Mac or not?

Awec

Marty_J wrote: »

You can get one for around £700 (less if you know a student), so it's hardly lottery winning stuff.

If I won the lottery, I would get a Mac Pro with two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 32 GB of RAM, 4 TB of HDD space, four NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics cards with 2 TB of memory, and two 30-inch HD Apple displays.

I AM a student (in Northern Ireland).

How much do I save?

Cat695

Leopard wrote: »

Yes.

And I'm posting this on one.

Mine is eight years old, 1.2 GHz GPU, GeForce 3 graphics, 120 GB 7200 rpm, 1.5 GB of RAM, Harmon Kardon Soundsticks, 100-T Ethernet, Firewire x2, USB x2, Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, Airport 802.11 b/g, running the latest Mac OS 10.5.6 (with iLife 08, iWork 08, Office 2008) and displaying it on a 23" Apple HD monitor.

Taking one apart to upgrade it (which I last did 6 years ago) confronts you with an truly awe-inspiring work of interlocking precision engineering.

You could even, God forbid, run Windows on one if you were mad. :eek:

It was, and remains, the masterpiece of a genius.



Cat695,

No searching required at all; it was easy to find.

I remember that particular thread well. I watched it unfurl in a corner of my monitor as you spent a whole afternoon demonstrating your ignorance and illiteracy by wasting the time of a bunch of Mac regulars who ought to have known better than to spend their time arguing with you. I even, as I recall, got a PM from markymoo - bless him - urging me to enter the fray.

But I wasn't tempted. I was busy, instead, ensuring that I nailed for £88 the only only $300 (plus intercontinental shipping and VAT) Bookendz docking station for a FW800 MacBook Pro that has ever been offered on eBay UK over the last two years.

It was a greatly more profitable use of my time and I was extremely grateful to you for keeping distracted everyone else on here who might otherwise have raised the price I had to pay for it. (Not that anyone else was ever going to outbid me on that one - I had three Macs, running three different browsers, on three different ISPs training their gunsights on it)

So, I remembered you for the very great great favour you did me, quite inadvertently, on the afternoon of 14 August 2008. :money:

I think of you and chuckle every time I dock a ProBook into that invaluable Bookendz.

I'm glad I finally got to thank you.

Looks like another f*ckwit who thinks he's better than everyone else because I've got a MAC gets put on ignore then.......don't kid yourself kidda....you know they are over priced inferior machines because you have to buy second hand ones....must feel so good. moron

Leopard

Cat695 wrote: »

Looks like another f*ckwit who thinks he's better than everyone else because I've got a MAC gets put on ignore then.......don't kid yourself kidda....you know they are over priced inferior machines because you have to buy second hand ones....must feel so good. moron

Ah: the carefully-fabricated smooth mask drops. I figured it would.

Looks like I got it right with my own single posting to that thread after I'd nailed the Bookendz, then.

Leopard wrote: »

Why on earth have all you normally quite sensible people spent a whole afternoon arguing with this pathetic to$$er?

He's an angry little man with a grievance who can't afford a Mac. He doesn't even know the difference between a Mac and a MAC.

Just console yourselves with the thought that those who use Macs need people like him to keep using Windows and act as virus-fodder for us.

I've spent my afternoon a lot more constructively (and profitably) elsewhere.


Oh yes, what can't you do on a PC that you can do on a Mac? Boot it off an unpowered external Firewire drive or use Target mode. But he wouldn't know what that is, would he?

Thanks for having made a £1,500 Mac now available to someone who can properly appreciate it, at a discounted price from the Apple refurbs store. :T

Marty_J

Awec wrote: »

I AM a student (in Northern Ireland).

How much do I save?

A friend of mine who is a student recently purchased a white MacBook from the Apple Store in Belfast for (he thinks) £540. You can also get discounts on software there too.

Idiophreak

Marty_J wrote: »

You can get one for around £700 (less if you know a student), so it's hardly lottery winning stuff.

If I won the lottery, I would get a Mac Pro with two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 32 GB of RAM, 4 TB of HDD space, four NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics cards with 2 TB of memory, and two 30-inch HD Apple displays.

Of course you wouldn't need all that stuff, but it would look super-pretty sat on the shelf

Incidentally, something I've never really understood about mac desktops...If you assume that most macs' primary function is for posing and showing off in Starbucks (that's pretty much a given, right? ), surely a non-portable mac is kinda like a chocolate teapot?

Marty_J

Cat695 wrote: »

Looks like another f*ckwit who thinks he's better than everyone else because I've got a MAC gets put on ignore then.......don't kid yourself kidda....you know they are over priced inferior machines because you have to buy second hand ones....must feel so good. moron

I struggle to see how an 8 year old computer that is currently running the latest operating system demonstrates that it is "over priced" or "inferior", but whatever.

Marty_J

Idiophreak wrote: »

Of course you wouldn't need all that stuff, but it would look super-pretty sat on the shelf

I would have no problem using all that stuff. It would run Logic Studio like a dream.

Incidentally, something I've never really understood about mac desktops...If you assume that most macs' primary function is for posing and showing off in Starbucks (that's pretty much a given, right? ), surely a non-portable mac is kinda like a chocolate teapot?

One is drawn to the inevitable conclusion that posing might not their primary function then.

Frankly, I think it's a bit odd that anyone would think someone has an ulterior motive for not wanting to use Windows (because it's just so awesome, right?).

As a musician, I know I would have a pretty hard time using Windows for any of the things I do. Pretty much every major recording studio in the world also agrees with me.

Awec

Marty_J wrote: »

A friend of mine who is a student recently purchased a white MacBook from the Apple Store in Belfast for (he thinks) £540. You can also get discounts on software there too.

Really?! That's cheap!

I assume all I need is my QUB student card?

Marty_J

Awec wrote: »

Really?! That's cheap!

I assume all I need is my QUB student card?

I would assume so. Go down and have a chat with them, they're very friendly.

Awec

Will do.

Thanks for the info!