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brooklynfish · 06-23-2008, 10:42 AM

My friend has a custom computer with 6 fans and a trillion LEDs. He braggs that it can download a terrabyte in 6 hours.

I agree that the macs are overpriced. Does anyone have the macbook air?

pwrmacG4 · 06-23-2008, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Orion

Lets not open this can of worms

My old (read: ancient) PC laptop weighs 6 lbs, the case and hard drive is held togeather with duct tape, and STILL probably runs better than 70% machines out there today. I'd use it more often if I didn't have to pull out the hand crank to power the battery....

And my desktop is 5 years old, and I'm able to process my photography without any issues. (Ok, the 1.3 ghz proc. makes it a bit slow when converting from RAW, but other than that lol) It even does fairly well with newish games like DOOM 3.

For less than 25% of the price of the beloved MACs, I can build me a new PC that would run circles around it. And with selective purchases from good manufactures, hardware can last for years. I recently pulled out a legacy sound card out of an old case that had been in my shed for two years in the summer, rain and winter. The card worked flawlessly.

sure but the options in the power macs are almost endless too.. you can upgrade them to no end.. the video processing is unmatched.. and I bought my powermac g4 for 55.00.. put a faster dual processor in it.. 2 gb ram and I have 2 hard drives in it.. for under 200.00.. so I think that is a great deal. you only pay a ton for brand new macs.. you can look them up on ebay and craigslist.. and get them really cheap.

brooklynfish · 06-23-2008, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by pwrmacG4

.. and I bought my powermac g4 for 55.00

I wonder where your username came from....

Jason_Rookey · 06-23-2008, 11:05 PM

yea i gotta agree with chiclid man i have a custom built computer that will eat up some laptops but my laptop never gives me any problems play tons of games mmorpgs and whatnot and never lags or anything awesome pc and i also have wireless on my desktop and awesome but not portable nothing like playing a game while your instructor is giving an hour long monotoned speach lol

Orion · 06-24-2008, 06:59 AM

You said superior, and I disagree 1000%. Any workstation of whatever flavor is nothing more than a tool. You just need the right tool for the job at hand. If I needed a Mac, I would get one, no question. But I don't, so I don't have one. I don't care if I could get one for $100, I'm not going to waste my money just to be 'cool' when I could use the money on something I need.

pwrmacG4 · 06-24-2008, 11:34 PM

are you saying that I just wasted my money to be "cool"? I am not one of the dave matthews band geeks that just does what everyone else is doing... I got both platforms.. pc and mac.. and I can tell from what my experience is.. the mac is far superior to my pc's

silver dollars · 06-24-2008, 11:41 PM

Not sure what kind of laptop I have but I use Ubuntu. Its ALOT better than microsoft!!!!

Orion · 06-25-2008, 06:46 AM

I didn't say that at all. I have no idea what you do or what your needs are. If you need it, or want to use it, then more power to you. I just find it funny that all of a sudden the past few years a mass exodus to OSX, and to me the majority just seem to do it because it's the cool thing to do. They like to blindly yell how great Mac is and how bad MS sucks, but for no good reason. These are nothing more than fanboys. I didn't mean any disrespect twords you.

Cichlid-Man · 06-25-2008, 11:56 AM

My beast at night.

Orlando · 06-25-2008, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Orion

Lets not open this can of worms

My old (read: ancient) PC laptop weighs 6 lbs, the case and hard drive is held togeather with duct tape, and STILL probably runs better than 70% machines out there today. I'd use it more often if I didn't have to pull out the hand crank to power the battery....

And my desktop is 5 years old, and I'm able to process my photography without any issues. (Ok, the 1.3 ghz proc. makes it a bit slow when converting from RAW, but other than that lol) It even does fairly well with newish games like DOOM 3.

For less than 25% of the price of the beloved MACs, I can build me a new PC that would run circles around it. And with selective purchases from good manufactures, hardware can last for years. I recently pulled out a legacy sound card out of an old case that had been in my shed for two years in the summer, rain and winter. The card worked flawlessly.

I totally agree on this. I can build my own PC or notebook for way less than any Mac. And as mentioned before^^^It would run circles around any cosmetically pretty G4..