New Toy

skookum · 09-17-08, 04:53 AM

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 · 09-17-08, 07:19 AM

Congratulations!...

SteamWake · 09-17-08, 08:45 AM

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

Glad your happy with your new toy.

skookum · 09-17-08, 11:26 PM

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 · 09-18-08, 05:48 AM

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 · 09-18-08, 07:29 AM

Quote:

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.

09-17-08, 04:53 AM	#1
skookum Weps Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 351 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	New Toy 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! __________________

09-17-08, 07:19 AM	#2
Seminole Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Congratulations!... __________________

09-17-08, 11:26 PM	#4
skookum Weps Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 351 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	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' __________________ Last edited by skookum; 09-18-08 at 05:19 AM.

09-18-08, 05:48 AM	#5
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	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. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

09-17-08, 08:45 AM	#3
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I like my mac's with cheese and sausage. :p Glad your happy with your new toy.