And the correct answer is, of course, Crapple! Dude, do yourself a favour, get a real puter.
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what did i just spend $2300 on?
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And the correct answer is, of course, Crapple! Dude, do yourself a favour, get a real puter.
Actually, it's only $1800. Are you forgetting the $500 you paid for thelogo?
LOL...
Congratulations, it's a Mac...
(Make it a PC - try Bootcamp?)
Quick question regarding returning an iMac 4850.
I had the iMac delivered 8 days ago at a secure location away from where I currently live and so I can't even boot it up until 9 days after it was delivered.
My question is if I have an iMac with the 4850 freezing issues, do I have to return it within the 14 days that I got it? Aka, I have only 5 days to determine if I want to return it and get an exchange? I don't want to straight up return it, just get a replacement machine.
I do not want to pay a 10% restocking fee if a freeze occurs 15 days after it was delivered.
I had the iMac delivered 8 days ago at a secure location away from where I currently live and so I can't even boot it up until 9 days after it was delivered.
My question is if I have an iMac with the 4850 freezing issues, do I have to return it within the 14 days that I got it? Aka, I have only 5 days to determine if I want to return it and get an exchange? I don't want to straight up return it, just get a replacement machine.
I do not want to pay a 10% restocking fee if a freeze occurs 15 days after it was delivered.
Quit complaining. Most PC's, less newer ones specifically designed for it, can barely run Vista by itself. Here you are griping because you can't run OSX and Vista at the same time smoothly. You paid 2300 for a high end machine that runs OSX. If you want to use Vista as well try Bootcamp. Yeah you have to reboot, but it works perfectly fine. Don't blame OSX or Apple because you choose to run shi**y third party software and overload the system.
Horrible coding. People with high end cards are getting killed FPSwise in WoW.
Yep you're right. On my Windows PC I can run WoW max @ 1920X1200 and get 60+fps, but if I load up WoW on that same Windows PC using the -opengl extension I lose a good 20+fps.
The game really isn't optimized for opengl, alot of work goes into directx.
14 day rule still out there? If so, bring it back, and get the base Mac Pro with the ATI 4870.
The base Mac Pro has 3GB of RAM which is going to sputter even more than the iMac with its 4GB of RAM.
If he wants super snappy performance with OS X and XP at the same time and also wants to game, etc, simultaneously then he can pony up for a Mac Pro with a butt load of RAM and multiple video cards, which is going to run about $3500 or more not including the display. To get a display comparable to the one on the iMac he can shell out $900 for the LED Cinema.
RAM isn't the issue in this situation though. I've pointed out this fact out twice already.
mehhh LED Cinema display is too rich for my blood.
He can get a Dell 24" LCD for ~ $350 (or a Hanns·G HG-281DPB Black 27.5" LCD for the same price), and upgrade to 8GB of ram in for $145.All in all, I vote for the OP to return the iMac and exchange it for a base Mac Pro with a 4870 video card. He can later upgrade to 8GB of ram from OWC for $145.
I assume he is a student, which would get him academic pricing. $2,479.00 would get him a quad-core Mac Pro with a 512MB 4870 video card. This would be his/her best bet.
I assume he is a student, which would get him academic pricing. $2,479.00 would get him a quad-core Mac Pro with a 512MB 4870 video card. This would be his/her best bet.
Well, I'm not aware of VMWare taking advantage of quad core cpus, but maybe it does now in the latest version.
Additionally the hard drive on the Mac Pro is no faster than the one in the iMac.
And, as for RAM, many have reported that to get XP running well in VMWare it needs to be given 2GB of RAM. If you have a 3GB Mac Pro that's going to leave you 1 GB for everything else in OS X, and basing on how the Mac Mini runs with 1 GB I don't think it will be running too smooth.
I got that beat. Today I spent $30,000 on a new Chrysler.
Hehe!
Why you use Fusion for? can't WoW run natively on os x?
And iMac is without a doubt not a gamer's best computer choice.
That may be true but your argument doesn't change the fact that opengl is highly efficient and even moreso than directx in certain respects. Their Shader code is their shader code.
ha ha! I run Mac-based WoW alongside XP in Fusion all the time! I did it last night! The problem is in trying to run the game *while booting XP*. Booting up takes alllllllll the CPU it can take. Start your Windows instance, and walk away for a few minutes. You'll be fine.
Actually, it's only $1800. Are you forgetting the $500 you paid for the
wow, it's rent-a-troll the happy jester.