I think I made my decision. I'm offing my iMac in a favor of a custom-built i7 monster which will be jointly inhabited by OSx86, an as yet undecided Linux distro, and Windows 7.
My iMac's 3.06ghz core 2 duo just doesn't make me feel good enough about myself when I go to bed at night. and the stupid thing can only handle 4gb of DDR2 RAM. it's bullshit. with this new beast I plan to eventually install 16 or 24gb of RAM and dedicate half of it to a photoshop swap drive, which may be supremely ridiculous.
rprted 4 wrong bord
hope you stay absorbed with your new computer so i don't have to hear your macfaggotry
-felt
Quote from: OMGCLUCKY on June 27, 2009, 05:41:00 PM
hope you stay absorbed with your new computer so i don't have to hear your macfaggotry
-felt
felt you are so insensitive where did i go wrong
Quote from: Stupid Fucking Slut on June 27, 2009, 05:44:16 PM
felt you are so insensitive where did i go wrong
clucky you are so insensitive where did i go wrong
Quote from: Det in Fââ,,¢Â¯ Major on June 27, 2009, 05:56:00 PM
clucky you are so insensitive where did i go wrong
it's encoded in my dna to behave that way
appeasement;
Holy shit man
Sounds good thumbup;
what will become of your imac
Debian
or better yet
Gentoo
DO IT
Quote from: Pqqu on June 27, 2009, 06:23:21 PM
Debian
or better yet
Gentoo
DO IT
it will likely be fedora
And for the same reasons I don't use my Mac. I never understood why anyone other than 13 year old girls would want a Mac when they can get a monster PC for the same price. The only "advantages" I've heard of that a Mac has is a lighter OS, which isn't really a big deal anymore since any decent computer has atleast 4GBs of RAM.
Uh to be fair the 4GB RAM limit on your Mac has to do with 32-bit processors, not the Mac.
A Core 2 Duo does have 64 bit functionality, and uh that will be taken care of in Snow Leopard. The machines are expensive though.
Quote from: Cookie on June 28, 2009, 11:54:28 AM
any decent computer has atleast 4GBs of RAM.
doodhuh;
Quote from: Hïro on June 28, 2009, 03:15:13 PM
doodhuh;
Don't worry, next week any decent computer will have eight gigs, minimum.
Quote from: Canard Diapason Funambule on June 28, 2009, 03:24:39 PM
Don't worry, next week any decent computer will have eight gigs, minimum.
A usable computer is 1 gig, a decent computer is 2 gigs, 3 is very nice, 4 is crazy good, anything higher is unnecessary.
Quote from: Hïro on June 28, 2009, 03:27:19 PM
A usable computer is 1 gig, a decent computer is 2 gigs, 3 is very nice, 4 is crazy good, anything higher is unnecessary.
The computer that I used for four straight years prior to a few months ago had 512mb of ram spam;
Quote from: Henry Hatsworth on June 28, 2009, 04:20:37 PM
The computer that I used for four straight years prior to a few months ago had 512mb of ram spam;
That's what mine has, got it in 2005 spam;
i can't even afford a 1366 socket motherboard
My new computer has 4 gigs of ram. Its very nice.
but arnt macs the best computer?
Quote from: Henry Hatsworth on June 28, 2009, 04:20:37 PM
The computer that I used for four straight years prior to a few months ago had 512mb of ram spam;
Psh, amateur. The one I had for four years until 4 days ago had 256mb. hocuspocus;
Now I've got 6 Gigs. giggle;
Quote from: Thyme on June 30, 2009, 09:01:07 AM
Psh, amateur. The one I had for four years until 4 days ago had 256mb. hocuspocus;
Now I've got 6 Gigs. giggle;
Well you didn't have Windows XP family edition with 10 different accounts that my brother made slowing yours down.
Regardless, didn't it feel awesome to finally get a worthwhile computer?
Quote from: Henry Hatsworth on June 30, 2009, 10:12:02 AM
Regardless, didn't it feel awesome to finally get a worthwhile computer?
Oh, yes. It still feels awesome, actually. giggle;
Quote from: Thyme on June 30, 2009, 09:01:07 AM
Psh, amateur. The one I had for four years until 4 days ago had 256mb. hocuspocus;
Now I've got 6 Gigs. giggle;
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Quote from: Trevor on June 28, 2009, 05:32:36 PM
i can't even afford a 1366 socket motherboard
a cheap intel one is like $150 I think
Quote from: wziard on July 01, 2009, 11:41:16 AM
a cheap intel one is like $150 I think
let me rephrase this, i can barely afford a cheap socket 775 motherboard :'(
i need like $40-50 to get at least a halfway decent one and that money is scarce, especially with my job
Quote from: Trevor on July 02, 2009, 06:39:00 AM
let me rephrase this, i can barely afford a cheap socket 775 motherboard :'(
i need like $40-50 to get at least a halfway decent one and that money is scarce, especially with my job
yeah don't try to build a computer on the cheap
shit motherboards are shit
Have fun with that.
Quote from: Thyme on June 30, 2009, 09:01:07 AM
Psh, amateur. The one I had for four years until 4 days ago had 256mb. hocuspocus;
Now I've got 6 Gigs. giggle;
who the hell needs 6 gb of ram?
Quote from: Ken on July 06, 2009, 01:14:02 AM
who the hell needs 6 gb of ram?
'Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!' -- Bill Gates, 1981
lol the eighties
Quote from: Ken on July 06, 2009, 01:14:02 AM
who the hell needs 6 gb of ram?
if he were doing rigorous video editing he would want more than that, but for any other reason you don't really even need that much
not even for gaming
Quote from: Trevor on July 06, 2009, 07:28:49 AM
if he were doing rigorous video editing he would want more than that, but for any other reason you don't really even need that much
not even for gaming
Of course not for gaming doodhuh;
I need it (and probably more) for Photoshop and other CS4 apps, because when you're doing large projects with either huge files (like 500mb PSDs) or a shitload of files, it has to store them all in RAM while you're working on them, or else start using your hard drive for virtual RAM, which usually happens, and leads to frustration. the solution is more RAM and in the future (i.e. when I have more money) I will get enough (16gb or so when 4gb dimms become cheap) to make a dedicated photoshop swap drive in the ram, which will be very very fast.