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2 years ago
“What’s sort of surprising is how much more stable our games are on the Mac. Looking at the early data available from the Steam client, the Mac is five times more stable than Windows.”
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Gabe Newell, Valve.

Mac lags Windows in gaming performance, excels at stability

Another interesting statistic: After being out for just 1 week, 11% of Steam purchases are for Mac.
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2 years ago

Steam for Mac: “Free Yourself”

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2 years ago
Steam on the Mac. That’s better!

Steam on the Mac. That’s better!

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2 years ago
Your Mac Gets All Steamy Starting Tomorrow

The day Mac users has dreamed of is finally here: A real platform for playing decent games on the Mac has arrived. As of tomorrow, Steam launches its service for Mac computers, ending the…

2 years ago
“According to the survey, Macs were cheaper to troubleshoot and required fewer help desk calls; system configuration, user training, and servers/networks/printing were all cheaper for a Mac environment than a PC environment. Software licensing fees turned out to be nearly identical for both platforms.”
— IT pros: Macs cost less to manage than PCs
2 years ago
“Unfortunately for the average person, the file system is so complex that everything outside of the desktop and the documents folder appears to be a vast labyrinth which most likely hides booby traps and minotaurs.”
— Rob Foster on the Elimination of File Systems as a User-Accessible Part
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2 years ago
Valve announces Steam for Mac, games will allow Mac-PC online play

Valve officially revealed Monday that its Steam online gaming service, along with the Source engine that powers titles such as Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, is coming to the Mac in April.

Valve’s library of games will be making the jump from Windows Machines, including Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series.

2 years ago
“Anyone who knows how to run Activity Monitor can observe that even the most trivial use of Flash within in a webpage eats up extraordinary resources. If Greenpeace were a legitimate environmental watchdog, it would target Flash as a bigger threat than PVC and BFRs combined, just by the composite amount of energy it consumes to do absolutely nothing of value.”
— Inside Apple’s iPad: Adobe Flash
2 years ago
Made on a Mac: Toy Story 3

Made on a Mac: Toy Story 3

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2 years ago
“Apple actually invented the modern laptop computer with [the] Powerbook. It was the first laptop that had a TFT screen - the first modern LCD screens. It was the first laptop that pushed the keyboard up, creating palm rests, and had an integrated pointing device.”
— Steve Jobs
2 years ago

With every sale of the iPad that’s one more person using a high class standards-based web browser (Safari) and email client (Mail). Yay!

2 years ago

Andrew is installing X-Plane (flight simulator) on his MacBook Pro. 60GB of terrain. Crazy!

2 years ago
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.”
— Alan Kay
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2 years ago
This would be awesome. All your files, with you all the time, and no need to keep multiple devices in sync Maxvoltar - Dreaming of an Apple Tablet

This would be awesome.

All your files, with you all the time, and no need to keep multiple devices in sync

Maxvoltar - Dreaming of an Apple Tablet

2 years ago