[DM-MUG] For all the Mac Gamers

[Matt Stanton]

Dunno how many 'Mac Gamers' there may be on the list, but I thought I'd 
point this out in case anyone hasn't seen it, yet.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/08/valve-officially-announces-steam-and-game-library-coming-to-mac-in-april/

Valve Software recently announced that they are making the Steam client 
available for Macintosh, but even more surprisingly, they are porting 
their Source game engine to Mac OS X.  In April, they are supposedly 
making their full line of Source engine games available for Mac.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, Valve software 
has been one of the most impressive game studios for the past probably 
10 years.  The Source engine powers games such as Team Fortress 2, Left 
4 Dead (1 and 2), Portal, Half Life 2, Day of Defeat:Source, and 
CouterStrike:Source.  I'm a huge gaming fan, and I have been using a PC 
as a 'gaming rig' for as long as I have been using computers.  If Valve 
steps out of the box, here, and starts taking advantage of the hardware 
available in the new Intel-based Macs, then we could see Mac becoming a 
pretty hefty contender in the enthusiast/gaming market.

The Mac Pros are already built like you'd expect a PC gaming computer to 
be built, and many of them came with an nVidia graphics card (even the 
ATI HD 2600 in the Mac Pro at work would be sufficient to run Team 
Fortress 2 or CounterStrike:Source).  How many of you Mac users have 
heard "I would use a Mac, but it's not good for gaming"?  Looks like 
that might not be a viable argument for much longer!