Valve’s monthly survey of the hardware specifications of Steam users has found that nearly half of Mac gamers run a MacBook Pro, while the iMac accounts for nearly a quarter.Released this week, the Steam survey for July 2010 shows MacBook Pro owners accounting for 46.78 percent of Mac hardware ownership. The iMac comes in second with 23.18 percent, while 20.25 percent of gamers played on Apple’s low-end, entry-level MacBook.
Apple’s high-end desktop, the Mac Pro, came in fourth, with 5.41 percent of Macs that logged into Steam for the month. Finally, the Mac mini represented 3.44 percent of Mac users.Just over 5 percent of all Steam users connected to the gaming service via a Mac. The number suggests some of the initial excitement surrounding Steam for Mac died down, as more than 8 percent of gamers used Mac OS X in May 2010.
The lion’s share of Mac users have upgraded to Snow Leopard, as a total of 4.3 percent on the serve were running Mac OS X 10.6.3 64-bit. Another 0.77 percent remain on Leopard, running Mac OS X 10.5.8 64-bit.Mac users overwhelmingly have ore system RAM than other gamers, with 53.61 percent of all users carrying 4GB in their system. Another 31.15 percent had just 2GB, which is the most common capacity of all Steam users.
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