These are the most basic standards problemes that pushed me to play what i want on Consols as 360 or PS3!!! PC is defenitelly not for gaming !!!!
I bet our buddy Haxer can poignantly disagree with that...

...but then again, it is a laptop you're trying to run this on. I think the benefit to gaming on a PC is the power possible in a desktop. There are gaming-specific laptops out there designed for very 3D-intensive gaming (Alienware's stuff, for example) although the prices are quite prohibitive. One of my lab-mates tried getting Halo2 running on his brand new Sony Vaio laptop and had a horrendous time. Turned out it was because of the specific graphics card he had - that particular model presented a major hurdle for the software. Gaming on a PC means you can double-up (or more) on graphics cards and run faster processors with 4-24x the memory. I do agree with your point regarding consoles, though: it's still WAY more economical to get a dedicated gaming console where things are virtually guaranteed to work.
As for the Wireless/BlueTooth problems... you know what us mac guys say about that majority operating system, so I'll leave it unsaid

The new Mac will be my laboratory/work computer principally, although I was secretly hoping to hook up a game or two on the Windows partition, since it's gotta be there to run my densitometry software.
(I hope Lost Planet will run... I hope Lost Planet will run... I hope Lost Planet will run...)