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Congrats, too!


Wow, sounds like you held out longer than me.  Good things come to those who wait, eh?  I couldn't be happier right now.



  I've been using my 800 Tibook as my main machine since it came out.  I'm amazed at how fast my G5 is.  It's all full of Ram and the Airport card is installed.  Busy downloading drivers for all my hardware.  This is going to be a late night.

Damn, it's heavy, too!



Zzzzz...

Last edited by misterboo (2005-04-30 2:28 am)

OH YEAH!!!!?/!


well um... um! damn.  I was going to make a reason why my eMac was superior to the G5's but oh well.

the G5's aarrrreee nice.

Buying the latest and greatest is always a bad idea.  Look at the 2 GHz model and how far the price has fallen.  It's always better to buy the 2nd or 3rd from the top and it will retain it's resale value better (especially on eBay) and the money saved can be spent on the needed RAM and Video upgrades that Macs always need.

Jon wrote:

fingerjello wrote:

Buying the latest and greatest is always a bad idea.  Look at the 2 GHz model and how far the price has fallen.  It's always better to buy the 2nd or 3rd from the top and it will retain it's resale value better (especially on eBay) and the money saved can be spent on the needed RAM and Video upgrades that Macs always need.

Congrats, fingerjello actually made a point for once.http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/max … ent/up.gif

I think someone else in the family got a hold of his computer.

Czachorski wrote:

Jon wrote:

fingerjello wrote:

Buying the latest and greatest is always a bad idea.  Look at the 2 GHz model and how far the price has fallen.  It's always better to buy the 2nd or 3rd from the top and it will retain it's resale value better (especially on eBay) and the money saved can be spent on the needed RAM and Video upgrades that Macs always need.

Congrats, fingerjello actually made a point for once.http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/max … ent/up.gif

Always a bad idea?  What if you are rich?

How much money you have and how you spend it is not necessary interlink.

avkills wrote:

Funny how the PC tools always say "oh you should not buy the latest and greatest", yet they complain about things like lack of PCIe and the memory is not fast enough, not enough ???, blah blah blah....

So true and further proof that he is a hypocrite.

He works for konfabulator, is in love with Apple and is spiteful because he can't afford more RAM.  It is so obvious.

The middle system is usually going to have a long useful life and the most bang for your buck.  Doesn't cost nearly as much as the top system, and won't go obsolete for a quite some time.

Yeah, ideally, one should buy a mid/low range PC and then spend the rest of their lives and income upgrading every few months because they want teh best machine to run Quake/Doom/Other flavour of the month Game on.

What I 'should' do is none of your business.  I legitimately wanted the fastest possible because I've waited for years to buy a new machine and I need something fast to run Logic on.  I don't really care how much things cost and rarely sell anything anyway, so resale value doesn't matter.

Go away and stop being a baby or I'll kick your ar$e down the stairs.

This new thing is AMAZING!  It flys!  Loads of audio, soft instruments and plugins and no HD audio streaming due to fat ram.  My poor little powerbook was being pushed to the limits.

Last edited by misterboo (2005-04-30 2:48 pm)

avkills wrote:

Funny how the PC tools always say "oh you should not buy the latest and greatest", yet they complain about things like lack of PCIe and the memory is not fast enough, not enough ???, blah blah blah....

That is where your Apple blinders need to be removed.  Even PCs that are NOT the latest and greatest are consistently far ahead of Apple in adopting higher performing technology.  You don't need to spend a lot to get a PC with PCIe graphics, a dual layer 16X DVD+-RW, SATA hard drives, DDR2 memory, etc. 

For example, the latest and greatest PC right now would be a Dual, Dual-Core Opteron with dual PCIe 6800 Graphics Cards in SLI mode, and 2 10,000 rpm hard drives.  Neato.  Well a person with a Single CPU Athlon 64 4000+, a single PCIe 6800 graphics card, and 2 7,200 rpm SATA drives in RAID 0 array would be just as modern, just not as fast- yet in 99% of programs the user wouldn't even notice the differece.  Just like the guy with a dual 2.7 GHz G5 isn't going to notice an improvement over a 2.0 G5 99% of the time.  Get it?

The funniest thing is when people load up insane amounts of RAM.  After 1 GB, the performance gain is 1-4% depending on the program.  Unless you are an audio pro loading up tons of samples into a multi-track program, or a multi-tasker who likes to have every possible program open at once, going beyond 1 GB is almost never needed.

Last edited by fingerjello (2005-04-30 8:34 pm)

fingerjello wrote:

avkills wrote:

Funny how the PC tools always say "oh you should not buy the latest and greatest", yet they complain about things like lack of PCIe and the memory is not fast enough, not enough ???, blah blah blah....

That is where your Apple blinders need to be removed.  Even PCs that are NOT the latest and greatest are consistently far ahead of Apple in adopting higher performing technology.

What the hell are you smoking?? "Even PCs that are NOT the latest and greatest are consistently far ahead of Apple in adopting higher performing technology" Who had Firewire stock for the everyday user first? Apple, While PC's where still giving you a stupid @$$ floppy  drive.

I've been transferring things by hand, so I can start as cleanly as possible, but that's simply voodoo.

It's an amazing machine.  Expose is nuts on this thing.  1 million windows under my control!  Zoom!

misterboo wrote:

I'm just unwrapping my...

Dual 2.7 with 4 gigs of Ram and an Airport card...

I got a 10% discount with the little scratch card, too! 

Whoo hoo!

i wish i had a spare 3K just lying around with nothing to do.