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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac?  Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:08 pm |
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I think that what you might not get is that I agree with you. I was more commenting on Rikk's post about power. The typical Mac has enough power to be a gaming machine. There is poor support MAINLY do to a low market.
The whole 512mb GPU RAM of your MacBook Pro, while OS/X utilizes only 256mb max is not some sort of game killer... You have regular RAM for a reason. Also Mac's handle resources fairly differently... there is a reason a lot of Video Editing is done on a Mac... although not much of one.
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:11 pm |
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There's no question that Macs CAN run games like TF2 and CS:S. The real question is how WELL they can run them. Think of the main thing they'll be losing: Direct 3D and Direct X acceleration. Open GL is fine and all, but graphically it won't look the same and I can't really see the majority of Macs (which are laptops) being OMGWTF gaming rigs.
That being said, many of my Mac-user friends play WoW and WC3's DoTA religiously. I'll be forcing them to play StarCraft 2 and Diablo III.
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:35 pm |
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I have a September 2008 Macbook Pro that has run TF2 great on 2gb ram under Crossover for quite awhile. Will be nice to see launchable versions of games under a OSX native steam client though.
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:17 pm |
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Now they just need to get it to linux.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 1:50 pm |
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freeb1rd wrote: Now they just need to get it to linux.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:11 pm |
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edgey wrote: I think that what you might not get is that I agree with you. I lauged really hard at this whole thread. Anyways.... HOLY FUCKING SHIT. I cant believe they're doing this, im more excited now then when the nursing home down the street added "stipper night" to their weekly schedule. Cant wait to get this running on my Mac. Also, i cant wait someone finds the "Im a PC" advertisement in 1440x900 or 1366x768... *hint hint* _________________ msleeper wrote: Eat some fucked 
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:04 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:58 pm |
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msleeper wrote: Is there a high res version of any of those teasers? I'd love a dual monitor version of the "... And I'm a PC." one. biggest version I could find. 2700x1800
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:27 pm |
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C0UNTERSP3LL wrote: msleeper wrote: Is there a high res version of any of those teasers? I'd love a dual monitor version of the "... And I'm a PC." one. biggest version I could find. 2700x1800 Dammit man, you had to find it minutes after I made this post. Now I've gotta redo those wallpapers with the higher-res one  _________________
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Post subject: Re: Steam on Mac? Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:29 pm |
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campincarl wrote: C0UNTERSP3LL wrote: biggest version I could find. 2700x1800 Dammit man, you had to find it minutes after I made this post. Now I've gotta redo those wallpapers with the higher-res one  _________________
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this is what will infect tf2 
