bye bye PC hello Mac

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

I will not argue that Macs are capable machines, and for those who can't bother to take care of their system, are much simpler to use. Please do not take that last statement as an implication of laziness.

I just can't justify the extra cost for an Apple system versus a PC. Price vs. performance is unmatched if you build a PC for yourself. I have the unfair advantage of being technologically intuitive, so maintaining a PC is no biggie. In fact, I don't even have any type of protection on my system. It's been that way for 5 years and I haven't had a problem that was caused by outside sources other than myself.

I can vouch for the burned legs c/o HP laptops. My sister had an HP... Seems like companies who start with the letter "A" make good stuff. As in Acer or Asus. My sister has the Acer, and my Mom has the Asus. Both of which I recommended to them, and they are working great.

So I guess all I can say is: "To each his own." ...and leave it at that.

I always built my computers as well. The last OEM I had (other than the said cheapie laptop) was an Acer with a Pentium 75, which I later overclocked to 90mhz, w00t! My most favorite pc was a ~'98 asus 440bx MB based computer. It started life as a 300mhz slot1 celeron/ 24mb ram, and was my main comp until ~2004, when it had an OC'd P3 tualatin @1.6mhz/ 512mb ram that was faster than a lot of the early P4s. You actually had to rewire some of the pins on that last processor to get it to work in the bx. Def not mac friendly lol.

I had a p4 comp for a little while, but soon replaced that one with a C2D/socket 775 board in 2005. The S775 processors are just now really being phased out, so I may hold on a bit and pick up a quad core for cheap and just run that for a several more years. I don't game anymore, so the most intensive thing I need it for is occasional vid editing. Getting 7-8yrs out of a comp and staying relatively state of the art the whole time is awesome. I always bought inexpensive but quality components, and rarely ever had issues. Still have and use older Hdds and dvd drives that have moved from one comp to the next. The 10yo black Chieftec case I have still looks sweet.
Lost lots of usb and firewire cards to static tho... I doubt I've spent $1500 on comp parts in the last 10 yrs.

[Modding_out]

You will burn in cyber space for defecting to the company with the halve eaten apple logo

[E-Revonut]

Originally Posted by Modding_out

You will burn in cyber space for defecting to the company with the halve eaten apple logo

I guess I'm gonna burn then! The first computers I ever used where Apple IIE's back in elementary and middle school. Never had a computer living at home, got my first one in 2003. Started with a HP desktop that did ok, went to a Compaq laptop that lasted 4 years and never gave me a problem until it suddenly died. My HP laptop that just died was 3 years old and has been nothing but a POS for the last year and a half. I got my first and only ipod when they first released the ipod video like 4 years ago or however long ago it was. It has never given me a problem and it's used everyday, I'm sure the battery isn't up to par anymore, but since it's hooked up to the radio in my truck and is powered that way it doesn't matter anyways. My iphones have been great phones and have kept me in touch with people and the internet even when my HP laptop had died. I can honestly say I don't think I will ever look back!

[rawfuls]

Originally Posted by E-Revonut

I guess I'm gonna burn then! The first computers I ever used where Apple IIE's back in elementary and middle school. Never had a computer living at home, got my first one in 2003. Started with a HP desktop that did ok, went to a Compaq laptop that lasted 4 years and never gave me a problem until it suddenly died. My HP laptop that just died was 3 years old and has been nothing but a POS for the last year and a half. I got my first and only ipod when they first released the ipod video like 4 years ago or however long ago it was. It has never given me a problem and it's used everyday, I'm sure the battery isn't up to par anymore, but since it's hooked up to the radio in my truck and is powered that way it doesn't matter anyways. My iphones have been great phones and have kept me in touch with people and the internet even when my HP laptop had died. I can honestly say I don't think I will ever look back!

I'm in the same boat as you are with the iPods!

I bought my very first iPod, the 5.5G iPod Video, a month or two later the iPod Classic came out, boy was I pissed, 50 more GB for the same price? Yes, I actually use 30GB..

I STILL use it every day (when I go running, boy is it heavy now compared to the iPod Touch), I switched out the battery, which is quite easy to do btw, I'd recommend you do it if you need to..

And the iPod touch I now have, has left me happy!

One day on a Pupil-Free Day (noschool!) my hard drive decided to explode on me, literally, no way was it coming back, if it weren't for my iPod, I would've gone insane, I was on my iPod Touch day and night! Talking to friends via AIM, and even on RC-Monster!

My English teacher told me a funny story the other day, she's kinda mad at Apple, even though I guess you could consider her a diehard Apple fan.

Her very first laptop (A PowerBook G3 or G4 I believe), oldest of the old, she dropped it at least 20 times in class (once in my period! Smack down on the screen and hard drive), and it still works perfect.

The other day she dropped her newer Macbook Pro on her bed and it went poofed. Hard drive was corrupted.

She was furious because all our essays were saved on there

Needless to say I got an A..

Then she saw the "iPad" and thought it was a joke, an oversized iPhone without the phone!

Threadjack over.

[rawfuls]

Originally Posted by Finnster

I always built my computers as well. The last OEM I had (other than the said cheapie laptop) was an Acer with a Pentium 75, which I later overclocked to 90mhz, w00t! My most favorite pc was a ~'98 asus 440bx MB based computer. It started life as a 300mhz slot1 celeron/ 24mb ram, and was my main comp until ~2004, when it had an OC'd P3 tualatin @1.6mhz/ 512mb ram that was faster than a lot of the early P4s. You actually had to rewire some of the pins on that last processor to get it to work in the bx. Def not mac friendly lol.

I had a p4 comp for a little while, but soon replaced that one with a C2D/socket 775 board in 2005. The S775 processors are just now really being phased out, so I may hold on a bit and pick up a quad core for cheap and just run that for a several more years. I don't game anymore, so the most intensive thing I need it for is occasional vid editing. Getting 7-8yrs out of a comp and staying relatively state of the art the whole time is awesome. I always bought inexpensive but quality components, and rarely ever had issues. Still have and use older Hdds and dvd drives that have moved from one comp to the next. The 10yo black Chieftec case I have still looks sweet.
Lost lots of usb and firewire cards to static tho... I doubt I've spent $1500 on comp parts in the last 10 yrs.

You may wanna look into the AMD Athlon II X4 620... Its' a rather cheap quad core.. Runs well, even gaming..

I've still an intel fanboy using an AMD CPU.. I need Intel to go onto a sale!