{"id":3284,"date":"2010-05-21T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2010-05-21T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T17:46:23","slug":"steam-has-some-preliminary-mac-hardware-survey-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/steam-has-some-preliminary-mac-hardware-survey-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam has some preliminary Mac Hardware survey information&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak peak at some of the preliminary findings we&#8217;ve gathered about Mac hardware since we launched on that platform just over a week ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roughly two thirds of all Steam Mac users are running on a laptop. <\/li>\n<li>Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on a Mac than on Windows. <\/li>\n<li>And one week after launch, already more than eleven percent of all Steam purchases are for the Mac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to dig deeper into those numbers sometime next month, which is when we&#8217;re planning to ship the complete report. After that it will be automatically updated each month with new survey data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230; &nbsp;The first week there was only roughly 10-15 games available for the Mac, and yet 11+% of their sales were for Macintosh versions&#8230; &nbsp;Or played on Macintosh systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Portal is 4\/5ths more likely to crash on a Windows system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.. &nbsp;I can&#8217;t wait to see the full report&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/3837\/\">View the rest of the article at News &#8211; New Mac Games, Hardware Survey, and Portal<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak peak at some of the preliminary findings we&#8217;ve gathered about Mac hardware since we launched on that platform just over a week ago: Roughly two thirds of all Steam Mac users are running on a laptop. Portal (with the same code base across platforms) is one fifth as likely to crash on <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/steam-has-some-preliminary-mac-hardware-survey-information\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,137,5,11],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->