I was using a Windows 7 system, Steam, and The Orange Box.
Unfortunately I had to earn the right to game, by going through a torturous process..
1. Boot.
2. Windows decided it was not registered, I had to install the Juniper VPN client to connect to our licensing server.
3. Virus killer updates were needed.
4. Adobe reader decided that it needed to patch itself.
5. Steam wanted to update, which is fair enough but it initially refused to connect to my account.
6. Then there are the usual windows updates and dropbox syncing.
Windows isn't doing anything wrong but it took 30 minutes to be able to start a gaming session. I only had an hour :( perhaps a computer should be used for computing and a games machine should be used for gaming?
Now that steam is available on the Mac, I think I'll be swapping to that in future as when it boots it only needs to do steps 5 and 6 above, and it does this quicker than windows. I'll also be gaming more on the iPad playing stunning games like RealRacing2HD.
I am also very interested in the OnLive service, cross platform cloud gaming, if my broadband speed can keep up.
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