ohio_wookie

yeah, macintosh is switching to x86. im wasnt to excited when i found out, but its turning out to be pretty nice. plus with the new x86 core duo, they now have the fastest laptop on the market. Which is cool, the only problem with the ppc was the fact that they ran so hot, thats why you never saw a g5 laptop. Thats how computers and technology works, you fucking genius. But the point im makeing is, if you went out and bought one of the fastest pcs with watercooling and dual 64bit processors for $3500 a year and a half ago, you wouldnt get more than $1000 out of it now.

being 1000 pcs to every mac makes me think of the mac as being more of a lotus and the pc being the run of the mill vehicle that anybody could co out and throw a cooling system or a processor swap onto to make themselves fell faster. and chris did you not read my previous post? especially now with the intel switch, macintosh is going to become more of a gameing machine. before with the powerpc arch the developers hardly ever made mac ports because of the time and effort that went into the conversion from x86 to ppc. but now that macs will use the x86 it will be a whole lot easier for them to do the ports, and help eliminate the huge amount of time between pc and mac releases. Trust me, im in the game/simulation engineering field, macintosh will be the future of gameing. Instead of them porting everything from pc, it will be the other way around. Edit: hell yeah you can right click, i use a 5 button mouse on my mac, and it works great! the only thing that really sucks about mac is that hoof mouse. back in the early years of mac, when they were using the two button mouse, they realized that the right button caused to much confusion with tech support. so they gave the user the option to be able to use a one or two button mouse. thats one of the reasons why when you call mac tech support ( not that you would ever need to ) you can talk to a good old fashion english speaking american whom lives in california. and mac technicians dont cost any more, theyre not that much differnt then pc. and macintosh has great support for anything that goes wrong with your computer. all you have to do is take it into the local apple store and its fixed in no time. also the only hardware problem ive ever had with a mac, was my power supply went out on my powerbook. i called apple and the overnighted me a new one, no questions asked. i got it early the next day, before my battery had died. again dont go assuming things. do just a little research before claiming things.

A. BF2 and Source suck, and 1.6 is available for the mac. B. If all you look at while purchasing a computer is the ability to play fanboy games like BF2 and Source, your a fucking loser. Also if your just buying a computer for games, buy a console ( dont even retort to this, i know the reasons you give ) also, the only games that are out for windows that you cant get ( for the most part ) for os x are games like BF2 and Valves line. Short list of os x games available: Doom 3 Quake 4 Call of Duty Call of Duty 2 Sims 2 Halo (interesting enough, was made for os x before windows) Neverwinter nights Colin Mcrae Rally The list goes on. Plus you can play all the open source free games from the linux community. Also as far as everyone thinking that macs are only good for only the artsy stuff like photoshop, tell me one just ONE thing that you cant do on a mac, that a pc will do better in. Again dont retort with a comment about HalfLife 2 or BF2. From server use, audio/video, 3d graphics, gameing anything you name it a macintosh is better. And for those of you that complain about the cost, like i said before, apple uses the best of the best in computer technology. So when you buy a mac you can be sure that you have the best hardware available. So there is no cheap generic part that comes built into your mac. This also helps with the fact that, with fewer combinations of hardware you can stick into your computer, the less of a chance that your audiocard and your video card conflicting with each other. also it allows your computer to run the best it can for each one of those components and allows you to never have to worry about drivers. thats why on a macintosh for scanners, printers, cameras and every other peripheral that you can burden your computer with the all just work. the way i look at it pc users are the ricers of the computer community. with the ability to spend fewer dollars for a computer that looks all pretty with lights and fancy cases with specs that look good and an operating system that crashes all the time. but in the end your shit is slow and worthless.

How do you figure on both of those statements. Your paying for quality. Macs have the best parts all the way around. Also your getting the superior processor architecture, the PPC was one of the best processors on the planet, so good that all they had to do was string 1,100 PowerMac G5s together and they had the second fastest supercomputer on the planet. Beaten only by the earth computer. And now with the X86 macs coming out, shows just how inferior pcs really are. They work off the same instruction set, and thats about where the similarities end. Also, I use pc and mac side by side daily, i do similar tasks on each from codeing to gameing and video/image editing, 3d modeling and rendering is what ive been doing a lot lately. I know for a fact that macintosh out performes pcs in every way shape and form. I might hold your opinons a little higher, if they were a little more educated. Oh yeah, Ben, isn't CR being hosted on a Mac

Just sold my PowerMac G5 on eBay. I have had this computer for a year and 5 months now. Bought it new for $3500, and just sold it for $2000. You would never be able to get that kind of a turn around with a pc. My current pc cost me $1500 to build 5 months ago, and now it aint worth shit. Just thought I would share

yeah, you need 2.0 or lower to downgrade. there are alternatives like eloader. but ive never used those, so im not sure how well they work. If anyone sees this post before 9pm, i have one psp with the 1.5 firmware on ebay (look in the garage sale).

