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Edit: Bumped post before i could type the content of the post:P. Anyways, i recently (like, yesterday) switched to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and i was wondering if there was a way to get Steam running well on it for free. I found the program Crossover, but it costs money to use it for anything longer than a month, and if i use boot camp i'd have to partition my hard drive, and i cant really do that, because isn't that really hard if not impossible to reverse? I can't leave anything permanently changed on this computer, so my question is to you: How can I get Steam working on my Mac for free, that won't leave anything permanently altered on the computer. Bonus question: Macbook 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Is it worth the effort to try? I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Well I at least know this.

You need to be able to emulate a windows or linux OS to run steam. The best long term solution is to get bootcamp and get yourself vista or Xp because if your computer is as new as you say reformating or at least getting an external hard drive would be best but you want to have it one your main or performance hard drive. I do know there are quite a bit of Mac users on these forums but I just do not have bootcamp on my mac. Do you think that I could put boot camp with Windows Xp on my USB External Harddrive, and it would work ok? Would the USB be too slow for it to work ok? I had Morrowind on it for a while, and that worked fine, but i'd say that TF2, HL2, and Mass Effect are just a bit more complex than Morrowind.

I'd prefer it if there were no more 'Just buy a PC' replies. I said before, i had to change to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and it just so happens that i prefer PCs. This computer is a long-term borrow, so i can't leave anything irreversible on it (partitioning the hard-drive, etc.) Besides, if i can't afford to buy Crossover, how could i afford to buy a new computer? I don't have the Leopard CD for this computer, the person who owns the computer does, so i can't do Bootcamp unless there is a way to do it without using the Leopard CD to get the drivers. Edit: Bumped post before i could type the content of the post:P.

Anyways, i recently (like, yesterday) switched to a Mac for reasons beyond my control, and i was wondering if there was a way to get Steam running well on it for free. I found the program Crossover, but it costs money to use it for anything longer than a month, and if i use boot camp i'd have to partition my hard drive, and i cant really do that, because isn't that really hard if not impossible to reverse? I can't leave anything permanently changed on this computer, so my question is to you: How can I get Steam working on my Mac for free, that won't leave anything permanently altered on the computer. Bonus question: Macbook 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB Ram 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Is it worth the effort to try? I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Partitioning is easier to reverse than set up.

You just click to kill the Windows and it does. Might as well try it if possible EDIT: Ah, I don't think it is possible without the drivers.

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Is it worth the effort to try? Games are always worth it to try =) That'd be the better way to do it. Your graphics card would actually be able to handle it.

Is steam even available for Macs? The video cards in macs are actually surprisingly good (part of the reason they cost so much, I'd presume). How to insert page in word for mac. And I don't know of any way to get Steam on a mac that will let you play the games.

I'm not sure if partitioning is permanent, I certainly haven't heard of it being so until I read your post Kinda. You can't re-partition (resize) a windows partition without having to re-install windows. But if you ever get sick of windows you can EASILY erase the partition and give the space back to your Macintosh partition I would say just buy a hard copy I'll pretty much only be playing TF2, Mass Effect, and Deus Ex on it, so even if only one of them will work, that is good enough for me to try. Do those even come on Macs? Not that I know of, and even if they did you'd have to buy a mac version of them anyway.