I love using gmail through Google Sync on my iPhone because it supports PUSH through the Exchange protocol.
See: https://www.google.com/mobile/sync
Essentially, they provide an Exchange compatible server through m.google.com.
I would like to setup Mail on OSX To use exchange as well, but have not been able to set it up properly.
Best Answer
No, you can't use Google Sync through Mail.app in Mountain Lion.
Google's exchange server m.google.com is not a fully implemented exchange server. It just implements the ActiveSync protocol which seems to be a subset of the exchange protocol for mobile devices. See also this information on Google Sync: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=135937