fight isn't too bad for a monk. Use Sanctuary to go invincible for a short time and heal (or breath of heaven for some healing if you don't have sanctuary yet). Seven Sided Strike makes you invincible and does decent damage. That one kick secondary attack with the first rune does good damage as well. You can set yourself up to gain health whenever you use spirit too.

I don't do much damage per hit but the monk is pretty much un-killable.