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| Steam Client for Mac Download + Free Portal game for limited time |
| Valve wrote that the Steam Client for Macs is now available for download and Portal (both Mac and PC versions) is free for a limited time. Steam for OS X requirements listed are:
- Intel Mac, OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
- Two-button mouse strongly recommended
- 1GB HD space (recommended)
- Internet connection (broadband recommended)
Note: I've never formatted an OS X disk that way, but Steam won't work on an OS X disk that's formatted as case sensitive.
Here's a copy of their PR on the release today (excuse the formatting):
"STEAM FOR MAC AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
VALVE OFFERS PORTAL FOR FREE AS A SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER
Steam for the Mac is now available for immediate download at www.steamgames.com.
Each Wednesday a new group of games highlighting an area of Steam functionality will be released.
This week's titles, which show off Steam Play, include:
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
Gamers who download Steam between now and May 24th will also receive a free copy of Valve's game of the year award-winning Portal.
"The Mac is a great platform for developers," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "And it's also great that we now have the ability to connect with Mac gamers via Steam. This is the beginning of a groundswell of games coming out for and fully utilizing the openness and power of the Mac."
For more information on Steam, please visit www.steamgames.com"
You can also Browse the current Mac Games on Steam (64 titles as of launch day - and Torchlight has an intro 50% off price as well as some game bundle offers.) I've had the beta installed for a couple weeks. And I'd bought the (retail/$29.xx) PC Orange Box last month after hearing about the 'steamplay' feature. |
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= From my Site Sponsor (May 12, 2010) =
8GB RAM Upgrade Kits for Mac mini, iMac, MacBook/MacBook Pros now $319.99.
Pricing today is the lowest ever for our 8GB DDR3 memory kits (4GB + 4GB) for iMacs, MacBook/MacBook Pros, and Mac Mini. This is a great buy for those wanting to get some extra performance from systems able to take advantage of 8GB (or more in the case of late 2009 iMacs) of memory. Delivery is free, so $319.99 is the total straight up.
In addition - we also offer a $60 trade in rebate for Apple factory 4GB set (2GB x 2) that comes in the MacBook/Macbook Pros and iMacs today, which makes the net cost $259.99.
And for someone buying a Mac new today who would like to go to 8GB - with the trade in that's $140 less than doing the upgrade via the 'factory' + our upgrade has our lifetime advance replacement warranty vs. the 1yr on the factory ram.
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= From my Site Sponsor (May 12, 2010) =
May Clearance/Garagesale postings at OWC!
A new month and new 'warehouse cleaning' for our latest Open box, discontinued, damaged, refurb, etc items up online and marked down for quick move out.
CPU Upgrades - G4 ZIF, G4 AGP Dual 1GHz, and a G4/1.4GHz Processor upgrades
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Save on service parts for Apple MacBooks (used) Top Cover/Keyboard+Trackpads only $44.99; New 13" LCDs for $99 and More
3.5" Hard Drives from 500GB to 2TB from $45 to $125. 2.5" hard drives 160GB to 750GB from $35.
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