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Offline Waccoon

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Re: A500 for the 21th century
« on: October 01, 2004, 04:33:54 AM »
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They just build a PC in A500 concept!

I shuffle my keyboard around a lot.  I never realized how much the A1200 form factor sucked until I tried to move it around to take strain off my wrists.  I prefer the Pizza Box machine, myself.

The A1000 had the best form factor ever for what you got.  Has any other computer in history had a keyboard garage?  :-)

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could be nice but I was after marketshare and usage rather than formfactor.

Three words: local computer shop.  Cheap prebuilt systems from Compaq, Dell, HP and other are complete CRAP compared to a custom machine built by people who know better.

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There is no DPaint on pc, no Protracker and the demoscene seems to be dead.

There was a scene for the PC?  :-)

"Oekaki" is the new DPaint, and there's always ModPlug Tracker.

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Thats lost forever today people buy $$$$-PCs just to play the latest Wolfenstein-clone with improved graphics.

Today's games don't scale anywhere near as well as they should, and they aren't very balanced, either.  It bothers me that Unreal Tournament 2004 pretty much expects a kick-bottom video card, but assumes you don't have a DVD drive.  I mean, is it really necessary to distribute the game on *SIX* CDs?

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I got my G5 iMac last week, it's been on non stop for 4 days and is still VERY cool to the touch

I hated the iMac.  I hated the "new" iMac.  I hated the Cube.  The iMac G5 is acutally pretty damn cool.  The best Pizza Box ever.  :-)

Do cables cause problems where the display swivels on its own, or misbalances the display?  Can you lock the display into a particular position?