Steam Coming To Mac

[orphenshadow]

Your $2000 laptop has about 300 dollars worth of parts in it.

P.S.

My laptop does not bsod

[tantric132]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3569/

BOOM MOTHER FUCKERS

[dfxrocko]

congrats you can play CS:S games no one has played in a while..

[orphenshadow]

[CoyoteMoFugginGuyver]

I still love a mac for it's resale value over a PC. I bought a 1st gen Mac PRO when they FIRST came out, and had a new PC a few weeks before that (Not mine) nearly top of the line...

Said PC would now sell around 500$, whereas I sold the Mac PRO in January for 1475$. Quite substantial considering I paid about 2000$ for the PRO and the pc was worth 1400$ (it was custom-built, no best buy package shit)

It's really an invalid argument. I do love PC's for their compatibility and overall they are incredibly easy to upgrade, which is very frustrating on a mac. I love the MAC os though, I truly do. Everything is so much simpler and requires so many fewer steps, even for things on the "harder" end of the spectrum (I work on macs for a living).

Back to thread though.. this is pretty cool I've been wanting to play TF2 on a mac for a long while. I think we'll see more of this, as Macs are getting increasingly popular. Look at any of your local retail outlets.. you'll see larger and larger mac sections. Soon enough, gaming won't be horribly hard to do on a mac (Not because of performance, because of compatibility)

stealthedit: I have never had trouble with speed in even the latest games on a mac. I've ran 3 clients of Eve on my iMac which is 2.5 years old, all on medium/high graphics

[tK.VRT]

lol i will stand before both mac and PC but as for gaming PC still has the market and i doubt mac will ever match up to the gamer market ever that's my 2 cents right there stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

[tantric132]

I'm not saying that it will ever match up to PC's gaming market...they aren't trying to lol. They dominate enough markets over PC already (like mobile phones, creative design, and recently, education). I'm just saying it's awesome that VALVe is bringing this option to us mac users.

[tK.VRT]

yeah you are right on that side of the spectrum they have dominated over there and apparently they like it there most even if they do try to dominate on the PC market ever i am sure all PC markets will step up there game as well in both hardware and software alike and plow them back down

[CoyoteMoFugginGuyver]

yeah you are right on that side of the spectrum they have dominated over there and apparently they like it there most even if they do try to dominate on the PC market ever i am sure all PC markets will step up there game as well in both hardware and software alike and plow them back down

To be honest, I think the PC market is split between two types of buyers:

Those who build their own, or buy high quality package deals (I.E. smart ones)
Those who buy an overpriced piece of shit package deal because they don't know whats going on.

The PC market thrived because of well, windows, and the second part of that equation...

But now a days, Macs are becoming more popular towards the dumbshit, buy anything-no research type of people. You can see it at every store you pass that sells computers in that fashion. Mac sections are growing larger and larger and PC sections are seeing more of those "package" deals to keep up.

Really, you're only going to get what you paid for out of a mac if you know what you're doing and understand what you can do. To be honest, nearly everything is compatible with a mac these days with programs like Crossover, Bootcamp, Parallels, etc. My mac can run anything a PC of the price can run, at the same or better quality. The only real issue is compatibility, which won't change for some time, but is getting there. In the end though, I think the build-your-own PC buyers will still love their machines - and for good reason. They can be pretty beast for their buck.

[orphenshadow]

I was fixing to say, the entire Apple market is geared towards the dumb shit people who don't know what the fuck is going on. Thats like the entire market share they are going for.

Apple TV was a failure because of the closed nature of the device, and now their "slate" knockoff, the ipad i think will probably go the way of the newton. I just dont see a market for a device that is nothing more than an oversized iphone, when the only people interested in chunking 800 bucks on it, probably already own an iphone. This product is a disaster and a waste of money. If i were apple, I would have trimmed down the Macbook Air, maybe cut the ram and processor speed a bit. removed the keyboard and instead mounted a touch screen to the surface making it about the size of the ipad, thin, light, and put full on osx on it.

But no, apple figures the sheeple will buy anything they release.