Whats this movie everyone is talking about? Seriously though, for those of you who saw the movie in the theaters, did they change the car he races in the porsche in the begining?

from a computer engineering standpoint, i think the technology is pretty sweet. and would those even be legal?

You upgraded with the GTA disk right, if you would like, we can meet up again and I could downgrade it and hook you up with some mods. Ill also pm you.

I did that a long time ago

haha, burn!

damn dude that sucks, here i am thinking i had it bad with mine being on a wednsday. but a fucking monday! im sorry dude. lol. happy birthday!

there isnt much that pisses me off more than drunk drivers, except maybe the fact that a cop would show favortism and actually let a drunk driver off, i think that pisses me off more. way to go on being an ass :thumbdown:

Sooooo.... When you selling it? -Kip

The Esprit in 1990 $81,316.69 adjusted for inflation $120,945.43 The MR2 in 1987 $12,578 adjusted for inflation $21,144.29 The DeLorean in 1983 $25,000 adjusted for inflation $56,000 and they are now being refurbished and sold by the DeLorean Motor Company ( no relation to DMC ) starting at $42,500

apparently video games dont make you violent. just turns you into a big fat pussy.

yeah, ill definatly take a look at it. just email me your phone number and such, and I will call you later this week when I'm in columbus. Should be tuesday or wednesday. ohio_wookie@yahoo.com

whats your current firmware version? I have lots of experience.

ok now they work

I wanted $2000 for the Powermac (I think thats low, but I reallllllly need the money) Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5 Processors (factory water cooled) 1.5GB DDR SDRAM GeForce 6800 Ultra 2 SATA Hard drives adding up to 260GB DVR-108 SuperDrive (Ability to write DL DVDs) I will also include a spindle of 25 DL DVD-Rs (yay, a $30 value!!!!) I wanted $250 from my RC car Its an HPI RS4 SS Nitro powered With and Aluminum exhaust and racing super slicks and has an RC I wanted $300 from my RC truck Its a Traxxas Tmaxx 2.5 with aluminum braces it also has the quickstarter and RC and the two psps one with 3 games: GTA Liberty City Stories Ridge Racer NFS Underground its still has everthing that it came with, headphones, remote included i wanted $250 one with out anything, just it and the powercord i wanted $200 I also have 2 modded xboxs for sale, they both have 200GB Hard drive Artic Silver Thermal paste ATA133 cables (oh yeah, it makes a difference) one has an Xecuter 3CE chip, and the other has a Xenium ICE They dont have anything on them, since i was going to put them on ebay. but if someone on here wants one of them, i could hook you up with emulators/vintage games and all kinds of cool software. but all i want out of these are $350 each, thats less than what i have into them. if anyone is interested just let me know, i can send you some pics and more information on any of this stuff ( who would have thought that buying a house would cost soooo much )

yeah mybad, they all start friday at 7pm.

Just in case anyone is interested These are eBay item numbers for those of you who dont know. Feel free to bid them up for me Powermac 5881397647 RC car 6044419080 RC truck 6044414113 PSP with goodies 8268865882 PSP with errr... itself 8268866471 EDIT: They work now.

i didnt think about this before, i dont think you can install an os on the partion that the install data is on. but i think that your going to need to put the contents of the iso either on another partition or onto an external device. i would definatly suggest that latter.

you know what i think, O.J. did it. but in my opinion i think that everything about that day is bullshit no matter who fucking did it. i think people are so busy pointing fingures that they fail to notice that this shit like this goes on constantly (twa flight 800, oklahoma). and if everyone would just stop arguing over whos right (because the truth of the matter is, we will never know) only then will we be able to stop shit like this from happening.

i think its funny because everybody is still complaining about os 9 and os x has been out for ten years now. os x has none of those problems. its like me using windows 3.1 problems to make fun of windows