mac and pc sucks!!!!

[the_leander]

Would this be a bad time to pearoast the butthurt form?

I'm good ta. But have at it if you want :lol:

On a serious note, it's not slurs or even stereotypes that bug me (hell the now deleted thread should have stood as testament to that), it's folk getting offended on other groups behalf.

Hmm, well at least I've found material for my next blog post.

[Karlos]

Hmm, well at least I've found material for my next blog post.

All part of the service :lol:

[Fisketryne]

Actually, given the fact that it suggests the gay person would choose the Mac over the cheap hulking mess of a Dell, to me would be a compliment to the gay person...

This. And also: My response to the post with the two pictures and gay remarks was not in support. Just clarifying. Totally cool with it being deleted though.

Edit: Kind of. But whatever.

[Amiga_Nut]

yeah, I'd love a commodore style "laptop without monitor" PC rather than these big boxes

A laptop without a monitor is like a supercar on 13" inch wheels and tractor tyres!

Technically you should be able to get a whole PC in the spaces left by a normal keyboard, but the compromises are too great in CPU and GPU really so I stick with an ATI/Nvidia based notebook with a 17" screen. Adequate for most tasks (except web page testing/design) for me.

[Amiga_Nut]

@ Amiga_Nut: "...hulking great boxes making a racket and taking up miles of space..." - I agree that desktops certainly take up more space than laptops, but the noise issue is exactly opposite IMO - I haven't encountered a laptop yet that would be as quiet as I want it to be. OTOH building a near silent desktop is very easy if you know how to do it. Plus - having the machine under your desk instead of on top of it helps a lot in this regard.

I have 3 laptops (although 1 is for the home cinema stuff) and between them they're excellent  choices. The Dell 9400 serves me well for whatever I would do on a desktop, although this obviously depends exactly what you do with your computer ie HD Movie file transcoding etc, and my silent but efficient IBM X40 which runs Windows7 well (although I choose to only use XP....those extra gigs are useful for my work).

A desktop will never be as silent as a laptop and a laptop never as powerful as a desktop. It's all compromise anyway.

[gaula92]

That's not true.

Apple Mac Mini (2009): Desktop & always totally silent.

[koshman]

@ Amiga_Nut: If you consider X40 silent, you've never heard a well put together quiet desktop. I found X40's fan distracting at night when I had it - under my desk it would be fine, under my hands not so - the principal advantage of desktop.

[dreamcast270mhz]

And for the record, I'm no huge fan of Ubuntu either, and btw - you're not supposed to use atp-get :laughing:

@Kolla

I could always use synaptic, but considering that many webpages tell you to use apt-get. In Linux, you have a choice, I prefer using a CLI and building from source for many programs because I get a better optimization than builds provided. That doesn't make me a dumbass, because the package managers for Ubuntu call apt-get, you just insulted an entire distro. You may not like Linux compared to Windows, but Ubuntu and many others are shooting for just that, because the average consumer IS stupid, they're like a fish w/ bait: Oh, I see a flashy desktop with all these useless effects that slow down the hardware, I'm not going to get a clean, simple desktop that will last years.

@Thread,

Lets face it, OS 3.1 and below is outdated and useless, 3.9 is our most useful modern Classic AmigaOS. Therefore, we need to look to the X1000 to conquer the low quality Intel garbage, so when it comes out I'm gonna get one, even if I have to sell a kidney or part of my liver (alcohol free) to fund it. More likely, I'll just have to save up a few month's pay for it.

[the_leander]

Therefore, we need to look to the X1000 to conquer the low quality Intel garbage

Given that the chip likely to be in the X1000 is the Titan (what with Apple having recently bought out PA semi), even a current Netbook would give it a hard time in terms of performance...

A mid range VIA Nano would likely level peg it.

Any of the current AMD or Intel desktop part would leave it for dust, including low voltage/mobility versions.  

Add in a lightweight distro like Elive or crunchbang and you've got a system that is every bit as responsive and scalable as OS4.

[dreamcast270mhz]

Look at the PPC macs, they are of better quality than the intel macs

[the_leander]

Look at the PPC macs, they are of better quality than the intel macs

Citation needed.

[smerf]

Look at the PPC macs, they are of better quality than the intel macs

HI,

Wish I could get some of those drugs that you are using!!

smerf

[DonnyEMU]

no "joke" like that is harmless. There is an implication there that is inappropriate..

[the_leander]

no "joke" like that is harmless. There is an implication there that is inappropriate..

I'm full up at the moment.

[Karlos]

Therefore, we need to look to the X1000 to conquer the low quality Intel garbage, so when it comes out I'm gonna get one, even if I have to sell a kidney or part of my liver (alcohol free) to fund it. More likely, I'll just have to save up a few month's pay for it.

Meanwhile, here in the 21st century, I'm finding that the "intel garbage" is actually pretty good. I still have 68K and PPC based amiga machines, which are fun too. But by no stretch of the imagination is the processor in my main machine "garbage".

Must be some weird parallel universe you inhabit where x86 didn't go 64-bit / SSE3 / multicore and PPC is still relevant outside of hobbyist platforms, embedded systems and old routers.

[Amiga_Nut]

Meanwhile, here in the 21st century, I'm finding that the "intel garbage" is actually pretty good. I still have 68K and PPC based amiga machines, which are fun too. But by no stretch of the imagination is the processor in my main machine "garbage".

Must be some weird parallel universe you inhabit where x86 didn't go 64-bit / SSE3 / multicore and PPC is still relevant outside of hobbyist platforms, embedded systems and old routers.

A modern PC, even a proper laptop (ie DELL XPS 17" range not Intel integrated graphics rubbish btw) is a fantastic bit of kit technically speaking but...

1. Windows is utter crap...is it 25 years worth of computer development in hardware comparable ahead of KS/Wb on the A1000? No!

2. The PC is so fast only because it needed to run ever more bloated and useless OS releases from Microdorks

So you can't have one without the other really.