Thread: What computer should I buy?

I'm still waiting for the punchline in this shaggydogstory...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I'm still waiting for the punchline in this shaggydogstory...

The way I'm reading it, TG is leaning towards a Mac Mini, though is loath to buy the current model as there is potentially a new version about to be released.

I shall await the forthcoming Apple release news next week. I suspect it will focus on their watch thinggy and phone malarkey and probably little else. The new Mini will probably just feature the same 1 4GHZ Haswell chip with the HD graphics 5000 and new Wifi whotsit currently in the Entry Imac and MacBook Air. Since that simply reduces power demand and enhances battery use it's not such a big deal for me since I have no need for ambulatory surfing etc and am therefore content with the Ivy Bridge processor.

If no news about an update I shall therefore get the entry Mini as it is. With their keyboard and Magic Mouse the whole kaboodle won't be more than 25,000 bt and perfect for my needs. The more I play with the Mavericks OS the more I like it. Why folk still cling to Windows is mystifying.

I suspect Windows allows geeks the opportunity to be geeks whereas Apple provides little scope for their geekiness. This would explain Butterfly and probably all the folk who make money out of addressing Windows shite who would lose income if everyone did the sensible thing and converted to Apple.

I think that is the nub of the Apple/Windows issue.

Apple provides little scope for their geekiness.

Except for running a Unix shell, that is. Other than learning a few meaningless names, you haven't really got this mastered yet, have you.

I suspect Windows allows geeks the opportunity to be geeks whereas Apple provides little scope for their geekiness.

..... well it hasnt gone unnoticed that since you embarked on your quest for the perfect Apple you seem to have found your inner nerd and embraced geekdom with unbridled relish.

Quite sad really.

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

Originally Posted by thegent

So, who would use a Mac Pro and for what?

Traditionally people who use either processor/ram heavy software for video or audio production.

seriously ? nobody, fags and homos who need to show off their jewerly

anyone with serious computing needs is staying away from Macs

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by bsnub

Derp. If you cant figure it out I don't need to lower myself to answer your question.

Butterfly is teaching you well.

oh fuck off little fraud, you can't even setup, let alone run, a decent webserver on a fucking home ADSL. What a technical disgrace you are.

Didn't you run off one time to SubZero once I exposed you for the little fraud that you were ? why are you back ? nowhere to go I guess, no friend to see, only a dumb webserver with hundred of posts about me, like a sad little stalker that you are.

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

Apple provides little scope for their geekiness.

Except for running a Unix shell, that is. Other than learning a few meaningless names, you haven't really got this mastered yet, have you.

Dan, the detail is somewhat arcane and, yes, I've yet to get to grips with it but in truth it's the social aspects that have interested me since my innocent enquiry some weeks ago.

Enjoying a fine wine but not knowing the average fucking temperature during fermentation and in which fucking oak barrel it was held does not necessarily diminish the experience.

No, but if you can't tell the difference between a glass of wine and a liter of diesel, then prattling on about the virtues of this or that grape is, well, more than a little fucking ridiculous.

Originally Posted by thegent

Incidentally Troy, would 4GB RAM be sufficient then?

Originally Posted by thegent

I am seduced by the allure of an OS that will function reliably. Windows is unreliable and fraught with daily angst.

For computer illiterate like you, MacOS is the way to go. Windows and Linux are not for everyone.

Originally Posted by thegent

Troy, one thing I have learned in this process is that the development by Intel of their processing chips has been exponential in the past 5 years. Durability and reliability is vey much linked to heat and it's management. By reducing power etc we are now in the realm of laptops no longer requiring fans. The move to SSD will further enhance the process.

This strikes me as quite logical and spending money on older technology, inherently unreliable albeit commensurately cheaper, is a waste.

FFS, TheGent, even a Pentium III 300Mhz with 256MB of RAM and 60Mb HDD would be overkill for what you intend to do. People like you shouldn't own computer, but only tablets or big size phones.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

but only tablets or big size phones.

He probably has one of them

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

No, but if you can't tell the difference between a glass of wine and a liter of diesel, then prattling on about the virtues of this or that grape is, well, more than a little fucking ridiculous.

Well, excuse me, Mr. " I don't know why I'm banned from Speakers Corner and the News threads but it could be because I published the rendezvous points for those wanting to protest against the coup on a fucking internet site that could be construed under the emergency laws as fucking seditious but because I'm a totally arrogant farang twat with my head up my arse I just can't be sure ", I rather think I do know the difference and in the terms of your analogy The proof is in the actuality.

I know me kernels from my spinning beachballs thank you very much.

Apple is obviously better and the market knows it: windows laptop sales are falling, Apple Macs are increasing.

Windows folk are just OCD fiddlers more interested in tinkering with a perverted medium than the message.

Do you still believe in fucking climate change or have you realised you merely forgot it was always just weather?

Har, har.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by bsnub

Derp. If you cant figure it out I don't need to lower myself to answer your question.

Butterfly is teaching you well.

oh fuck off little fraud, you can't even setup, let alone run, a decent webserver on a fucking home ADSL. What a technical disgrace you are.

Didn't you run off one time to SubZero once I exposed you for the little fraud that you were ? why are you back ? nowhere to go I guess, no friend to see, only a dumb webserver with hundred of posts about me, like a sad little stalker that you are.

What's an ADSL?

you are hopeless !!! buy an iPad

Originally Posted by Butterfly

oh fuck off little fraud, you can't even setup, let alone run, a decent webserver on a fucking home ADSL. What a technical disgrace you are.

That's odd, there's a whole thread about the server and it is full of your empty threats and usual idiotic gum flapping about how you are going to destroy it and it's still running fine.

You fail even as a script-kiddie!

Apple is obviously better

Obviously. Well, if you ever actually manage to do something as fraught with difficulty as make a decision, I'm sure that mysterious, blinking - surely semi-divine - silver box will prove its inestimable superiority over everything else which has ever existed. Anywhere. Money well spent, I say.

Well said!
My next venture is which fridge and combine oven/ microwave I should plump for. I was quite taken with Fisher Paykel but they seem dreadfully expensive although redeemed by the fact they are not plastic.
I could never understand why folk just buy stuff without spending time on a bit of research and consideration. Seems quite disrespectful.

Theagent is finally admitting that he is ona par with the average chicken head somchai then? After all, all of the dimwitt know nothing Thais that he hates so much adore apple products. So, the day he pops open his mac for the first time, we know that he has fully integrated into Thai society - I wonder where he will get his lobotomy done? And the bumminglad or the Thai way by racing his hilux on a tight bend?

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

Figure it out for yourself Pseud.

Fools and money I suspect.

Originally Posted by thegent

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

Figure it out for yourself Pseud.

It's the dummies wot buys 'em wot gives the profit, Guv !

Originally Posted by taxexile

Fools and money I suspect.

Well, if it is good enough for the likes of Stephen Fry and Rowan Atkinson......

And Buzz Aldrin

And David Gilmour.