Whats making you happy right now

#4981 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:13 AM

Gothos, on 27 June 2011 - 06:47 AM, said:

Hardware?
A virtual PC won't mean usable virtual processing power.

Good point.

Silencer, on 27 June 2011 - 07:01 AM, said:

Get out! You can't be on the 'net and NOT realize why Macs are considered so horrible for gaming!

As Gothos said, the hardware is simply lower end. For the same price as a fancy new iMac, you literally get twice or greater the amount of power in a PC.

Now, thanks to the Heel Face Turn that Apple made when they adopted Intel processors and graphics card, the old incompatibility issues are not as prevalent as they once were - but up until recent years, say over the last five or six, Apple used to use different hardware entirely for their PCs, which led to a number of problems, especially for games, being unable to run on the machine, no matter the 'power' it had. This problem is still there in some ways due to the different architecture in the system, despite the hardware changes, leaving some games unusable to this day.

They're simply inferior for gaming, basically. Or you pay ridiculous prices for lower-than-top specs to be able to run modern games at decent rates, at least.

Until now, all my gaming I've done on a PC anyway, so I've never really given gaming on a Mac ~~much~~ any thought. Ahh well...we'll see how it goes.

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#4982 Silencer

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 07:16 AM

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Number of downloads: 7

^regarding the repair/maintenance issue.

Oh, and you can also get away with owning a Mac if you are a 'digital artist' and so have that whole snobbery issue going on, or like proprietary formats that no-one else can work with.

And if you love having "no viruses" (which, btw, has nothing to do with the brilliance of OS X or anything - it's because THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MAC USERS FOR PEOPLE TO BOTHER MAKING VIRUSES FOR THEM - and also is not a real issue on PCs with even a basic antivir. The nightmare stories are a by-product of quantity of consumption. 1% of 100,000,000 is a lot more than 1% of 10,000,000, for example), I guess you can get away with the Mac excuse, still.

Oh, and not having right-click, I guess, is kind of a thing of the past (as Mac conceded the brilliance of the concept by adopting it), or want to have a touchpad for a mouse as an optional peripheral. >.>

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#4983 Illuyankas

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 09:18 AM

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Mac. Not even once.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.

#4984 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 09:19 AM

I have to do a test on the computer-which means I wont have to pretend all that much

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#4985 Cyphon

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:23 AM

I got the job.

Para todos todo, para nosotros nada.

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#4986 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:40 AM

Congrats to Cyphon.

I must say, Starcraft II seems to be running better now than it ever did on my PC. Baffling.

#4987 Gothos

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:49 AM

Just how old was your PC?

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#4988 Jade-Green Pig-Hog Swine-Beast

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 11:04 AM

Well...I suppose it was 4 years old. That said, though, it was always a bit temperamental when playing games.

To keep you guys happy though, I will say that I'm using MS Outlook for my mail and stuff but over night all of my contacts and calendar entries seem to have disappeared. They're still on my phone, thankfully -- and actually they're still in Address Book and iCal, respectively, on the Mac -- but I'm not sure how I'm going to get them back into Outlook yet.

#4989 Gothos

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 11:06 AM

Just use gmail's browser interface (remember to enable https though)!

And 4 years is ancient. Damn, my machine is over 1,5 years old and I'm starting to feel a bit of a strain in it. Or maybe that's because my hard drive is a bloody mess.

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:28 PM

Shall I start a thread on the evils of the iMac? This is the what is making you happy now thread and being a mac user, you guys are bringing me down (though, I am still amused on my descent).

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:32 PM

My lightning fast ninja reactions seems to have saved my Laptop from the disastrous Irn-Bru event of a few days ago. No harm done.

The time has almost arrived where I can end my exile out in the backwoods and return to the big city

The big city....where actual people live. Instead of cows and inbred hicks with pitchforks and torches.

#4992 Gothos

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:40 PM

Gust Hubb, on 27 June 2011 - 01:28 PM, said:

Shall I start a thread on the evils of the iMac? This is the what is making you happy now thread and being a mac user, you guys are bringing me down (though, I am still amused on my descent).

When you're getting your next computer, don't overpay four times? We do accept converts.

#4993 Gust Hubb

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 01:46 PM

Gothos, on 27 June 2011 - 01:40 PM, said:

Gust Hubb, on 27 June 2011 - 01:28 PM, said:

Shall I start a thread on the evils of the iMac? This is the what is making you happy now thread and being a mac user, you guys are bringing me down (though, I am still amused on my descent).

When you're getting your next computer, don't overpay four times? We do accept converts.

Ok, let this thread return to its original purpose. Redirect Mac Vs. PC to the linked thread: http://forum.malazan...showtopic=22040

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#4994 LadyMTL

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 10:15 PM

Alrighty...as per the original topic!
I'm happy right now because it's sunny and warm out and my VIP ticket for the upcoming U2 concert shipped today, so my paranoia about not getting it in time for the show next week was groundless (as my paranoia usually is, to be honest.)

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#4995 Gothos

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Posted 28 June 2011 - 06:29 AM

Hey, I think I do need more RAM and a new graphics card even though my machine is only like 1,5 years old.

What's making me happy right now? Orange juice.

#4996 Mr.James

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Posted 28 June 2011 - 11:42 AM

all the hard work i put in this year payed off with a 3.5 GPA

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Some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which
Men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear
To witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation
Take me home
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#4997 Dag

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Posted 28 June 2011 - 02:56 PM

Just got back from the dentist and he fixed my tooth - it was a minor (albeit veeeery painful) problem, so no drilling or cutting or pulling was necessary. Yaaaay!

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 06:14 PM

Briar King, on 29 June 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

Going to watch Transformers 3 now.

See you in the Groove thread!

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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

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#4999 Illuyankas

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 06:59 PM

Finished the next part of that HoC summary. I had a lot of trouble getting it down, rewrote a couple of sections to make it more funny, rewrote them again to actually make them funny this time, gave up and kept writing anyway, and finally got down most of what I wanted to do. Only two more parts left to go...

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Posted 29 June 2011 - 07:11 PM

the Post is no longer on strike.

sent out my student loan documents for the upcoming year. get to check off another item on the summer's "to do" list.

also, picked up another shift to work for next week. take that, Management-who-didn't-give-me-a-shift-on-Saturday-even-though-I've-booked-it-as-available-and-you-know-people-will-want-it-off.

oh, and getting a haircut next week.

and it's proper summer weather here.

and i'm slowly forcing myself to get back in shape, slowly but surely.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.