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shut up Zephyr Twin youre stupid |
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you're not fooling anyone pawel. you're also not entertaining anyone, helping anyone, intimidating anyone, or teaching anyone. It's in your best interest to fuck off. |
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buy some tape cassettes, some paper and paints, a couple of books, some kind of drugs, a naughty young vixen and forget about the computer |
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yeah the mac vs pc debate is so crap C64 vs Spectrum was much better just chuck the macs away and then we don't need to argue which is better any more |
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was going to get a new macbook for music stuff - should I get the white (oldstyle) one with the firewire port or the new sexy one without the firewire? I'm thinking the old one as I've got a Firewire 410 and always thought USB is shit for audio. But would appreciate advice from some Mac users... Oh yeh, can't afford the MacBook Pro |
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no Firewire = ripoff. the 2 only good thing about the new series is the sturdy case, and the better screen panels. Apparently the trackpad does not work too well. the white one is not exactly powerful me thinks... but cheaper... should be sufficient for music stuff though? if i needed to buy a computer now, i'd go for a (not so) used MacBook Pro from someone who upgrades to the current generation... |
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thanks Blaaard. What about getting white one and paying extra for 4GB ram and extra hard drive space? |
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you're forgetting the nvidia chipset, which is a boon if you're into video/gaming. otherwise it's pretty meh. i have a number of friends who are buying refurbed top end 'books from the last gen, which are now only ~$1100 and are fairly comparable in performance. |
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some of those applez have 8 cores dont they ...mmmmm...nice. |
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Get a PC. Macs are slower than PCs and constanly freeze. Plus my old Mac always used to get viruses. Also, most Mac users are fags, so unless you want to be associated with men who have anal sex with each other, I suggest going with a PC instead. |
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ya, that could be a good alternative.... ram modules are much cheaper for that model.... hmmm. depending on how carfully you handle the plastic macbook, the case might break at some point. really depends on how much money you want to spend.. you clearly get more bang for more bucks. but the new models aren't really worth it imo. the lack of firewire... such a nice connection. you could use a book as an external fw harddrive to another mac if you boot using target disk mode... gone. (fast!) ethernet over fw... gone. fw audio interfaces and video cameras... gone. and what new connectivity do you get? you'll have to *buy* at least one adoptor for connecting them to an external monitor... two if you have a vga screen. wtf? ehh? |
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the new notebooks are kinda meh imho! |
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mohamed has some great ideas and recommendations for software that took me ages to find on my own at one point doing "research" (ie google). so pardon my repeating some things if it crops up. buy applecare. I've read horror stories, and just look at the gripes on apple.com in the help section. clamxav is good if you are paranoid about the virus thing, which is reasonable really. also trend micro housecall is done online (I'm sure you give away your info though) and free as well. free software: vlc - the greatest media player crohn scripts (found somewhere, not software necessarily) - for routinely cleaning up your linux based mac os x ala linux style Bean - textedit replacement which loads extremely fast caffeine - prevents your computer from sleeping during a movie or the screen saver from turning on Onyx - not need if there are the Chron scripts present though, and the scripts do it all behind the scenes NeoOffice - for when Bean is not enough JustLooking - a Preview replacement... simple and fast with a nicer interface Flip4Mac - for those pesky wmv streaming files XLD - IMO the greatest audio converter MPEG Streamclip - for simple and trustworthy movie conversion Transmission - best damn on for those torrent files IMO of course Cyberduck - nice FTP interface Adium - best chat client as I'd be surprised if it didn't cover any service... and highly customizable as well. may not be free, but there are free alternatives perhaps: xslimmer - reduces file size, getting rid of language packs and power pc compatibility cleanapp - comprehensive obscure file deletion and cleans up the computer if desired by deleting various cache files there are many free pieces of software built into that Mac that are very reliable. and if you get crafty enough... some Linux stuff is available online as well with a little bit of work. |
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I'd just like to point out that mac is not linux based. It is based on BSD, which is a flavour of UNIX. Linux is UNIX compatible, but is not directly derived from UNIX as such. Like Linux, Mac OSX is POSIX compliant, meaning it conforms to a standard of being "unix-like". Therefore you can do a hell of a lot of useful stuff like cron jobs within macs if you know how. |
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