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Macs probably are more stable as Apple promotes and Valve confirms, but Window's disadvantage is probably related to the diverse hardware configuration and user customization as you mention.ДЄnd OS X's OpenGL stability isn't hard to imagine.

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Windows platform/computers where both Valve's and your statements would both be correct.

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In this case, he probably meant the Mac platform/computers vs.

If he meant OS comparison he should have said OS X vs. Windows where one is a platform and the other is an OS. The statement is confusing because he uses Mac vs.

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Has Gabe stopped to consider that perhaps this is because of the diverse array of PC hardware, including aging hardware? Or that it is far more common for PC gamers to overclock their CPUs and GPUs (at a cost to stability)? No, he jumps straight to blaming the operating system. Sorry, Gabe, but once again what you say for public consumption Does Not Compute.Д¬orrelation is not causation.

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I mean, Valve itself says that it's been doing Windows software for many years, which would mean that Windows users would be logging hundreds of thousands of hours with lots of equipment aside from x86 laptops-which basically means that by comparison, Valve, having been selling a handful of Mac games for a whole *week*, and most of them for laptops at that-is comparing hundreds of 'Mac-minutes' to literally hundreds of thousands of 'Windows minutes', and so on. The whole thing is completely ludicrous and designed for the intake of suckers and morons, in my view. That is all such a statement could ever mean! But trust Gabe to turn it into a study of 'pimpology.' Basically, he's trying to spur Mac users to buy Steam games, and he can't sell them on 'performance' so he makes up this silliness about 'Windows versus OS X stability' when he is really and truly talking only about the stability of Valve's own software!

I mean, first Valve admits that 2/3 of all the Macs on steam so far are MacBooks, for crying out loud, which is a fact that in itself hardly bodes well for 'performance,' and then he tosses out this really stupid metric as identified above: ' using the metric of minutes played versus number of crashes.' What that would mean to a normal mind is not that 'the Mac is 5x more stable than Windows'.*snicker*.but rather that 'Valve's OS X ports are 5x times more stable than Valve's Windows games'. The above-quoted statement, and the related Valve statements as covered in this article, don't make a lot of sense. And I'm really sorry to have to say this because I've always liked Valve's games, but the evidence seems crystal clear. It's pretty certain that if you've got the bucks to give him, G.

It sure looks like he's doing it again-and I'd just love to know how much Apple's paying him to start this kind of egregious pimping yet again. I guess the ATi money ran out, though, as Valve's attitude toward ATi noticeably cooled at some point thereafter. As I recall, the news finally surfaced that maybe Gabe's righteous zeal for ATi was a bit less than pure when the story broke that ATi had paid Valve something on the order of $1M to egregiously pimp ATi's product line at the time. The cynic in me is telling me that Valve, especially Gabe Newell, is pimping the Mac just like he pimped ATi 3d cards over nVidia 3d cards so dramatically a few years ago.

Also, said Newelll,'what's sort of surprising is how much more stable our games are on the Mac.' Looking at the early data available from the Steam client, 'the Mac is five times more stable than Windows' when using the metric of minutes played versus number of crashes.