Thread: Looking to purchase new PC...??

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

then Vista becomes essential.

No it doesn't.

I'm no expert but I having been stung once on a brand name that took months to get fixed I always try and find a local bloke. Specify the kind of thing I want, discuss the pros and cons of new versions of hard ware etc. and then get him/her to put it together. I stress that if I have any problems I expect him to fix em. This last machine came in at 20,000. I've had a few glitches over the last couple of years but the man's done the right thing. 30 minute drive and generally he's right on it. I find it reassuring being as I'm as technically talented as a carrot.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

my HTPC assembly.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Looks like I will be going for the 780g AMD chipset and an Athlon X2 Processor at the moment. I will seek advice on the net and from Jedi overclock in Panthip before committing.

how many H264 decodes will you be running at once ??

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

then Vista becomes essential.

essential ?? it is a turd - polished so it is shiny maybe , but still a turd

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Get a Mac.

You won't have to deal with any virus, malware, or spyware stuff - this is especially useful if all you do is cruise porn sites (surprisingly, this seems to be important to some folks, and those are the #1 places where PCs get infected).

(obligatory fanboi plug)

Sorry bud but the comment about macs is wrong, virus's that are mac specific are on the rise and apple recommend using Anti Virus.

Originally Posted by k1klass

Sorry bud but the comment about macs is wrong, virus's that are mac specific are on the rise and apple recommend using Anti Virus.

No, they are not -- the KB article that Apple posted, which the fanboi press jumped on, had been removed - and if you had read the original statement, it was not recommending anti-virus software to combat virusware, but rather to introduce additional variables to make virus authors' tasks more befuddling.

Either way, Apple has removed the KB article within hours.

Furthermore, what Mac specific virus' are on the rise? On the rise from 'zero'? Where?

All zealousy aside, your opinion is not unique, as a lot of people base their opinions on something they "...heard from someone that heard somewhere that..."

This is exacerbated by the fact that most of the media regurgitates nearly *anything* without so much as a simple background check, or even so much as listing their original sources (if they did, you would find that many such sensationalist articles all originate from a single misinformed source).

^ macs get targeted with worms, like any other Linux platform

and there have been report from security firms that more virus have been written recently for the macs, so indeed virus are on the rise,

stop spinning the usual blind Mac fan non-sense, macboy

As Macs get more popular malware and the like will become another option for virus writers to take advantage of. Most Mac users are pretty lax about stuff like this and its a virus/malware writers dream. Anti-virus is nowhere near as essential a part of everyday life as it is in Windows but it will no doubt increase in the future.

^^Thankyou.

Try and give a warning and you get it shot back in your face with some silly blog story from a few weeks ago..... Bah lol

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

then Vista becomes essential.

No it doesn't.

It does for the case I want to use.

If you build your own buying all the parts at cheapest price you will certainly get more bang for your baht. If you don't know how to build it just pay someone that does 300b.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ macs get targeted with worms, like any other Linux platform

Care to substantiate that with supporting evidence?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

and there have been report from security firms that more virus have been written recently for the macs, so indeed virus are on the rise

Care to substantiate that with supporting evidence?