Thread: What computer should I buy?

Originally Posted by thegent

I do like the aesthetics of things and I think Apple stuff is just so damned attractive.

that should be the only sensible question to have when buying an overpriced underspecs toy like the iMac,

forget about FireWire, dual Core etc... peanuts for monkeys

Originally Posted by 9999

SSD for surfing the net and checking emails. Butters will be having fits.

well, honestly with the oversupply of SSD drives, who really need them ? only in a few instances it makes sense, so why not, might as well put them somewhere. At the end it's all about ego, so the usual small penis like Harry, TheGent and other Apple fans will get one to boost their ego and their sexual deficiency. Women also like the sound of SSD even though they have no clue what it's all about, as long as it's better than the rest, they have to have it. It's jewelry for them.

Originally Posted by baldrick

butters has said no to RAM but the oracle has yet to ban SSDs

small footprint of RAM is good, it stops virus from operating properly. More RAM, more heavy weight virus can do their nasty work. Nothing replace a lean and optimized PC for doing effective real work, not social networking with your other gay friends.

So, let me get this right Butterfly. If one has a lean, mean operating machine using Microsoft,with as small as possible RAM, one won't be a poof, a girl or someone who favours jewelry (sic) ?

Have you had a bad day or are the haemorrhoids playing you up?

Incidentally, I'm inclining towards quad core and hyper threading. Dual core is just soooo yesterday.

By the way Butterfly, it's a Mac mini I'm intending to buy, not an IMac. There are differences but in your Belgian rhetoric you seem to have overlooked this.

Err, because Sony paid a fortune to the producers for the product placement opportunity.

To be fair, as in all my high ticket items bought through life, I do like the aesthetics of things and I think Apple stuff is just so damned attractive.

Hook line and sinker, a marketing mans dream, like every other mug punter to enter the Emporuim or Central World with a credit card with a wad of purple and grey grasped in their trembling and sweaty hands. At least if it breaks you can always stick it on a shelf as an objet d'art or a conversation piece.

My first real camera was a Nikon FE2. Beautiful bit of kit, did the biz, absolutely gorgeous to look and to hold.

In those days decent kit was mechanical, repairable and built to last. Obsolescence was not built in, and if it malfunctioned, a screwdriver and a pair of dental pliers was all that was necessary to get the thing up and running again. Nowadays you need specialised tools just to remove the casings of most electrical goods or you will snap and crack the flanges, connectors and integral clips that are designed into them.

Computers have become white goods, like washing machines and microwaves, built to last two or three years and then be scrapped. Clothe them in designer aluminium, or brittle plastic, it matters not a jot, they are all destined for landfill.

People dont have the skill to repair them, they only have the gab to sell them, and the manufacturers would rather you bought a new one than go to all the trouble of training their monkeys to supply and fit the Chinese produced microscopic piece of nonsense that was responsible for the malfunction.

Unless you are buying a fountain pen, shoes or a suit, and for your computing needs, then an Acers is every bit as good as an Apple and there is little to choose between the ergonomics and haptic feedback of an Acer or an Apple.

Each unto their own I suppose, and some are comforted by surrounding themselves with expensive branded consumer items. I mean if its good enough for Victoria Beckham then it must be good enough for thegent.

But in the true spirit of cameraderie and decency I hope you have many years sterling service from your new gee gaw.


.... and if you do have any bother with it, just use the neural SQL port, then you can reboot the redundant feed and by pass the back-end AI alarm, then you connect the wireless array...... its a piece of piss !

Originally Posted by Butterfly

well, honestly with the oversupply of SSD drives, who really need them ?

me
I had a hard disc drive in my laptop , it was heating up and making the fan work hard and it sounding like there was a couple of mice inside, gnawing and larking about. Now the replacement sdd makes no fucking sound at all !! it's as quiet as ..


Apple are too savvy to waste money paying James Bond to advertise their products when they can get celebrities like Rolf Harris to do it for free !

But the jury was not told of his sordid pornography collection – kept on an Apple Mac used by other members of his family – after Harris’s lawyer Simon Ray produced evidence in the form of ID cards that he claimed showed that the girls in the images were over 18.

They also found a hand written notes in Harris's diary detailing how to delete material from his computer. He had written: "1) start button 2) control panel 3) internet options 4) press delete under heading below history, make sure all boxes ticked."

That worked well ..

Originally Posted by thegent

Incidentally, I'm inclining towards quad core and hyper threading. Dual core is just soooo yesterday.

