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make fake ids with photoshop

download porn by the GB... make an iDVD of it...

I was just about to recommend F@H

Code your own games (huzzah for XCode!) and sell them to other Mac addicts.

Well, I was already planning on joining the Folding team, so I've got that one covered.

I think someone should develop a program that lets one user working on a large calculation (or set of calculations/simulations) distribute the work to net-connected computers, much like SETI or Folding@home does.  The difference would be that connected computers get paid a (minimal) fee for the computer time.  That way, anyone with a reasonably-sized pocketbook could have the power of a supercomputer, without actually having to build or rent one.  All the calculations would be managed by a central server, and no one user would be able to gain any intellectual property from the packets they receive.  And, the faster you wanted results, the more "nodes" you would purchase.  It would scale very easily from small to large projects.

And, now that I've thought of it, someone will tell me that distributed computing for rent has been around for years...

3D modeling, animation and rendering. And games

ANYTHING you want!  Except play games.... (awaits flames....)

no one flamed you? that is odd.

i guess people are finally accepting the fact that most mac games are lame.

Just let it sit there and look pretty.

ANYTHING you want!  Except play games.... (awaits flames....)

no one flamed you? that is odd.

i guess people are finally accepting the fact that most mac games are lame.

*Flynntastic flames SpacemanSpiff*

There, does the universe now seem in balance, Stoned?

At the risk of coming accross like a flamer, isn't this sort of a bass-ackwards way of doing things? Buy an expensive, powerful computer and then try to figure out what to do with all that power? So why did you buy that G5? Just for bragging rights? Or simply to have the latest and greatest?

A more logical approach would be to list the things you need to do with your computer, then a separate list of the things you want to do, but don't necessarily need to do. Decide how much power, memory, HD space etc. you need for the first list, see how this fits into your budget, then, if finances allow, move up in power some to take care of the second list and future needs, if possible.

Nothing wrong with a computer that you can grow into.  It really doesn't take much to get your computer working.  Just use iPhoto or iTunes and you'll be pushing those CPU's.  Maybe in a few months he gets happy and wants to really edit his photo's.  Here comes Photoshop and those CPU's will make his computing experience a very nice one.  Like I said with iPhoto and iTunes.  Both tax the CPU when doing any editing in iPhoto or encoding WAV or AIFF audio into MP3's or AAC files.  Not to mention that he can do all that at once very fast. 

Just because you can get by with a single 1.6 or even the older G4's.  Doesn't meant that you should.  Having a faster system will allow you to do more and or more at the same time.  And being that OS X is easy to use and just works, you will enjoy that speed even more.

If you get the chance run this Altivec Demo

And post up your score.   

How many people really need a Porsche or Aston Martin or Hummer (the SUV...)?  Some folks are willing to pay more for speed or muscle, even if they don't need it.

Some folks just got more money than sense... 

Rip all your CDs, import all your photos and capture all your video.  Then start weaving beautiful materpiece home-documentaries from all that great content.