New Toy

[skookum]

Oh my God! Macs rule!

I just got my new 24" iMac today. Holly crap! This thing is huge!. I'll post pics and screenies later. Yay!

[Seminole]

Congratulations!...

[SteamWake]

I like my mac's with cheese and sausage. :p

Glad your happy with your new toy.

[skookum]

Just a quick report on performance.

MODS:

NSM
Environmental 4.x
RFB
RSRD

1900x1080

With everything maxed I'm getting a constant 60 frames per second, often higher!!!

24" iMac 3.06 dual core, 4Gig ram, with the Nvidia 8800 GS.

Smokin'

[Rockin Robbins]

Nice PC you have there. The Mac is dead. Long live the PC! The only thing left of the Mac is OSX Leopard, which is Apple's version of Vista, including a similarly long list of bugs. My daughter uses both every day and prefers her PC. Oh, I forgot. They're BOTH PCs.

Apple does make pretty stuff. After all, the only thing they sell is "coolness."

But if cool is what you want, put together an Ubuntu system and save a huge pile of dough. You can still dual boot Windows to play games and you have an operating system that makes both Mac and Windows look like a couple of octegenarians. And all the excellent software is free. With Mac4Lin theme you can end up with something that even mocks OSX with a very similar but modestly priced appearance.


OSX? Heck no. I'll never buy anything from Apple again after being caught in their betrayal of tens of thousands of customers in the Apple ][ and Apple/// debacle. They screwed the single largest computer customer base in the world at the time. Apple continues their anti-customer crusade with iPhones that won't run any software but their own and which are exclusively tied to AT&T as just one example. They are the Darth Vader of world corporations, using the dark side of the force. Their profit ratios are more than three times that of the hated oil companies.

[Seminole]

Nice PC you have there. The Mac is dead. Long live the PC!

Talk about raining on somebody's parade.... ......he is delighted with it and that should be enough for everyone else. What is the point of trying to talk into buyers remorse? Just be happy for and with the guy.

[Rockin Robbins]

No, it's a great PC! It is just sold by a reprehensible company for a rapacious price. But since it is a PC it will run Windows fine.

I have a fine case of rabies when it comes to Apple, that is true. The only cure for it is to always remind people that when they play with Apple, they are playing with a snake. Although the snake is pretty, they should not be surprised when they are bitten. That's what snakes do.

Rest assured I am entirely good-natured about it. It's not as if an Apple PC won't run Windows. Heck, it's a nice PC with a great graphics card and that's what PCs are supposed to do.

But just to show my good will, I have asked some Apples to come over for a party.


MMMMMMMMM! I believe I have the makings of a pie!

[skookum]

@RR

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with Apple.

[Task Force]

I had a mac with XP on it. I hated it, got a steady 20- frames a second on medium.

[Rockin Robbins]

Well, nowdays Mac runs Windows as well as your PC can. If they have as good a graphics card as snookums has they can shred SH4. Because architecurally, they are just as much a PC as your Windows machine.

Yeah, snookums, they took me for a fool. But they were the real fools because I've spent many thousands on non-Apple computers since and I could have been an Apple customer for life if treated right. So they kept their ill-gotten gains and I voted for the opposition with my cash from then on. Now half the battle, the hardware battle, is over and the loser was Apple. I take some satisfaction from that. Justice is always satisfying.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Well, nowdays Mac runs Windows as well as your PC can. If they have as good a graphics card as snookums has they can shred SH4. Because architecurally, they are just as much a PC as your Windows machine.

Yeah, snookums, they took me for a fool. But they were the real fools because I've spent many thousands on non-Apple computers since and I could have been an Apple customer for life if treated right. So they kept their ill-gotten gains and I voted for the opposition with my cash from then on. Now half the battle, the hardware battle, is over and the loser was Apple. I take some satisfaction from that. Justice is always satisfying.

Did you also get lied to at a store by apple sales people. They told me that this was a great computer that would run my games perfectly. What would they know, Mac has what, three games.:rotfl: also right after I bought that computer, they changed to Leopard. All cause my dad forced me to get it. Stupid lying sales people.

[jazman]

Originally Posted by Seminole

Talk about raining on somebody's parade.... ......he is delighted with it and that should be enough for everyone else. What is the point of trying to talk into buyers remorse? Just be happy for and with the guy.

The guy did say, after all:

Originally Posted by skookum

Oh my God! Macs rule!

[skookum]

Ya know guys,

Apple is a hardware dealer. Always was, always will be. I bought an iMac because I wanted what they were marketing: a fast personal computer with as little clutter as possible (three wires, keys, mouse and screen), no tower, and an OS that supports some of the most useful and powerful video and graphic design software in the industry. Gaming, though important to me, was a secondary interest. I am thrilled that Bootcamp lets me run Vista for PC games, though the down side is I still have to run Vista. I am thrilled with the performance. And since I wonèt be hacking or otherwise altering my system in ways not recommended by the manufacturer, I have every confidence that either my system will work, or that Apple will replace my system if it screws up anytime in the next three years (Apple Care). All of my collegues who operate Macs have nothing but praise for them.

My iMac kicks the crap out of SH4. If you do not like that I like Apple, too bad. Iève had nothing but good experiences. And I am confident that this will continue.

Thank you for your concern.

[jazman]

Originally Posted by skookum

Thank you for your concern.

Your welcome. When I hear people gush, "Oh my God! Macs rule!" I start dialing up deprogrammers.

[Seminole]

:jazmanThe guy did say, after all:
Oh my God! Macs rule!

.....still.... now was that a good reason to go into a Cliff Clavin diatribe against MACs? MACs are what they are. Some people buy them. Some people use them. Some people like them. That ain't going to change.

He is obviously delighted with his new rig, wanted to share his happiness with us. I feel honored when someone does that. What is to be gained by dissing MACS to him? The last thing he wanted in the world was to hear something bad about his choice....:hmm:

...like a cartoon someone else posted here in another thread..if you are gonna try to correct everyone one on the internet you think is wrong..then you're sure as heck are going to have your hands full... ... I should at this point say...physician heal thyself...and shut-up myself.

Oh..yeah btw.. ... since my idiomatic language usage revealed that not all forum members are always familiar with my references...here is a page on Cliff Clavin..(scroll down to the "Wisdoms" section]...Cliff a Cheers character was widely known for freely sharing his opinions on..well just about anything... ..no offense..no offense.....theres a little Cliffie in all of us.