Mac Steam. Are you in?

I am not going to waste tens of billions of euro on a mac just so I can use steam on it when I can use steam and its games just as well on a PC that costs only 5 cent.
And by the way, I prefer Stardock’s Impulse over steam.

For sure. I have both. Why not play my games on the go on my Mac laptop when Im not home at my pc?

I only play solitaire, plants vs. zombies, and Mario Cart 64 in a emulator. I won’t use Steam so I don’t care. But it is a big thing for people who game on a Mac.

Before I switched to a Mac for work, I was an avid PC gamer and used Steam all the time. So long as they’re porting the HL2 line to OS X, I’m in :)

I already use Steam on Windows under bootcamp but rebooting just to play a game is a pain in the ass.

If I was interested in Valve’s games, I’d definitely be in on day one.

Absolutely. Been waiting a long time for Garry’s Mod on the mac.

YES! DIE MAC GAMING MYTH, DIE!!!!

Sounds good. I’ve been using Steam since it was beta. I hope my Half-Life 2 keys are valid for the Mac version as well…

Of course, it might all be moot since my MacBook has a piece of shit Intel GMA 950 graphics processor in it which chokes even on the stupid little animations that Parallels does when it switches into full screen.

@noyesa Haha, mine has that too. I have managed to get Half Life 2, Garrys Mod, SWAT 4, Grand Theft Auto, and some other games working on it, though.

The GMA950 isn’t quite as bad as everyone says it is.

Of course! I already own a few games on Steam, but I hardly ever boot up my Windows box to play them.

@dverhey A few years ago I had XP running via BootCamp and (when it wasn’t crashing) Half-Life 2 ran surprisingly smoothly, so I’m optimistic. I hope the Mac native version of the source engine is as super lean as the PC version.

Often times ports run far worse. Doom III, for example, even on the most beefed up Mac at the time, ran like ass, and far worse than even a relatively underpowered PC. I know Aspyr did a lot of those ports and half assed it for the most part. Valve did a beautiful job eeking everything out of the ~800MHz Pentium 3, 64MB of RAM, and GeForce 3 in the Xbox to get Half-Life 2 running and looking great on it, so there’s no way the Mac port should hold anything back.