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Steam for Mac now available to download

by Parm Mann on 13 May 2010, 09:54

Tags: Valve

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Right on cue, Valve has announced that its first official Steam client for Apple Mac computers is now available to download.

The software, available for Intel-based Mac systems running OS X version 10.5.8 or later, has been launched with a library of 57 titles, with Valve stating that "a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality" will be released each following Wednesday.

Valve's initial 57 titles, listed below, all offer support for the newly-launched Steam Play functionality - a feature that allows users to purchase a game for one platform, i.e. Mac, and then play it on another - Windows - at no extra cost.

If you've yet to buy into the Steam content delivery service, and you need an added incentive, here's one; from now until May 24th, any PC or Mac user to download the Steam client is being gifted a free copy of Portal. Sold? Hit steampowered.com for the respective links.

  • And Yet It Moves
  • Atlantis Sky Patrol
  • Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
  • Bob Came in Pieces
  • Bookworm Deluxe
  • Braid
  • Brainpipe
  • Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
  • Chuzzle Deluxe
  • City of Heroes: Architect Edition
  • Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
  • Cooking Dash
  • Diaper Dash
  • The Dig
  • Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
  • DinerTown Detective Agency
  • DinerTown Tycoon
  • Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
  • Escape Rosecliff Island
  • Fairway Solitaire
  • Fitness Dash
  • Football Manager 10
  • Galcon Fusion
  • Gemini Lost
  • Guns of Icarus
  • Hotel Dash Suite Success
  • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  • KrissX
  • Loom
  • Luxor
  • Luxor 3
  • Luxor: Mahjong
  • Machinarium
  • Mahjong Roadshow
  • Max and the Magic Marker
  • My Tribe
  • The Nightshift Code
  • Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
  • Parking Dash
  • Peggle Deluxe
  • Peggle Nights
  • Portal
  • Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
  • Quantz
  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
  • Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
  • Toki Tori
  • Torchlight
  • Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
  • Unwell Mel
  • Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
  • Wandering Willows
  • Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
  • World of Goo
  • Zenerchi
  • Zuma Deluxe


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Anandtech have done a quick performance and quality comparision between OS X and Win 7 for Portal:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3726/quick-look-mac-os-x-portal-performance

Not a particularly representative test, given the test set up (Hackintosh with a GTX285), but a surprisingly noticeable difference in image quality as well as the inevitable performance limitations of a port:

Windows:


Mac:


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Sorry I had to :)
Mac mice have had dual buttons for years, and if you don't like them, you can use pretty much any mouse of your choosing.. ;)

Oh btw, don't forget that Steam for Mac and Portal are beta releases, performance will improve with time :)

Although in all honesty, I had no problems playing portal at all, first time I've bothered with it - enjoyable, but pretty simple :)

I'm chomping at the bit for TF2 though :D

BONK!
Stoo
Mac mice have had dual buttons for years, and if you don't like them, you can use pretty much any mouse of your choosing.. ;)

I know, just trolling for a laugh ;)
They need to improve the client itself - every time I quit it beachballs and I have to force quit.