The Official 2nd Gen RAM Forum OT thread
Legend
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From: Austin, TX
I have a Dell desktop upstairs that is at least 10 years old (and lacking the speed I desire - Dimesnion 4500 - may be older than 10 yrs!) but it is built like a truck. Huge and heavy. But too slow for Photoshop. Running XP pro on it. Laptop is more current with XP Pro as well, but work laptop i running Windows 7. Never liked Vista so I ran XPP at the organization I used to run, and was just migrating to Win 7. Kind of forced into it....
Macs seem great for photographers I know, and most publishers use them. Just short on some business applications unless that has changed over thenlast couple of years. But those I know with Macs are happy with them, although most of them upgrade as opposed to keeping them for a number of years.
Macs seem great for photographers I know, and most publishers use them. Just short on some business applications unless that has changed over thenlast couple of years. But those I know with Macs are happy with them, although most of them upgrade as opposed to keeping them for a number of years.
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I'm using steam now, I've like almost 20gb just in games installed right now, when I get the chance there is another AT LEAST 3gb gonna be installed.
My dad's was measured in MB, not GB.
My first was 20, then 80, now 250 and 320 for my powerhouse and laptop respectively.
Legend
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From: Central Oklahoma
Mac and PC are aimed at two different groups. PC is more mainstream, Mac is more specialized. If I was going to be doing heavy 3d design, or video/audio editing, I would want a Mac. For just about anything else, PC can do it just as well, for half the price.
Everyone has varying experiences with their hardware. When I worked at the ISP, we had our DNS running on a ten year old 386 machine. It was 15 when it finally gave up the ghost. I have had PC's last years, I have had them last days..... (warranty is a wonderful thing.) To flatly state that one is 'better' than the other, all depends on what you want to do with it. If you wanna play most of the mainstream games, don't buy a Mac..... (which is where my motivations lay....) Sure, most of the Mac's these days are intel-based, which means they CAN run Windows, but, I really don't see the point of paying more for the same hardware, just to install an O/S on it, so it will do what I want. (which is yet another additional expense.) Would rather spend the same amount of money on hardware, and get 30% more performance out of it..... I don't need a Mac for anything I do, and it WON'T do what I want it to.
Everyone has varying experiences with their hardware. When I worked at the ISP, we had our DNS running on a ten year old 386 machine. It was 15 when it finally gave up the ghost. I have had PC's last years, I have had them last days..... (warranty is a wonderful thing.) To flatly state that one is 'better' than the other, all depends on what you want to do with it. If you wanna play most of the mainstream games, don't buy a Mac..... (which is where my motivations lay....) Sure, most of the Mac's these days are intel-based, which means they CAN run Windows, but, I really don't see the point of paying more for the same hardware, just to install an O/S on it, so it will do what I want. (which is yet another additional expense.) Would rather spend the same amount of money on hardware, and get 30% more performance out of it..... I don't need a Mac for anything I do, and it WON'T do what I want it to.
Pretty much. As an aside, I don't understand why anyone with a Mac would want to install Windows on a partition and boot to it. What would be so fascinating about seeing the Blue Screen of Death on a Mac?
The Mini is awesome due to its diminutive size. Right now I have mine connected to my TV so I can stream Netflix and online content. If/when I decide to relocate it doing so isn't near the chore moving a PC is.
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Pretty much. As an aside, I don't understand why anyone with a Mac would want to install Windows on a partition and boot to it. What would be so fascinating about seeing the Blue Screen of Death on a Mac?
The Mini is awesome due to its diminutive size. Right now I have mine connected to my TV so I can stream Netflix and online content. If/when I decide to relocate it doing so isn't near the chore moving a PC is.
The Mini is awesome due to its diminutive size. Right now I have mine connected to my TV so I can stream Netflix and online content. If/when I decide to relocate it doing so isn't near the chore moving a PC is.
I only see BSOD on customer machines.
