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[Txontaw]

Hmm, then you must be doing something wrong. My friend custom builds his own computers, and he has a super-gaming computer for $2000. He hasn't had to repair it at all for four years. Kind of the same thing with mine. I've had my computer for ~6 years, and it's only recently needed to be repaired, and that was because of a virus.

Also, how the heck do you upgrade a Mac? You need to buy a new computer to get better performance.

[guest2859]

Someone kept telling me that I could upgrade my computer by buying a $200 processor. Plus, how would you get better preformance without buying a new computer?

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Hmm, then you must be doing something wrong. My friend custom builds his own computers, and he has a super-gaming computer for $2000. He hasn't had to repair it at all for four years. Kind of the same thing with mine. I've had my computer for ~6 years, and it's only recently needed to be repaired, and that was because of a virus.

Also, how the heck do you upgrade a Mac? You need to buy a new computer to get better performance.

If he didn't needed to upgrade his computer in 4 years, I'm pretty sure it's not a "super-gamming" computer anymore. And by the way, a 2k$ computer for gaming? Tell me you're joking! Do you realize that with the cost of up-to-date softwares, that's not even 800$ for the hardware!

Someone kept telling me that I could upgrade my computer by buying a $200 processor. Plus, how would you get better preformance without buying a new computer?

That's easy, everything you can customize when you buy it can be installed at a later date. Just as any other PC. It's roughly the same hardware anyway. I'm planning on putting a GTX 480 in my Mac Pro as soon as it get out and the fact that it's a Mac doesn't change anything.

[Txontaw]

Hmm, then you must be doing something wrong. My friend custom builds his own computers, and he has a super-gaming computer for $2000. He hasn't had to repair it at all for four years. Kind of the same thing with mine. I've had my computer for ~6 years, and it's only recently needed to be repaired, and that was because of a virus.

Also, how the heck do you upgrade a Mac? You need to buy a new computer to get better performance.

If he didn't needed to upgrade his computer in 4 years, I'm pretty sure it's not a "super-gamming" computer anymore. And by the way, a 2k$ computer for gaming? Tell me you're joking! Do you realize that with the cost of up-to-date softwares, that's not even 800$ for the hardware!

Someone kept telling me that I could upgrade my computer by buying a $200 processor. Plus, how would you get better preformance without buying a new computer?

That's easy, everything you can customize when you buy it can be installed at a later date. Just as any other PC. It's roughly the same hardware anyway. I'm planning on putting a GTX 480 in my Mac Pro as soon as it get out and the fact that it's a Mac doesn't change anything.

Actually, I am joking. He did it for $1200, sorry. Got my numbers mixed up. That was four years ago, he never had any problem with it. Just recently, he made another one that cost the same amount with insane hardware. He had to get a server case to hold it all.

Oh well. That still doesn't change the fact that the delete button doesn't delete files on a Mac. WORST. THING. EVER.

Also, I find that the Mac has really obscure key combinations to do things. Like, printscreen is Alt->Option->8 or something. WTREAC is that about? On Windows it's just "the printscreen button".

I find that the little things about Macs annoy me far more than the big stuff.

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Yeah I know what you mean. Actually, I don't mind about those shortcuts anymore but one of them. Why does return rename a file instead of opening it. That's the only one that totally doesn't make sense.

Note: The delete key does delete files. It's that forward delete that doesn't. That's because the backspace is called delete on Mac keyboards

[Txontaw]

Yeah I know what you mean. Actually, I don't mind about those shortcuts anymore but one of them. Why does return rename a file instead of opening it. That's the only one that totally doesn't make sense.

Note: The delete key does delete files. It's that forward delete that doesn't. That's because the backspace is called delete on Mac keyboards

Really? At my school neither works.

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Yeah I know what you mean. Actually, I don't mind about those shortcuts anymore but one of them. Why does return rename a file instead of opening it. That's the only one that totally doesn't make sense.

Note: The delete key does delete files. It's that forward delete that doesn't. That's because the backspace is called delete on Mac keyboards

Really? At my school neither works.

I think the actually shortcut is cmd+delete so that you just don't trash anything accidentally.

[Txontaw]

Yeah I know what you mean. Actually, I don't mind about those shortcuts anymore but one of them. Why does return rename a file instead of opening it. That's the only one that totally doesn't make sense.

Note: The delete key does delete files. It's that forward delete that doesn't. That's because the backspace is called delete on Mac keyboards

Really? At my school neither works.

I think the actually shortcut is cmd+delete so that you just don't trash anything accidentally.

See what I mean? Unnecessary complexity.

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

That's not unnesseary complexity! That's safety, there's nothing wrong with that. You have no idea how often I pressed the delete key instead of the home key on my ASUS laptop because they are just aside one and the other.

[Txontaw]

That's not unnesseary complexity! That's safety, there's nothing wrong with that. You have no idea how often I pressed the delete key instead of the home key on my ASUS laptop because they are just aside one and the other.

1. I never do that.

2. On windows, it asks if you want to confirm the delete. So, no issues.

3.

4. Profit


But seriously, Windows removes that problem just by putting a confirm box. And, if you for some reason press "yes" by accident, then just fish it out of the trash. It's not that hard.

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

Yeah I know but see, from a Mac user point of view, a message box is unnessesary complexity.

It's just an other way of solving the issue, which I happen to prefer as a power user.

[MOUNTAINBANSHEE2]

I need to stop this battle before there are punches thrown. So I have made a conprimise. If you like window more than mac and you think that mac is coplcated then you like windows. If you like macs and you think windows is complex then you can all go to hell.

Offtopic from this offtopic topic which is offtopic and is then called an offtopic topic that is going offtopic from the origanal topic (sorry just hade to do it), would any of you find it weard if I told you that most of the time now I walk around my home on both hands and legs and also hisses at people who disterb me?

[Nanaki]

Offtopic from this offtopic topic which is offtopic and is then called an offtopic topic that is going offtopic from the origanal topic

XD

['Itan Atxur]

LoL! Yes, I would say I find that weird...

[Meuia te Stxeli Tstew'itan]

If you like macs and you think windows is complex then you can all go to hell.

LMAO! I laughed for 5 minutes at that line! You totally made my day here

[Txontaw]

TOPIC CHANGE:

Has anyone read about Portal 2? It looks amazing!

['Itan Atxur]

TOPIC CHANGE:

Has anyone read about Portal 2? It looks amazing!

link please!! One of my favorite games ever!!

[Txontaw]

TOPIC CHANGE:

Has anyone read about Portal 2? It looks amazing!

link please!! One of my favorite games ever!!

There's no video yet, but there's an article in Game Informer. I'll try and see if there's a leaked version online.

Here's the GameInformer Portal 2 page, I have yet to find the actual article.

http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

Here's the leaked article:

http://portalwiki.net/index.php/GameInformer_Portal_Exclusive

['Itan Atxur]

*runs to mail box. Grabs gameinformer that he left there*

[guest2859]

Heh, being me and having nothing more than a PS2 and busted PSP, I don't really have anything to rave about. But I found what I could be doing:

http://www.devry.edu/locations/search_programs_location.jsp