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Originally Posted by Norton
Butterfly, do you miss your chums, Blake, Moog and Scamp?
Here old people, while you're arguing over dinosaurs - technology is flying into the future.
Watch this. You can buy this set-up in Pantip for under 4k
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Is it worth it? No it isn't but will that affect your decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
We have 4 main laptops in the house running the 3 main OS. The least used is the MAC because it doesn't do what I want nor the tasks that the wife wants.
The wife is computer illiterate and is happy with Win7. As a professional user I prefer the Linux machine for day-to-day work but use a Win7 machine for camera work. This is because I prefer the Nikon ViewNX to sort my photos and Photoshop products for editing rather than Gimp.
For general browsing and e-mails there is little difference. Setting up Linux will probably be too much for you and Mac is over priced so my advice is to stick with a windows machine.
Troy, I still have the hard drive for the computer that died. I have many photos stored thereon which I downloaded from a Nikon camera using Nikon ViewNx. Can I not bung these on the Mac through whatever connection is necessary or will the Mac not like it?
^ Yes you can do that without problems and I believe ViewNX runs equally well on a Mac. I am not sure about Photoshop products though.
Photoshop is one of Apples main products so it works well on a mac :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
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Has been running on high end Macs for years but I'm not sure it is still the favoured OS. Graphics card support has tended to favour Windows and the Adobe forums also tend to favour Windows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier
wrt jpeg, I was thinking NEF files from the Nikon camera raw output.
Better tell Adobe then hadn't you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier
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Just for the record I am not one of those people who chase the latest gadgety things
I have an 11 year old car that I have owned for 8 years
,,,,and will continue to use it as its reliable , reliable and reliable .
I have recently purchased a secondhand iPhone 4s , unlocked on a £10 payg sim 1gig data ,, 1000 texts ,, 500 mins ,, no £40+ iPhone 5s 24 month contract thanks.
,,,, because this phone again works in our area weak signal where any of the shitty HTC,s Samsung,s won't ,
We live very happily in a 60 year old bungalow compared to the latest places all around us here .
I cannot remember over the last 18 years any clothes I have bought other than socks and pants
I even have an old pair of hipsters tucked away in my drawers although it might be a tad on the optimistic side to think I will ever be able to squeeze back into them :)
All my trousers are hipsters, Nigel. That way,the waistband will fit nicely under me corporation and I can get them in a size commensurate with the rest of my Adonis like physique.
This seems like a fair post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
The iApple will never be good value, you can always get equal or better for half the price, imho. The all in one Asus would have suited the OP perfectly for about 25,000 baht. I think I'll get me wife one next time I'm back in Thailand - would like a slightly better front camera for Skype, but...
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But, if the OP has basic needs which the iApple satisfies, and he's happy to pay the extra price for a presumed aesthetic value, then up to him...
It'd be interesting for the OP to update the thread with his views in 3 months or so.
maybe TheGent could buy an iPad instead since all he can do is surf the web and send emails, like 99% of the user population
Oi! Please, no silly moderation here. The guy would have drifted off and gone elsewhere.
My thread, my rules please. We're all big boys here. Well, possibly with the exception of that Welsh chap who may well be quite short like most of his ilk but there it is.
Despite your assumption Butterfly I have need of rather more than IPad.
Had my final foray in the market place today. Spoke to a decent sort of chap in I - Beat and we agreed that upgrading the drive to fusion spec was redundant and that this was probably bit of a marketing ploy by Apple. I have therefore plumped for the mac Mini with the 4GB RAM and the 1 terabyte ATA drive thingy. Add to this the Apple wireless keyboard and Magic Mouse and the bill comes to 32,000 bt. I shall complement it all with a Dell Ultra Sharp U24 something or other although still undecided as to which but either way it'll come under 10,000.
All in all, I think I've a rather nifty bit of kit which,hopefully, will last longer than my last laptops and trips to computer doctors will be a thing of the past.
What I like about Apple is the fact that with my hardware etc I get all the software I will need to get rolling. And no crappy, useless alleged antivirus software which never fucking works reliably.
Oh,I forget to mention, the chap in the apple store advised me that I may wish to put off any purchase for a few months since the next cycle of a new mini was expected at the end of the year and he didn't want me to feel disadvantaged if it did materialise after buying the current one. Very decent of him I thought.
I may need to review my policy on the Thai.
In all but name.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Like saying McDonald's doesn't own their burger suppliers.
The only reason Mac was ever big was their handling of certain media software like Photoshop and Cubase.
PC caught up a decade ago.
You're not even good at digging yourself out of a hole, you halfwit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier
You said it was an Apple product, just admit you are a clueless tosser and get it out there.
