I run CoX on my Macbook Pro when I'm on the road for work, and the game runs wonderfully. Heck, it even crashes less than my big iMac. I highly recommend the MBP.
You won't be disappointed with the Macbook Pro.
For gaming, make sure you set the Graphics setting in Energy Saver to "Higher Performance" so the MBP uses the built-in 9600 instead of the 9400. It'll give you less battery life, but more power.
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Oh, that's good news! Thanks for the help! 
I've been running a 17" MBP for a while now. Runs CoH just great if I reboot, and mostly pretty well if I use the Mac client.
Since you're doing recording with it: if you use a firewire interface, you may have issues. I have an Alesis io26 that doesn't work with CoH at all. Whatever I do, the sound comes out distorted. My solution is to use the built-in sound (headphone jack) for the system sound, and Logic uses the Alesis, and I run both outputs into different channels on a mixer. Don't know if you'll have any problems, but if you do, try the built in sound.
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Just a quick question. Looking into a new laptop for school coming up, neading it for Sound Recording and the like ... but I need my games to ... "study"
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I was looking into the 17" MacBook Pro, and was wondering if this would be able to run CoH (and possibly future games) without flaw (for the most part):
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
I was customizing an alienware m17x and got it to what I wanted for a cheaper price, but my school will use Mac's and I think it would be overall better for running sound progams. So if the graphics specs are good enough, I may have found my new laptop!
Thanks for the help all!