mostirreverent wrote:
there is a company that makes a gread disk retreaval program called Disk Worriar for the mac. i asked them if they had a program like norton since norton droped the mac. they guy said it is built in. save your money. and i had my credit card waiting. the only reason i have a PC is to do 3D cad work with solidworks. there is only one or two programs on the mac, but
none like solidworks. But Apple screw that market up. too bad. for most things, my 6yo mac seem just as fast as a P4 2GHz machine.
i just noticed to day that i cant drag stuff from the web to word and have word stay in the background (though i have an older version of office on my XP professional machine. i can witth the better office for the mac. they were made seperately and a lot of the mac word stuff was not availiabl on the pc version at the time. not sure about now. they had a seperate Mac bussiness unit.
i can swop boards and throw dip switches on ether platform, but i pray for the poor bastards using windows then are not computer savy. i just put in a quadra 700 nvidia bord in and it was not under the monitor area but under graphics displays. and there was nowhere in the control pannels that idicated graphics. i new enough to go to hardware, and knew what a graphics dispaly vs a graphis card was. otherwise i would have not known how to set up the driver. and on the mac, you dont have to deal with drivers (except for a printer sometimes). Pluse word will save right to pdf.
Gee, thanks for the extra info on Macs. No wonder they are starting to take a better share of the market. I guess teenages and their Apple iPods would help. Also, have you noticed that every movie these days, especailly those aimed at teenagers, have major Apple sponsoring? I think it's a good thing for market fairness really.
I'll definately have to look at Apple for my next computer.
If you want some boring statistics, the new PC I just built is made from: Asus P5P800 SE mother board.-7spkr on board surround sound with some new Philips/Sony digital audio output for true digital sound through a home theatre. It also supports the latest 64bit dual core chips, but I'm on a tight budget, so I got a Celeron 2.8Ghz for now.
I put in 1GB of RAM, but I can put up to 4GB total.
Radion 9550 256MB graphics card (Supports dual monitors and also has analogue TV out)
Although the motherboard supports SATA drives, I'm using my old ones until the price comes down.
I transfered my old analogue TV-Rado card into this PC, even though I have never used it. lol
I wanted a big case to support loads of stuff, so I bought a shiney black one called "Soprano" made by Thermaltake. Somehow I got it cheap (I recon they priced it wrong) It has one of those transparrent show-off panels on the side so I can add some poxy lights if I ever feel like wasting some money. Plus it has keys to lock the case shut (including a door on the front) There are so many fans! One masive fan at the front to draw air in thtough a removable filter, one fan on the side to draw hot air away from the processor, on big fan on the back, one directly over the chip, one on the graphics card, two on the power supply and one on the removable hard drive bay!
Eventually I want to max out all the bays, because I can. The case has 4x CD bays, 2x floppy bays and 7 dedicated HD bays. Oh, and it has extra ports on top for Fire wire, audio in and out, and 2 extra USB ports.
Its a beast!
I saved a few hundred dollars because I built it all myself. Excluding my old components: TV card, CD-DVD drives and hard drives, it only cost about $AU550. I would hav paid close to $AU1000 for an equivelant pre-built PC in the shops.
