Here’s a sneak peak at some of the preliminary findings we’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 Mac than on Windows.
• And one week after launch, already more than eleven percent of all Steam purchases are for the Mac.

You’ll be able to dig deeper into those numbers sometime next month, which is when we’re planning to ship the complete report. After that it will be automatically updated each month with new survey data.

So…  The first week there was only roughly 10-15 games available for the Mac, and yet 11+% of their sales were for Macintosh versions…  Or played on Macintosh systems…

Portal is 4/5ths more likely to crash on a Windows system…

Hmm..  I can’t wait to see the full report…

(View the rest of the article at News – New Mac Games, Hardware Survey, and Portal)