Mac vs. PC

[Trygle12]

PC...The simplicity and widespread acceptance has driven me to make such a choice.



Also, I am short on cash!

 

[FAST6191]

I agree for decoding it is great if you can get it working, unfortunately the encoding part is less that brilliant.

 

[Hiratai]

My uncle just promised that if I got straight A's for my last year of high school, he'd get me a new G5. Hell yeah...

 

[azn_225]

PC ftw!!

 

[Azimuth]

Linux, theres nothing more refreshing than staring at a blank terminal, ahh good times.

*runs back to dark corner clutching keyboard*

 

[iffy525]

http://www.mac-sucks.com/switch_why.php

you wanna play some minesweeper, mac?
pc ftw

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

EVERYTHING pwns PC

 

[TLSpartan]

I posted in this thread months ago

. I'm thinking of changing from Ubuntu to something else. Any ideas guys on what distro's I should try?

EDIT- I found a Knoppix ISO that I torrented ages ago. I will test that out for now

 

[Ignatius]

i was curious to know if the iMac that's for about $1899 (cdn) will be good enough to play Crysis?

 

[iffy525]

crysis needs dx10 to play

 

[cubin']

are you sure about that iffy? big disappointment if it's true but I really doubt that dx10 is required

 

[iffy525]

im not 100% but im pretty sure you need insane internals to play. go look it up

 

[iffy525]

your right cubin! it only needs dx9 but still really good internals(if you want to play it on recomended). nice call. my bad.
http://www.digitalbattle.com/2006/07/23/cr...ments-released/

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

I'm using Ubuntu right now

 

[Jarvik7]

The people that think #2 and #3 just need a hardware firewall. I have my router, and a smoothwall box that all my PCs runs threw. Haven't had a virus in years. But Windows is pretty expensive 

Firewalls stop remote hacks, not viruses. You are thinking of one possible infection vector of one type of virus (worm using a remote exploit to spread). Even if you have a firewall which has virus checking capabilities on incoming data, thats not going to stop 0day infections or viruses introduced through local media or lan. In short, not having a virus problem is much different from simply having preventative measures.

http://www.mac-sucks.com/switch_why.php

you wanna play some minesweeper, mac?
pc ftw

That looks like a nice place to go for unbiased information to make a decision based on. Way to be an ignorant fanboy.

QUOTE(Hiratai @ Sep 17 2007, 04:01 PM)My uncle just promised that if I got straight A's for my last year of high school, he'd get me a new G5. Hell yeah...

Brand new machine that Apple doesn't even sell anymore? yaaa...

Why do people even make these threads? They just bring out fanboys and ignorance (redundant) on both sides and produce nothing of value.

 

[decript]

Got a sweet macbook, and I'm loving the OS. I also have windows xp sp2 on bootcamp, just for some games. Love it.

 

[iffy525]

The people that think #2 and #3 just need a hardware firewall. I have my router, and a smoothwall box that all my PCs runs threw. Haven't had a virus in years. But Windows is pretty expensiveÂ

Firewalls stop remote hacks, not viruses. You are thinking of one possible infection vector of one type of virus (worm using a remote exploit to spread). Even if you have a firewall which has virus checking capabilities on incoming data, thats not going to stop 0day infections or viruses introduced through local media or lan. In short, not having a virus problem is much different from simply having preventative measures.

http://www.mac-sucks.com/switch_why.php

you wanna play some minesweeper, mac?
pc ftw

That looks like a nice place to go for unbiased information to make a decision based on. Way to be an ignorant fanboy.

My uncle just promised that if I got straight A's for my last year of high school, he'd get me a new G5. Hell yeah...

Brand new machine that Apple doesn't even sell anymore? yaaa...

Why do people even make these threads? They just bring out fanboys and ignorance (redundant) on both sides and produce nothing of value.

so what os do you use, Jarvik? why?

 

[kellyan95]

The people that think #2 and #3 just need a hardware firewall. I have my router, and a smoothwall box that all my PCs runs threw. Haven't had a virus in years. But Windows is pretty expensive 

Firewalls stop remote hacks, not viruses. You are thinking of one possible infection vector of one type of virus (worm using a remote exploit to spread). Even if you have a firewall which has virus checking capabilities on incoming data, thats not going to stop 0day infections or viruses introduced through local media or lan. In short, not having a virus problem is much different from simply having preventative measures.

That really contradicts me not having a virus in years. I have mac based filtering on my WPA network, so no outside contamination. The only other systems are game consoles or PCs that I fix (do virus scans/wipe before hooking to network!)

 

[H8TR]

i was curious to know if the iMac that's for about $1899 (cdn) will be good enough to play Crysis?

Yeah, its good enough. 2.4GHz C2D will definitely get a good workout with Crysis. HD 2600 Pro is enough to play Crysis and it supports DX10 but your max fps probably wont be any higher than 30 if you even make it that high. Might want to add a gig of memory to smooth things out.

 

[kellyan95]

Huh? 8800 Ultras are going to strugle with Crysis on high settings. And the 2600? Don't even think about DX10. Low-medium at 25fps and native resolution is all you should expect