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Valve: "Mac is 5 times more stable than windows running games"
lanux128:
Gabe Newell the boss-man of Valve claimed in a recent interview that "the Mac is 5 times more stable than windows running games." you can listen to the podcast here. it also has video and text-transcript at the same location. Valve/Steam must be trying to win over the Mac crowd. :)
Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2010/05/26/steam-is-more-stable-on-mac-than-windows/
Eóin:
It's probably buggy Windows versions of iTunes that are fscking up those 'unstable' PCs.
wraith808:
5 times more stable? Not 4 or 6? Or maybe 4.997? I hate statements that try to apply an obviously subjective number to a non-empirical statement.
Carol Haynes:
As a general comment could this be due to the fact that windows has at 5000% more games available?
As to the specific comment about one game what does that prove? That the developers are better at writing Mac applications perhaps?
Most gaming issues seem to be related to graphics and antivirus issues (AIUI). I can't believe nVidia's crappy drivers are any better on the Mac than Windows (given that Windows has a much larger test environment) - and as for antivirus issues that probably falls down to Windows users forgetting to disable it and Mac users being too thick (or religiously affected) to install one!
40hz:
Saint Mung throws back his head, laughs - and then posits the following koan :
"What is the sound of one face sucking up big time?"
All hail Eris! Shantih!
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