Which Mac?

[chedabob]

I don't get bribed, its a "performance bonus".

EDIT: What the hell is a patchoulie? Actually, explain that whole sentence =\

[onelegout]

so you had to be bribed into showing up for school?. wtf has the world come to.....


Macs are for sandal wearing, patchoulie-dabbing bohemians.

I presume he's refering to EMA, which is a system in the uk where kids can get payed for going to school, BUT only if their parents earn less than 30k.
My mum's a single parent now earning like, 1000 more than the threshold income so I can't get it. All of my friends get 30 quid a week from it ($60), and what do they spend it on? Books? school stuff? food? clothing? drugs.
That is all.
90% of the people who receive EMA do not deserve it. They get given vast amounts of money to stay in school and smoke pot whilst our city's hospital must close down due to lack of funding. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong about that.

H

[chedabob]

Most of my EMA goes towards college stuff. £8 for friggin buses, and about £10 for food. But the £500 isn't going on any college stuff

[Ta10n]

Get a Alienware 5550 notebook, they happen to be on sale right now Free upgrade to a 6600 256mb, free upgrade to XP Media Center and when it comes out Vista Premium Home edition, plus a $100 instant rebate.

I honestly would never buy a Mac if you intend to do any sort of gaming (even Flight Simulator). Oh and FYI I wouldn't be surprised if the Macbook couldn't run Flight Simulator X at all, due to it's integrated graphics solution. I tried installing DOD:S on my brothers laptop with integrated graphics. The laptop was nearly brand new and the integrated graphics only supported up to Direct X 6.0. Macbooks all have integrated graphics unless you want to spend 2 grand on a Pro just to get an X1600.

Besides that you will have to repurchase your entire software library for Mac OS.
And if you'd sooner just install boot camp you've completely defeated the purpose of purchasing a Mac.

Anyway thats just my 2 cents.

[chedabob]

I really wanted a mac though.

Id have to run bootcamp, but Id mainly use Mac Os, but Id need windows for Visual Studio for college (although I could run parallels).

I really want to play FSX cos this pc im on is terrible and barely runs 2004.

[CanaBalistic]

Thats entirely not true... They advertise on thier tv commercials that you can run any windows program on a mac, including games. And mac's even though they may appear to have "less" power, perform far better than an equivalent windows machine.

I'd love to get myself one of thoes dual proc G5's

[Arden]

wrong...ill customize a pc right now for under a grand that can outperform a mac...one sec.

Intel® Core™ Duo T2050 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Express Upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium from XP Media Center Edition
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display with TrueLife™
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™
Integrated Audio
My Accessories
53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Dell Wireless 1390b/g (54Mbps)
My Software
No productivity suite- Includes Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
No Security Subscription
Trial pack- Basic and trial products from Corel and Yahoo
My Service
1Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service
6 Months America Online Internet Access Included
Also Includes
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
Windows Vista™ Capable
Intel Core Duo Processor

[Ta10n]

Thats entirely not true... They advertise on thier tv commercials that you can run any windows program on a mac, including games. And mac's even though they may appear to have "less" power, perform far better than an equivalent windows machine.

I'd love to get myself one of thoes dual proc G5's

I haven't seen that commercial, but they are referring to boot camp. And they don't mention that you have to pay $150 to get the Windows OS so you can use that feature. As far as performance goes I have never been impressed with Macintosh. To be honest with you they offer nothing that a similarly priced PC doesn't offer.

wrong...ill customize a pc right now for under a grand that can outperform a mac...one sec.

Intel® Core™ Duo T2050 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Media Center Edition 2005
Express Upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium from XP Media Center Edition
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA Display with TrueLife™
1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
120GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
24X CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™
Integrated Audio
My Accessories
53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Dell Wireless 1390b/g (54Mbps)
My Software
No productivity suite- Includes Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
No Security Subscription
Trial pack- Basic and trial products from Corel and Yahoo
My Service
1Yr Ltd Warranty and At-Home Service
6 Months America Online Internet Access Included
Also Includes
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
Windows Vista™ Capable
Intel Core Duo Processor

Yes, PC FTW! Add $160 to that and you can have yourself a Nvidia 7900GS in that thing!

[chedabob]

I specifically wanted a mac though

[gaz_the_chav]

drugs.
That is all.
90% of the people who receive EMA do not deserve it. They get given vast amounts of money to stay in school and smoke pot whilst our city's hospital must close down due to lack of funding. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong about that.

H

What a load of crap - You have to get some alcohol surely?!

jokes

-gaz