By the way Butterfly, it's a Mac mini I'm intending to buy, not an IMac. There are differences but in your Belgian rhetoric you seem to have overlooked this.

who cares, it's a machine for poofs

nothing wrong with you coming as one, but stop talking tough and hardcore when you know fuck all what it means and you are just a woman with her jewelry

Originally Posted by blue

Now the replacement sdd makes no fucking sound at all !! it's as quiet as ..

I guess it's a valid argument, and probably the only argument for such high tech toys to be used

doesn't it speak volume about their true utility ? look pretty, make no noise

very hi-tech criteria for sure,

Originally Posted by thegent

If one has a lean, mean operating machine using Microsoft,with as small as possible RAM, one won't be a poof, a girl or someone who favours jewelry (sic) ?

you are a fast learner, that's good

you are going to make a great Apple fan, I can tell

Oh geez so thegent gets a computer thread..

What is next? Geezers at Ibiza?

SDD starts up the computer super quick, finds and retrieves data much faster,
uses less battery power , even makes security scans quicker , and is much less likely to fail than a Hdd,
if that's not enough they are lighter !

Tax, presumably you are quite content to lounge about in your Yorkshire bothy happy in the knowledge your old boiler working on the principle of a heat exchanger, a dubious pilot light and dodgy bimetallic strip is infinitely better than the modern boilers to be had? And when it goes phut and you need heat you pop down to that little hardware shop for your two bar electric heater in your shitty little Morris Marina which grinds to a halt because the starter motor has died, yet again, you have no need for a Japanese car built for the 21 st century?
Or indeed, you infinitely prefer that old hydraulic tube attached to your member as you prepare to mount Mrs.Tax to the latest ED drug?

I embrace modernity and welcome its benefits. You are simply an old Canute too blind to see the benefits of that incoming tide.

Why did this have to decend into a childish bickering about the type of people who use Mac,s ??

FFS all the guy asked was advice on which computer to buy next

Playground stuff

Originally Posted by Butterfly

you are going to make a great Apple fan, I can tell

Remind us again how many Macs you have owned and the model of your current one?

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by Butterfly

you are going to make a great Apple fan, I can tell

Remind us again how many Macs you have owned and the model of your current one?

And iphones.

irrelevant, I have reformed. Apple was a different company when they had a real product and a real OS long time ago.

Today, it's a different story, toys for computer retards. Which is why TheGent needs one, as he is computer illiterate.

Also the jewelry factor is a valid one. If people want to buy jewelry, who are we to tell them not to ?

in the other extreme, we have Harry Faux Windows Geek, a dysfunctional server boy who is obsessed with pure tech toys like SmartPhones and kernel hacking.

I'm actually quite surprised at the vehemence of those who evidently have strong feelings on the subject. Tapping into the net I can see now the Mac vs Windows PC debate is bizarrely partisan. For fuck's sake, it's just a machine with a slightly different operating system and quality standard.

There's Butterfly seeing it as a definer of sexuality and machismo, and that daft taffy thinking his fucking birthright might be at stake if he doesn't buy a piece of plastic crap.

Weird, ain't they Nigel?

Originally Posted by Butterfly

irrelevant, I have reformed. Apple was a different company when they had a real product and a real OS long time ago.

Today, it's a different story, toys for computer retards. Which is why TheGent needs one, as he is computer illiterate.

Also the jewelry factor is a valid one. If people want to buy jewelry, who are we to tell them not to ?

in the other extreme, we have Harry Faux Windows Geek, a dysfunctional server boy who is obsessed with pure tech toys like SmartPhones and kernel hacking.

So where do you view your gay porn now Butters? Do you have a jizz-encrusted Samsung now?

Originally Posted by thegent

I'm actually quite surprised at the vehemence of those who evidently have strong feelings on the subject. Tapping into the net I can see now the Mac vs Windows PC debate is bizarrely partisan. For fuck's sake, it's just a machine with a slightly different operating system and quality standard.

All would acknowledge that you are a person who is easily "surprised". Essentially this is down to your lack of knowledge of many areas with which the rest of us are fully conversant. To an extent I envy you. You are able to look forward to considerable amazement as you experience new things in your life and your pool of knowledge grows. You will always be somewhat ignorant but this will be compensated for by the sheer joy you will experience as your understanding of technical issues increases.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Why did this have to decend into a childish bickering about the type of people who use Mac,s ??

FFS all the guy asked was advice on which computer to buy next

Playground stuff

It didn't *have *to*, we just sent it that way once he made the gay purchasing decision.

Screw the lot of them Gent. Buy whatever computer rings your bell.