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Shut up you nugget :)
That's a quality line though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Ouch! Hope it comes with dual hexacore processors for that price......:)Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
Don't really matter does it Troy ?,, its his money to spend as he pleases .
If its a nice bit of quality kit that will give good reliable service for many years without conflicting programs and ease of use , good on him I say ,, enjoy it.
Similar to my next door neighbour , since the 6 years we have lived here he has had 2 new BMW,s ,,, no idea at what cost ,, mabe in the £50.000 area ? mabe more ?
He has no computer , no broadband .
IMO ,, excessive spending , but its his money , his pleasure .
I have a £500 banger on the drive , broadband and IMO a nice Macbook to boot :)
^ Noted your post about Bryce and thought you might like to try Blender.
blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software
It's free and available for a Mac and you may find it fun.
I'm sure thegent will be happy with his choice and let us all know how much he loves the new Mac.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
Cheers for that mate ,, tbh I,m so busy at the moment , but will get hold of it for later on
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^ & ^^ Would be the simplest reply......
After being unable to print they're flight tickets to the latest Windows 9 all singing / dancing touchsreen laptop being virused and conflicted up Harry Taperecorder + Tin can concede and go to off quietly to the nearest Apple shop
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There was a time when the argument was whether SysV was better than BSD. No other OS was even considered worthy of competing.
Since Mac is based pretty much on BSD and Linux is loosely based on SysV then I am not going to say anything about the pedigree of the Mac OS.
I should say that the first thing I do on my Windows machine is install GNU Unix tools; PuTTy; Perl; and VIM just to give it a hint of usability.
Mac may be overpriced and limited in hardware but it is certainly not a choice for dummies.
no Mac user knows how to run the Unix shell on their mac, so it's irrelevant
and one minute in that shell shows you how "dysfunctional" their "Unix" is, it's completely fucked up, ala Steve Jobs
the war between SVR4 and BSD or even Linux vs OpenBSD is long gone
so is the war between Windows and Mac,
however the war between user retards and real computer players is still on, and this thread is a perfect example
This is stupid beyond belief ! I have only ever had one virus and knew enough about my computer to get rid of it. I take a pride in knowing what to do and learn all I can. I don't want to be a dummy with a box that works and have no idea why it works. I am conversant with all Windows systems but do not have a Windows 8 machine. I use my daughter's and my cousin's too so I know about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
MY PC's last me years because I service them myself. There are no limits to what I can do.
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Originally Posted by can123
[quote=thegent;2816587]Oi! Please, no silly moderation here. The guy would have drifted off and gone elsewhere.
No i would not. He's a [at][at][at][at] and the only computer worth buying is a Mac.
I bought an iMac when they first were sold with intel processor and it died in January this year. Bought a macbook 2 years after i bought the iMac and it's still going strong. battery is fucked though. And no clever cvnt Buttfuk i don't just browse the web and email.:kma:
:kma:You are such an arsehole. Cretin.Quote:
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Originally Posted by robjak
Best fact-based argument ever!
You really showed him!!!1
fuk yourself cvnt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plan B
They're talking about ordinary people wanting to buy a computer, not some arrogant cvnt that knows everything about everything.
you're another :kma:
What?
The gents??
Ordinary???
Yes, you're quite right.
Carry on.
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Originally Posted by Troy
Holly fuk, did I just bread that correctly. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by thegent
Jesus mate,
They have finally let you into Gullivers with your Sausages and Bacon EH. :)
Happy days.
Butterfly, who is he and just how on earth did you provoke him so?
Enough, already.
Apropos earlier posts re. Unix shell. Is this wrapped around the kernel thingy and can I access it? How will I know if I have found it and what does it do? Is life somehow enriched if I can service my own computer?
I've had lots of cars and must say that an inability to access the ECU never hampered its function. Indeed, when one vehicle's ECU became ill the mechanic simply threw it away and inserted a new one.
Aren't computers similar or are their gubbins totally different to car computers?
Essentially, computers are there to store information, act as a repository for media stuff, provide a portal to the known universe and to do whizzy things accountants, mathematicians and typists might need. I don't find myself in the latter group so I suppose much of a computer's potential for me goes unused. No matter, most folk in the world seem to to get by using only 2% of their brains, and a fair few are represented on this board, so an inability to use a machine to its full capacity won't be such a tragedy.
Actually, I've been reading about kernels and found it quite interesting. Odd concept really and quite alien to the capitalist principle. Perhaps that's why Butterfly is so against it.
Incidentally, I may have confused Unix with Linux. Not sure really but I don't think it matters in the scheme of things.