Registered: Dec 1999
Location: brooklyn
Posts: 268

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Originally posted by b1lanceman:
YES MATTY I HAVE USED AN IMAC. I still havent recovered, imacs are the only thing my school uses now. I can use it for maybe 10 or 15 minutes before it crashes... thank god im changing schools next year.

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Registered: Oct 1999
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Posts: 28

err heard of quake? it uses both.
and look @ cost
how much is 1 athalon + MB for it vs my setup
like i said it's cheeper.
same with halflife/counterstrike it utilizes both cpus.

bsides i'm gona upgrade my system
two new PIII 7??'s

like i said befor my system mops the floor with my buddies athalons and pIII's without trying!


what system do you havE?

PS: the more power the better! i want 2 GHZ!

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

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but i cant stand apple getting customers to buy computers that look good but perform badly

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location:
Posts: 638

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Originally posted by piloteer:
err heard of quake? it uses both.
and look @ cost
how much is 1 athalon + MB for it vs my setup
like i said it's cheeper.
same with halflife/counterstrike it utilizes both cpus.

bsides i'm gona upgrade my system
two new PIII 7??'s

like i said befor my system mops the floor with my buddies athalons and pIII's without trying!

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 165

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Originally posted by Hoser_in_USA:
i'll remember that the next time i see you driving down the street in your biege 1982 Suburban. that MUST be what you drive with an attitude like that.

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Registered: Feb 2000
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Posts: 144

It's the same thing as Visor/Palm vs. PocketPC - fortunately not everybody has the same taste and same preferences when it comes to buying computers (or cars or clothes or whatever). Otherwise, we would not have one thing when we step into a store: choice. What is good or perfect for one's needs does not have to be as good for somebody else's needs.
There is a market for the imac - as there is for every other computer brand (even HP's with shared RAM for Video and MB - yuck! ).

There is no use trying to convince a build-it-yourself-freak that upgrades his system on a monthly basis (no insult intended - I also built my desktop system myself) to buy an all-in-one solution or somebody who just wants to send some emails, browse the web and do some word-processing to build a high-end system with premium components.
Both sides have a point. With a system � la imac you get an easy-to-use, nice-looking (depends on your taste, as I said, I don't like the design) system, the power user does extensive research and "composes" a system that has superior performance and possibily a better value for the money but when it comes to assembly and setup is on his own.

You can argue for another 500 posts - BTW the original topic was computer design, not performance, but that's the cool thing about threads: you never know what will come out at the end - and you will not be able to proselytise (sp?) anybody...

But I agree with Foo, a little more design wouldn't hurt, at least to have some choice...

just my 2 cents...

mc9

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Registered: Jan 2000
Location:
Posts: 241

Here's an idea for all of you "I'm gonna pay twice as much so I can get color" people!

Step 1: Buy a can of spray paint in the color you want your computer to be.

Step 2: remove your computer shell (assuming you have a minitower with a removable cover, if not, you may want some masking tape for all the cracks and such in your system.)

Step 3: paint the cover! (not near your PC of course)

I have a friend who wanted a black PC, and his machine looks great (he's an avid mac user who had to get a PC for school).

On another note, all of you people who said a while back that "windows is stable" and "linux doesn't have a pretty gui environment": Windows is NOT stable. After using MS products for years now, I know, as should anyone else who's worked in windows for a while. And about linux not being pretty? Ever heard of the Linux interface Xwindows? Try it some time.

-Petro

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 1683

Petro:

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but keep in mind that this is not just about "color." It's about design in general. Color is merely one element of that. The Macs are well designed in several ways, the least of which is color. The iMac's have a great form to them, making them ideal for desktop display. They do not have any fans, making them exceptionally quit, they perform quite well, and, for being a full computer system, are fairly portable.

As for Xwindows being pretty, I would say it is simply a bad implementation of Windows, which is really a half-assed implementation of the MacOS, which is really a take-off of Xerox PARC's initial GUIs. We're long overdue for a totallly new concpet in OS GUIs.