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| Author: | lazadisk [ Wed May 10, 2006 3:19 pm ] |
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Code J wrote: Um...Macs are probably the fastest desktop computer out there, if not, then close to the top. not the Macs at MY school. but, alas, they're about fifty-billion years old. I'm sure that the newer Macs are better, but I'm still Windows all the way! EDIT: yay! my first TOTBD!!!!! Is that how I spell it? top of the board dance? I think that sounds right... |
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| Author: | breadtangle o' pizza [ Wed May 10, 2006 5:09 pm ] |
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Beyond the Grave wrote: ramrod wrote: Yeah, if you had the money to spare. Those things cost a pretty penny. Yeah, but they are worth every penny.Not when you can self-build a comparable PC for much less. |
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| Author: | keneniah6 [ Thu May 11, 2006 11:13 pm ] |
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breadtangle o' pizza wrote: Beyond the Grave wrote: ramrod wrote: Yeah, if you had the money to spare. Those things cost a pretty penny. Yeah, but they are worth every penny.Not when you can self-build a comparable PC for much less. I dunno, it's getting pretty hard to beat a box (HP, Dell, or otherwise). Mostly for, you guessed it, Windows XP. |
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| Author: | Oasis [ Fri May 12, 2006 1:06 pm ] |
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I am using Mac OS X on an iMac Intel Core Duo. I used to have a PC, and I have to say; if you have one, throw it in the trash and by a Mac. Now. |
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| Author: | Occasional JD [ Fri May 12, 2006 1:45 pm ] |
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I use Windows. Don't particularly like it, but since this is a family computer... |
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| Author: | Bulldozer [ Fri May 12, 2006 3:17 pm ] |
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I used to be a Linux penguin, and I loved it to death. Unfortunately, Linux is not compatible with my Pocket PC, my Digital Camera, or Finale (Music Notation software), the first and last of which are absolutely vital and used on a daily basis. So, I had to move back into Windows. (Linux, get your act together! Let me use your wonderfulness again!) Code J wrote: Um...Macs are probably the fastest desktop computer out there, if not, then close to the top.
I dunno, I think Linux has that. There's an OpenGL (Awesome 3D effects) screensaver that's out for all three systems. I haven't tried it on a mac, but it worked smooth as glass on my Linux system, but wouldn't run at all on my Windows system, which was installed on a different partition of the same computer. It seems to me, though, that Linux launches programs a lot faster than the Mac OS X computers in the Music building's computer lab. |
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| Author: | HHFOV [ Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:27 pm ] |
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*cough* |
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| Author: | celticbrewer [ Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:36 pm ] |
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thefreakyblueman wrote: :mrgreen:
I'm the only Mac user here. I have the iBook G4 with Mac OSX. I recommend it to any Windows users.(If you have Windows XP, think that, but better and original, not copied) What are you talking about? Original? Not Copied? OSX is based on BSD which is unix. They just made it more "user friendly" for the computer illiterates. It's unoriginal and very copied. It says so on their own website: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ |
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| Author: | gwr2004 [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Why just one? |
I use Windows AND Linux... more specifically, Window$ XP and Debian Etch beta. I use GRUB to boot between the two, which is often. Why just have one operating system when you can have two? |
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| Author: | ButtdanceHR [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:17 pm ] |
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racerx_is_alive wrote: http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/features/switch/media/switch.mov
Ultimate Mac Gamer video [requires quicktime] Hillarious. Windows XP for me. I really like it. It gets the job done and is good for my gaming. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why just one? |
gwr2004 wrote: I use Windows AND Linux... more specifically, Window$ XP and Debian Etch beta. I use GRUB to boot between the two, which is often. Why just have one operating system when you can have two?
Why have two when one works just fine? My lappy is windows XP Pro. Works just fine. My office machine is a HORRIBLE build of Linux. CENTOS is the devil. |
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| Author: | gwr2004 [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:55 pm ] |
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StrongRad wrote: Why have two when one works just fine?
Because one just doesn't "work fine." |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:07 pm ] |
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gwr2004 wrote: StrongRad wrote: Why have two when one works just fine? Because one just doesn't "work fine." Good answer. 
I only have Windows here at home because all I do on my computer when I come home is just mess around on the net, maybe play a few games, but that's it. If I absolutely, positively must do work, I just VPN into the network back in the office and use my machine via puTTY. |
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| Author: | Acekirby [ Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:29 pm ] |
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Dang, this is an old topic. Anyway, I use Windows. It's easy to use. Plus, Mac people don't get a lot of computer games and whatnot. |
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| Author: | ramrod [ Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:13 am ] |
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Acekirby wrote: Anyway, I use Windows. It's easy to use. Plus, Mac people don't get a lot of computer games and whatnot. Well, games aren't all that matters. They can play a roll, but it's not all that matters.
