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Mac Portal and Steam Client Updates
"Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Performance improvements
  • Fixed crash during offscreen rendering
  • Fixed overbright screen when rendering with Radeon X1x00 on 10.5.8
  • Fixed subtitle mode to not include sounds, use close captioned mode for that functionality
  • Fixed achievement awarding being delayed to map change
  • Fixed view jumping when coming back from the in-game UI to the game
  • Improved support for using the Command key as a key bind"
  • I hadn't ran Steam for several days but noticed today it downloaded another update. (Build info shows May 24th at 16:00.)

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    2010 MacBook Pro w/SSDs Reports page updated (15in Core i7 w/OWC Sandforce SSD)
    I've updated the previous page on 2010 MacBook Pro SSD Info/Feedback (Apple OEM SSD and Others) with a 15in (Core i7) MacBook Pro owner's notes/benchmarks (AJ Kona, Xbench) after he swapped in a 200GB OWC Extreme Pro RE SSD. (Previous reports there on an Apple OEM (toshiba made) 128GB SSD and Intel X25M gen 2 160GB.)
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