New Computer!!

[Kams]

Originally Posted by Fire2box

2. The only reason mac's can't get a virus is since no hacker wants to waste his or her time designing a virus for a OS system which is hardly even used.

LOL, every single school in our school district runs on Mac OS X

Originally Posted by Fire2box

3. 2.4 GHz dual cores are ok but if you if you really wanted to edit video and encode it then you should of got a Intel Quad Core at and overclock it to 2.6- 3 GHz. That would be WAY more faster then a two core 2.4 GHz.

New iMacs that came out today come with Duo 3.06 Ghz standard

Originally Posted by Fire2box

4. Theres way more video editors for XP/Vista then Mac hands down. This goes for ALL programs and even games. Tell me when your running Call Of Duty 4 from the Mac OS with out using boot camp (which I Think voids the whole purpose in buying a mac)

Yes, and they're all not nearly as good as Final Cut Express (or Pro), which is what I use. Oh and everyone says that Macs suck for gaming, well I disagree there....strongly.


But yeah, whatever floats your boat I suppose

[Fire2box]

Originally Posted by Kams

LOL, every single school in our school district runs on Mac OS X



New iMacs that came out today come with Duo 3.06 Ghz standard



Yes, and they're all not nearly as good as Final Cut Express (or Pro), which is what I use. Oh and everyone says that Macs suck for gaming, well I disagree there....strongly.


But yeah, whatever floats your boat I suppose

1.Your School District running Mac's does not mean anything other then they don't want the students putting viruses on them or download viruses to them. Thats why my old school is switching to Mac's. Once everyone is buying mac's you will be seeing viruses for them.

2. I said Quad Core not Dual core but a Dual core at 3.06 GHz is pretty nice. but a Quad Core is the best you can get for todays market and like I said you can overclock it to 3.0GHz as well. If you think your little duo 2.4 Ghz is "FAST" then you seen nothing yet.

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by Fire2box

1.Your School District running Mac's does not mean anything other then they don't want the students putting viruses on them or download viruses to them. Thats why my old school is switching to Mac's. Once everyone is buying mac's you will be seeing viruses for them.

2. I said Quad Core not Dual core but a Dual core at 3.06 GHz is pretty nice. but a Quad Core is the best you can get for todays market and like I said you can overclock it to 3.0GHz as well. If you think your little duo 2.4 Ghz is "FAST" then you seen nothing yet.

Name one application that can actually use all 4 cores for something that you do, and I'll be impressed.

[Verscha]

I actually didn't get the iBook right away. I got myself a big-ass Toshiba laptop. It was cheaper. It had 'higher' specs. It was a complete piece of junk and had the aesthetic appeal of a cinder block. It was only after I returned it that I nabbed an iBook.

I think the point I'm making here is not everybody really cares about having something that can score higher on benchmark tests than the other guy's machine. Some people just want efficient, good-looking machines that get the job done with minimum effort and, you know, have cash to spare.

Personally I use both PCs and Macs in tandem so don't draw me into this Mac user/PC user dichotomy some people obviously seem to believe exists.

[Fire2box]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Name one application that can actually use all 4 cores for something that you do, and I'll be impressed.

Video Edit/encoding FTW! Thats why most people on Newegg are buying them up. Also more and more programs/games will support it overtime.


Verscha, you bought a cheaper laptop with overall better specs but you switch it for a mac since it looks cooler on the outside? Isn't that along the same lines of "I got better specs then him"?

At least with the specs you would end up having a better computer. Having it look good on the outside should not outweigh whats on the inside. Hench the term "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep".

[Verscha]

Verscha, you bought a cheaper laptop with overall better specs but you switch it for a mac since it looks cooler on the outside? Isn't that along the same lines of "I got better specs then him"?

Yes. Well, that and the size and weight and XP being ill-suited for my desired uses and the poor build quality and and and

But whatever.

[Mr Alex]

Name one application that can actually use all 4 cores for something that you do, and I'll be impressed.

A game / App

[sniper14th]

I know Windows, I know Linux and between the two of them I have all I need. (games for windows, cool web design programs for Linux)

[Celtic]

iam saveing for a dell xps the computer I have is a piece of sh**

[Sawaa]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Name one application that can actually use all 4 cores for something that you do, and I'll be impressed.

Supreme Commander utilises all four cores of my Q6600 System.
Awesome game. Srsly!