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# Hahaha
TJ: BEHOLD the power of the Mac:



CFB^
My old PC versus the new beast I bought today at biblical expense

And by christ the Mac settings are doing my head fingers in, other than the sheer power of thing, which is all rockets and Flash Gordon


(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:25, archived)
# Is that a keyboard or a credit card?
Looks supoib!
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:34, archived)
# My credit card has gone to a health spar to recover the horrors of today
that is indeed a keyboard, by Christ they are expensive
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:37, archived)
# Is that a 3com OfficeConnect I see, or is it branded as something else?
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:39, archived)
# I cannot read this post,
it's all geek to me!
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:43, archived)
# He's talking about the wireless router on the shelf.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:45, archived)
# That's the interweb thingy isn't it?
The phone thing?

:P
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:48, archived)
# Haha yes.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:34, archived)
# gay
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:41, archived)
# lol
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:55, archived)
# Fucking well done.
You will never ever go back.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:41, archived)
# What he said.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:44, archived)
# pfffttttttttt
you homos.

be a bit more adventurous and be electronically bisexual.

macs are nice but you could get a equally more powerful machine in a PC.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:50, archived)
# Equally more powerful? :)
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:54, archived)
# yes
or one more similar.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:56, archived)
# Vista is holding all back apparently
I'm no expert, but am simply fed up with the risk running a windows based platform; despite two firewalls and a router on the PC

I set myself a budget of £2000 for a new PC but what i'm now on is faster, at £2500, and less prone to unwanted nasty things in the long run, plus has a virtual environment I can run Windows XP and all my games

And came with CS3 Suite :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:10, archived)
# Ha ha Macs
*Adult fisher price activity centre"
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:27, archived)
# Ok
when I spend the same amount on a backup PC as a spare and alternative set of gears, we shall find out which one I spend my time on

but i'm not touching Vista


(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:47, archived)
# Vista is quite nice, actually.
It just gets trolled to fuck. Like macs.
I can't confirm if it's any good for gaming, but for what I use my laptop for it's much nicer than XP.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:51, archived)
# Vista is just like windows ME
A stopgap OS to keep Microshaft quids in. It's a huge public beta test.
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:56, archived)
# No, ME was an abomination that didn't work.
Vista's not even in the same league.
Usability-wise it's much nicer than xp, and just as stable. This is personal experience, of course, and your mileage may vary. I wouldn't recommend it for businesses.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 23:49, archived)
# Got warned away from it from my IT guy
on account of speed and other issues; I suspect someone will now discredit this; though I will hold his advice

The speed i'm experiencing is simply incredibable
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:58, archived)
# Nope he's right
Vista is a resource hog. We're sticking with XP til Vienna is released.
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 23:02, archived)
# And it's sexy as fuck and works properly.
I'm not saying Macs never crash (although none of mine have crashed in the last .... 5 years, probably) - they do have problems, things need resetting and applications need force quitting occasionally. However, I bought a MBP in February and I've only had to switch it off to install updates.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:33, archived)
# i really hate macs.
not coz they're crap or anything.

Just try managing them in a large windows corporate network - bloody nightmare.

And Office Mac users are the worst ponciest bastards.........

There's no challenge in a computer that works properly...
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:37, archived)
# also i'm curious?
how can a rectangular box be sexy?

(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:42, archived)
# There's a fleshlight port on the back.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:51, archived)
# just make sure to
avoid the firewire port then...
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:58, archived)
# Haha!
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 23:02, archived)
# or:
Use bootcamp on said Mac and be truly electronically bisexual. Thus totally smashing the 'equally more powerful' PCs XP or Vista boot time to smithereens.

Its the dogs danglies.

(I helped save b3ta! johnselekta last posted something equally unfunny on or before, Tue 1 Jul 2008, 2:03, archived)
# That's true,
I've never gone back to one ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:01, archived)
# I am quite jealous.
Your first Mac?
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:43, archived)
# I worked with one before the zoo at Big pictures
and seem to remember thinking they were a bit over rated at the time to be honest, but no way right now; this is simply awesome power

But at mentalist expense, so im not going to knock PC's for being cheaper; each to their own

I've even got a virtual Windows XP environment to play all my old Star Wars games on :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:58, archived)
# ooh, shiny
congrats on your new monster!
(I helped save b3ta! Bryan Damage Cheese sandwich?, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:44, archived)
#
hmm, lefty dock! a renegade manouver.

Is that the obligatory desktop ash tray I see?

And welcome, you will never leave etc etc
(AMadDayYes, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:51, archived)
# Looks purrrdy!
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 21:55, archived)
# If it wasn't so heavy
I would take it to bed later
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:00, archived)
# Oh I don't know
I've taken many a heavy thing to bed in my time ;)
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:08, archived)
# Or you could get a PC of better spec for half as much...
Sorry, I'm a bit of a Mac Basher, mostly it's my dislike of the mark-up that seems to be levied for a white case. Many people point to OS X as a good OS, maybe true, but it's running on over-specific hardware.

EDIT: Normally I would keep my stupid mouth shut, but it was so lovely outside, and I had some really nice beer in the fridge...
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:04, archived)
# What I will knock is the Apple store shopping environment
there I was trying to digest what I was about to spend a vast amount of money on, with some shop worker banging away aimlessly on a piano keyboard on the next computer. I had to tell him to shut up three times so I could think, before learning afterwards from the apparent twelve year old who sold me my deal it is Apple policy to do that

Can't think = easier sale

Which is bollocks really, though I had my last PC for nine years; so this all seems like a dream

Plus it looks metallic and nice


(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:23, archived)
# fuck apple
they fucked up my laptop, deinstalled quicktimequickshite and it deinstalled the wifi drivers, had to reinstall the drivers 3 fucking times before it finally worked, and now whenever I bring the machine out of standby, an Asus program that senses the FN key crashes

so I say again

FUCK APPLE!
(I helped save b3ta! Haku Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips., Mon 30 Jun 2008, 23:40, archived)