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We done good. Though we never really had a formal practice we all have played together in UT enough that it worked very well. I think if we made a concerted effort to practice together and work on or communication we could do some stuff. Will have to get G5 again before they have more time to practice.

Pur gets hero award for sticking in there with all the trouble he had staying online. Ya' done good bud!

I"ll be starting school in January.

There you go, Brain! "Honey (or preferred term of endearment for one's significant other) you know with me going back to school I really need that G5 to excel in my studies." This of course slipped into the conversation after a nice bottle of wine and candle light (meal optional).

Wait for the first rev of the G5 motherboard.  That should probably occur within a month or two.  You don't want to buy a hardware defect.

I need a G5 to play 2k3.

Well, there is always the dark side. 

I never dropped a frame on Saturday, never dropped below 30FPS, never crashed and got some killer screens.

Pur you play great with lesser equipment than I have. You have my respect!

there is always the dark side

I only have room for one computer on my desk now. I've got about $4K invested in Mac software, which is absolutely the most comfortable environment for me to make money in.

There's a part of me that would like to own an Alienware box, but the hassle of all those security updates, worms, trojans, spyware, RegEdit, fear of email, the M$ Oops Factor (as in "Oops my box was working fine yesterday"; I got a million of these stories) make it a very risky investment for my business. Gaming is a great hobby, but ...

LOL! You're probably right. I never open anything like that on the Mac, of course, .exes never run on the Mac anyway, and I don't use any Microsoft macro-running software so things are good.

It was secretly fun watching everyone scramble at work as virus after virus hit the network. Luckily we had a good hacker in IT, who'd know the ports these things came in on. After a few good scares they'd managed to close almost all the ports on the PCs, until somebody got a new one.

So where do you get your community as a Windows user? What BBS do you hang out on, where you ask questions about your box, etc.?

There's a part of me that would like to own an Alienware box,...

Ahh, I'm not alone in my closet Alienware lust.

Most of my hanging out is done at mfg. sites (Dell, Cisco, Sonicwall & M$). Tons of reading online and off. MaxPC and Google searches were the biggest help in building my PC.

Two reasons I went the PC route are:
1) I don't work with Macs anymore. Since my layoff and vow that I'd never get back into the printing industry. My new employer doesn't have any Macs. Now the future of that is totally up to me.
2) Games, I'm an advid gamer. I don't golf or have many other expensive hobbies. I spend about the same time and money on fishing and gaming. So those are my two outlets. I've grown tired of waiting for my favorite games to come to my favorite platform (if they come at all). Can you say Half Life 2?