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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2007 at 03:20
Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:


For those who don't need the PC for a lot of games and/or specialized apps, I heartily recommend Ubuntu.

For sure, why not?

I have to use OS 9, OS X, and to a lesser extent XP at work, but I've run nothing but Ubuntu at home and it does everything I need. And it's much easier to update to a new version because I don't have to go out to some shop and buy a CD, it just does it for me every six months. Wonderful!
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Well, if anyone is still interested, I opted for another PC in the end (just fired it up today, in fact -- up too late trying it out).
 
The Apple was just too big a leap into the unknown, and this PC seems to be a better gaming platform. I also wanted it to be fully compatible with the network at work (PC), and with all of the games my kids and I already have.
 
It is very powerful, apparently, with a really good video card, a "quadcore" processor (whatever that isEmbarrassed), a 22" flatscreen Acer monitor, Microsoft Vista, and all the latest bells & whistles.
 
Cost me just under 2000 Canadian (that's a little over $2000 US) -- just about the most one could spend for just a generic tower & a 22" monitor.
 
I like it -- & my kids love it.Smile
 
Maybe I'll still get an Apple some day....Ermm
 
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Points: 9669 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2007 at 23:55
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

I love my new mac. That is my technical input.
EmbarrassedI don't understand most of what you guys are talking about, but I understood that.Big%20smile
 
Thanks for all of the input, though. From what I can gather, there seems to be no major drawbacks to a Mac, and they're generally virus & freezeup free. That sounds good.
 
I'll let you all know here what I eventually do.Smile


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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

I've barely used it (booted a couple of times in Ubuntu and Knoppix in order to move around some system files Windows wouldn't let me touch), but I can't help but love Linux.  It's just so awesome that everything is non-profit and open-sourced, put together for free by the warm-hearted coders of the world. 


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And, if I'm not mistaken, Windows 1.0 borrowed quite heavily from the Apple Lisa operating system.  So it could be argued that Microsoft has been stealing ideas from Apple ever since Microsoft was founded. 

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Originally posted by NaturalScience NaturalScience wrote:



Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

And, besides, PC stole ideas from Mac OS X for Vista.


Vista was Windows playing catch-up with OSX. Now that it has finally arrived, Apple is about to unveil Leopard.

Oh, and I don't know why we didn't mention this before, but if you absolutely can't live without Windows, there are Intel-Macs.
I did mention this before.


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Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

I've barely used it (booted a couple of times in Ubuntu and Knoppix in order to move around some system files Windows wouldn't let me touch), but I can't help but love Linux.  It's just so awesome that everything is non-profit and open-sourced, put together for free by the warm-hearted coders of the world. 


I've been running Linux at work (previous job, and now at my new one) for the past five years.  I've most been running Redhat/Fedora, but now I'm sold on Ubuntu.  Linux has made great strides in that time - used to be you had to edit config files just to get your damn monitor to work properly, but with the latest Ubuntu on my laptop, everything "just works" (including wireless, which used to be a real PITA).

For those who don't need the PC for a lot of games and/or specialized apps, I heartily recommend Ubuntu.
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I've barely used it (booted a couple of times in Ubuntu and Knoppix in order to move around some system files Windows wouldn't let me touch), but I can't help but love Linux.  It's just so awesome that everything is non-profit and open-sourced, put together for free by the warm-hearted coders of the world. 

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Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

And, besides, PC stole ideas from Mac OS X for Vista.


Vista was Windows playing catch-up with OSX. Now that it has finally arrived, Apple is about to unveil Leopard.

Oh, and I don't know why we didn't mention this before, but if you absolutely can't live without Windows, there are Intel-Macs.


I did mention this before.

And besides, Linux FTW!!  Wink


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I love my new mac. That is my technical input.
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Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

And, besides, PC stole ideas from Mac OS X for Vista.


Vista was Windows playing catch-up with OSX. Now that it has finally arrived, Apple is about to unveil Leopard.

Oh, and I don't know why we didn't mention this before, but if you absolutely can't live without Windows, there are Intel-Macs.


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And, besides, PC stole ideas from Mac OS X for Vista.
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I generally defend PC's, but I just can't find it in my heart to defend Vista.  It's the same as XP, except they uglified the color scheme, killed the Run menu and Telnet (Broken%20Heart), made the start menu less convenient, and added a few security fixes that they probably could have just put in a Windows Update (and that are unnecessary if you have anti-virus software, which everyone should).  That hardly seems worth paying the money for an upgrade.  I'm just fine with XP, thanks.  

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Window Vista has done a lot to improve PC security as the built in firewall is very good. You don't need to run an anti-virus program like Norton which hogs your computer's resources, instead go for one like Avast  which is barely noticable and finally don't use Internet Explorer as it's full of holes for Viruses and Spyware to get through, Firefox and Opera are much bettter options for web browsing.
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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 24 2007 at 01:07
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:


Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

There is really one basic question that needs to be asked. Are you a big fan of viruses, spyware (and the prigrams you need to have constantly running to combat this) , and freeze-ups?
Oh man; it's incredible how inconvenient it is to run AdAware and Spybot once a week.  I can honestly say I've never had a problem with viruses or spyware, and that anybody with a fully-functioning brain can quite easily avoid problems without any inconvenience. 


I just find it counterproductive. On my old PC, I had to have three programs in constant operation. If I didn't, the freeze-ups would be even more frequent (in other words, it happened anyway). With the Mac, I don't have to run any protective software, and it never freezes.



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Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

There is really one basic question that needs to be asked. Are you a big fan of viruses, spyware (and the prigrams you need to have constantly running to combat this) , and freeze-ups?



Oh man; it's incredible how inconvenient it is to run AdAware and Spybot once a week.  I can honestly say I've never had a problem with viruses or spyware, and that anybody with a fully-functioning brain can quite easily avoid problems without any inconvenience. 

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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

My friend got a Mac laptop before college, and he took it everywhere he went with our friends. Everywhere. And he was on it all the time, practically. I believe it took his soul, much in the way the Aborigines of Australia believe photographs can take your soul. For this reason, I suggest a PC.


The PC creates the same addiction, the only problem is that it's so damn big and complicated that it can't be moved easily (hence the thumbs up for Mac's system architects!). Whenever I don't get to be around my PC for a full 24 hrs, I get filled with paranoid anxiety LOL

The worst thing however is when my Internet loses connection - after two hours I start shrieking and when the connection comes back, I feel the urge to implant the wires directly into my arms's veins for better feed Embarrassed


andu, get a life! Angry


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Wait, did you mean OS (system) updates, or program updates?
Anyway, it's mostly the same for program updates too - you don't need to restart after each program updated, it only says the update will take effect only after restart (which is actually only a precaution, usually the update effects apply even before the restart).
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:37
My friend got a Mac laptop before college, and he took it everywhere he went with our friends. Everywhere. And he was on it all the time, practically. I believe it took his soul, much in the way the Aborigines of Australia believe photographs can take your soul. For this reason, I suggest a PC.

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