Video Perspective: Steam Client and Portal on the Mac

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Steam for the Mac is now available in a public beta but should users that

already have a Windows Boot Camp partition on their Apple systems be

concerned about making the move to the native Mac client? How is image

quality and performance affected in the one "standard" title available

today, Portal?

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=921

 

Quote: "There may not be much incentive for Valve to do so quickly however;

the truth is that graphical power on the Mac platforms is well behind what

is available on Windows and the fact that a user still cannot upgrade their

system as easily (no Hackintosh's are not in my discussion here) points

toward Valve treating the Mac more like a console. They can pinpoint

exactly what hardware (or nearly) they want to target and build and perfect

the engine with that in mind. Coding for the huge array of available

hardware for Windows PCs presents more problems to go along with the added

benefits and power."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com