Steam for Mac now live, Portal free, Lucasarts adventures included

I especially love how Portal works flawlessly with almost all the graphics features maxed out on my iMac running XP in Boot Camp. Yet, I can't even max out the resolution, let alone the graphics features, on Portal for Mac. Not only that, they wanted me to upgrade to 10.5.8 just to play a game that runs fine on XP which is way older than my current 10.5.6. I've pretty much given up on the Mac side of Steam with regards to Portal. I'm sticking with XP for that game. Thanks but no thanks Steam. Hopefully you won't screw up Half-Life 2 and it will be as good or better than it does on XP in Boot Camp. I shouldn't have to upgrade my whole computer just to play a game that runs just fine on the same computer but in XP.

Completed Portal - Playing with commentary now :D

Steam on a mac - today is a good day ^_^

Ok, so they don't let you tell the app where you want to store files on your system, they just dump them in the current users, Documents folder?

Not cool.

I was also starring at the blank screen on the store after telling it to get Portal, till I read here about how you had to switch to library to click download.

we will see how well this ends up working. could be interesting if it works. :)

BTW everybody who's complaining/confused about Tf2 not being there, the Steam website specifically stated that Portal was the only first party title available at launch. Each subsequent Wednesday that follows we'll be seeing more and more valve titles. It's not broken. It's what they have announced as their "plan." Even though that changes often.

:( I've got a three year old black macbook with Intel GMA X3100 graphics, and it's not compatable. I was so excited, too.

Its nice so far, but only afew gripes. One major one is the fact it saves all your downloaded data to your Documents folder, instead of containing it inside the Steam app or in Application Data. Its a major issue when you have backup software (like DropBox, Carbonite, etc.) set up to back up your Documents. Second is there wasn't more Valve games available at launch. Only Portal, no HL2, TF2, L4D, etc. I am sure their coming very soon so its a minor gripe.

I'm just glad though that Steam is finally out for Mac OS X, especially since it will push sales of games for Mac and possibility promote developers to release Mac versions.

Min specs for Portal on Mac are: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, or ATI X1600 or higher, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Both Portal and Torchlight run ace with everything max'd out on my 27" i5 iMac.

I'm very much looking forwards to trying this. I ordered a Core i7 iMac last week and its due for delivery tomorrow so it looks like I'll have a fun weekend ahead.

Surreal! steam goes live and I can't figure out how to download it because they hide it behind a "get portal for free" link.

ffs I already own portal, wtf don't you just have a "click to download steam". >_

What's the minimum system requirements for this? Will Steam state this before you buy a game?