Windows 7

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

You turn turn your avatar into a anti fan/paint/Win7 now also?

Don't forget seatbelts too. lol

Brian's got some work to do. I hope W7 have gif editing proggies.

[BrianG]

lol, if I were to animate all the things I have a problem with, the animation would be FAR too large to use as an avatar. So, I'll just stick to things R/C related to gripe about. What can I say, I'm opinionated.

[squeeforever]

Originally Posted by MTBikerTim

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[BP-Revo]

Let's not start a Windows vs Mac war. I have an iPhone yet I have a Dell Laptop and a custom desktop I built myself. I use whatever works best.

That being said, I don't use Apple Laptops/Desktops because I'm an engineering student and SolidWorks just doesn't work on them and not to mention you can get much more for your money buying a PC. Yes, it's a little more user intensive requiring to work out a few more bugs and to deal with more settings yourself (if you want to make the most of it, at least). With a Mac it's "if it doesn't work, buy our version of the software - if none exists, sorry."

However, I would not trade my iPhone for any other phone. I just can't see any Windows mobile phone or whatever they call it getting anything near the iPhone. I have an iTouch too and I have to say that I'd also take that over any other "Mp3 player" cause the iTouch is more than that.

I will have to say that, in my opinion, the iPad has a VERY limited target group.

I have a 17" desktop replacement laptop, and an iPhone. So I have a HUGE "portable" device to the smallest one (that I conveniently always have on me because it's my phone). So if anything I'd want to get something right in the middle. I wouldn't want an iPad because it's just my phone with a bigger screen. At that point I'd buy a netbook (a powerful one though, I was looking at an Asus 12" with an Intel DualCore and dedicated Nvidia graphics card).

I'd say an iPad is only really logical for someone with a huge laptop (or a laptop with poor battery life) and a "dumb" phone (aka, not a smartphone - one that texts and calls and thats it).

[squeeforever]

Originally Posted by BP-Revo

Let's not start a Windows vs Mac war. I have an iPhone yet I have a Dell Laptop and a custom desktop I built myself. I use whatever works best.

That being said, I don't use Apple Laptops/Desktops because I'm an engineering student and SolidWorks just doesn't work on them and not to mention you can get much more for your money buying a PC. Yes, it's a little more user intensive requiring to work out a few more bugs and to deal with more settings yourself (if you want to make the most of it, at least). With a Mac it's "if it doesn't work, buy our version of the software - if none exists, sorry."

However, I would not trade my iPhone for any other phone. I just can't see any Windows mobile phone or whatever they call it getting anything near the iPhone. I have an iTouch too and I have to say that I'd also take that over any other "Mp3 player" cause the iTouch is more than that.

I will have to say that, in my opinion, the iPad has a VERY limited target group.

I have a 17" desktop replacement laptop, and an iPhone. So I have a HUGE "portable" device to the smallest one (that I conveniently always have on me because it's my phone). So if anything I'd want to get something right in the middle. I wouldn't want an iPad because it's just my phone with a bigger screen. At that point I'd buy a netbook (a powerful one though, I was looking at an Asus 12" with an Intel DualCore and dedicated Nvidia graphics card).

I'd say an iPad is only really logical for someone with a huge laptop (or a laptop with poor battery life) and a "dumb" phone (aka, not a smartphone - one that texts and calls and thats it).

At least for me, the iPad would be a good way to go because of what you said at the end there. My laptop isn't really huge (17.3") but has a completely shitty battery life because of the power it has. All I would need it for would be simple internet things, which I can't stand doing on my phone because of the small screen. Its just not big enough to even get on here without being a huge PITA and I don't think I would really need anything more than what the iPad offers so no need for a netbook really, but thats just me. Only downside is the price is a little high.

[BP-Revo]

Based on what you do, an iPad would be great.

How can you call a 17.3" laptop "not huge" !?

Mine is a 17" as well (Dell XPS M1730) and I think it's huge (I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I knew how big it was when I bought it and I like that it's huge).

But I'll agree, battery life sucks. I have 2 Video Cards + a Physics card, 2 HD's, backlit full-size keyboard w/ numpad, a secondary LCD that displays crap like time and date, ram/cpu usage, news, what song I'm playing, and a bunch of ambient effect lights.

Just surfing the web with Wifi with screen at full brightness, I get 45 minutes. Turning the screen to it's dimmest setting and turning off all the lights and keyboard backlight, I get an extra 5 minutes...

I've gotten as little as 35 minutes of battery before off a full charge...

[BrianG]

Can't you guys underclock the CPU or something when on battery?

[BP-Revo]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Can't you guys underclock the CPU or something when on battery?

Yeah, I can scale it down, but with Vista as my OS it'll never leave the start-up screen.

[squeeforever]

Originally Posted by BP-Revo

Based on what you do, an iPad would be great.

How can you call a 17.3" laptop "not huge" !?

Mine is a 17" as well (Dell XPS M1730) and I think it's huge (I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I knew how big it was when I bought it and I like that it's huge).

But I'll agree, battery life sucks. I have 2 Video Cards + a Physics card, 2 HD's, backlit full-size keyboard w/ numpad, a secondary LCD that displays crap like time and date, ram/cpu usage, news, what song I'm playing, and a bunch of ambient effect lights.

Just surfing the web with Wifi with screen at full brightness, I get 45 minutes. Turning the screen to it's dimmest setting and turning off all the lights and keyboard backlight, I get an extra 5 minutes...

I've gotten as little as 35 minutes of battery before off a full charge...

Meh, size isn't my main problem, its just that I only get about a hour and a half or two hours if I'm lucky with the battery. It's really not that big. Acer said it was the lightest 17" laptop on the market. I think it weighs about 6lbs.

[BP-Revo]

Originally Posted by squeeforever

Meh, size isn't my main problem, its just that I only get about a hour and a half or two hours if I'm lucky with the battery. It's really not that big. Acer said it was the lightest 17" laptop on the market. I think it weighs about 6lbs.

You get over an HOUR!?

Actually the is more of a response towards the weight. 6lbs is LIGHT! Wow... my old laptop is a 15.4 and it was 9lbs! (Dell Inspiron 8600).

My current one is a tank. ~11lbs. The power supply is an additional 1.5lbs.

[squeeforever]

Yea, its pretty small for its size (if that makes sense? lol). I really wish I wouldn't have gotten it though. The keyboard is nice, but kinda fragile, the harddrive is kinda small (320gig), and the charge port is giving me problems, as well as it gets HOT! But other than that...

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[BrianG]

Classic!

The funniest thing I think I've heard in a while was when my fiancee and I were "discussing" the virtue (or lack thereof) of Macs. She said that Macs "are designed for work, not games". What? Even gaming aside, the best part is when she needs pretty much anything done besides surfing or graphics, she uses my PC. Of course, I just give her my smug little grin because we both know I won.

Then she brings up the whole virus thing. Which of course everyone knows that if Mac had a smidge more than 0.01% market share (j/k mac-heads; don't get upset), virus authors would attack them too.

[Finnster]

Brian's new avatar. To have been posted yesterday, had my windows desktop not crashed and unable to be fixed until tonite. lol

[BrianG]

Too large for an avatar.

Actually, my gripe list would look something like this:
- Idiots in general: 45%
- Fans (in r/c): 20%
- Painting shells which just get wrecked anyway: 15%
- Windows 7/vista (and Macs too): 15%
- A few extra % points saved for something I might have forgotten, or to apply to one of the other categories depending on the day/mood: 5%