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| Author: | Snailmail [ Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:08 pm ] |
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I own a Mac. Although I do use my MSX a bit. Playing the obvious game. Snake? Snake?!? Snaaaaaaakkkkkeeeee?!?!?!?! |
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| Author: | ready for prime time [ Sat Jul 01, 2006 1:20 am ] |
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i use windows, but when i do homework, i use my old mac SE. although, the school computers don't read documents typed on word 4.0 i really need to get my hands on an ImageWriter. |
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| Author: | Peter222 [ Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:55 pm ] |
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I use a Windows. Most people I know do too. |
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| Author: | inandoutburger [ Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:00 pm ] |
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I use Windows for most of my work, but occasionally I'll boot into Ubuntu Linux just for kicks. 
I want to get a Mac though. Those new Intel ones are seriously fast and can run Windows. Oh, and OSX roxors too. 
Seriously, No Loafing, you should have a choice for peole who use two or even three OSes - people do actually do that, you know. |
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| Author: | damik [ Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:14 pm ] |
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ramrod wrote: Acekirby wrote: Anyway, I use Windows. It's easy to use. Plus, Mac people don't get a lot of computer games and whatnot. Well, games aren't all that matters. They can play a roll, but it's not all that matters.I use Windows, and I have no intention of changing any time soon. |
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| Author: | Jello B. [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:30 am ] |
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inandoutburger wrote: Seriously, No Loafing, you should have a choice for peole who use two or even three OSes - people do actually do that, you know.
Yeah, I use both Windows and Linux. In fact, I'm in Windows right now because I had to use Flash. And where the crap is BSD? |
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| Author: | inandoutburger [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:06 am ] |
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Yeah, but I guess he's picked only all the OSes that the *mainstream press* has picked up on and thus recognizable to even every Joe and Jane Doe.
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| Author: | extremejon09 [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:07 am ] |
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Windows. Xbox-360 Quailty games for the win. |
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| Author: | Lu Bu [ Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:37 pm ] |
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Exactly. Plus, I get seizures trying to figure out how to do stuff macs, so windows is what I have. Never tried linux, I wonder how that would be...? |
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| Author: | damik [ Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:54 pm ] |
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Eek. Can this discussion die now plz? |
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| Author: | Jedi Master Ninks [ Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:27 am ] |
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Windows for me, I really dislike Macs, and their capabilities are far lower than that of a Windows computer. |
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| Author: | Alexander [ Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:00 pm ] |
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I'm quite normal. I have Windows XP on my laptop. It doesn't really matter to me what system I use. |
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| Author: | StrongRad [ Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:16 pm ] |
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Jedi Master Ninks wrote: Windows for me, I really dislike Macs, and their capabilities are far lower than that of a Windows computer.
You've never edited video on a windows box, have you? The only thing Windows boxes outdo Macs on are games (mainly because nobody makes games for Macs). Before you say "that's because Macs suck", remember this: There are (perhaps more important) uses for computers than games. |
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| Author: | Jedi Master Ninks [ Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:58 pm ] |
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OKay... But I never said that.... And if gaming is more important to me than editing videos, than what you said doesn't matter. What YOU think doesn't mean squat for me, it's about my preferences and I prefer Windows. Why are you trying to argue that. If I don't like Mac, does that really have to mean all that much to you. I just don't like Mac's, and everyone I've been on can't run a program for crap. |
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| Author: | Inverse Tiger [ Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:06 pm ] |
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Linux/XP dual boot. Linux is the default. I only go into XP for iTunes sometimes and if something absolutely needs XP to work (like a Flash 8 site.. My Linux only has a poorly-programmed Flash 7 plugin). Got Ubuntu Dapper Drake going, and it's working rrrl rrrl well. I've been trying to get Linux working on a compy for almost a decade now, and this is the first time it's actually worked. It works on the lappy too. So Linux is actually almost easy enough for the casual tinkerer. (It still took like a week total out of my life to figure it all out tho) This is good cuz I don't have to do much. I got my NES and SNES emulators, dosbox, and that's really all I need for games. I don't do amazing video editing, so Kino works fine. Linux = if you're programming or not doing anything amazing and just like the [s]communist[/s] free software concept, this is for you! TOTP(Imagine a dancing Tux the Linux Penguin)D |
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