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What is it you HAVE to use a PC for? Apart from gaming!
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I like being able to muck around with computers, so I have a few PCs which I can mess around with without worrying about losing important data and stuff. Plus, I can upgrade more than the RAM myself, I can only do that on a Mac if I spend thousands on a Mac Pro.
I must confess that I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to get OSx86 to run on my PCs though!
I must confess that I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to get OSx86 to run on my PCs though!
Not without getting, to be blunt, the shaft, with Ram prices or Apples stupid product line up. If I want a quad core machine with 8 gig of ram - it's little short of £2k. That would buy me a whole new workstation with 8 gig of ram, a proper workstation system disk ( velociraptor or SSD), plenty of storage, plus three quad core, 4gb render nodes.
And as for Graphics - I'm OS ambivolent. imho, I find all the CS4 apps run better on XP than OSX. Truthfully - they're all fairly crap in the CS4 incarnation - Adobe have dropped the ball in a major way - but they work better for me, on XP.
Why Media Centre?
Me? Ive had no need for a PC ever since the console race got serious.
autodesk
3ds max
microsoft office
adobe CS3 software 64-bit
a bunch of other architect and engineering software
but mostly for gaming
personal stuff and all that i leave for the mac
but later i'll invest in a mac pro to do everything in parallels
3ds max
microsoft office
adobe CS3 software 64-bit
a bunch of other architect and engineering software
but mostly for gaming
personal stuff and all that i leave for the mac
but later i'll invest in a mac pro to do everything in parallels
I think I've found the answer.
I HAVE to have a PC, to avoid getting ripped off.
Technically, everything people have said they need a PC for could be done with Bootcamp (I think) - we just don't want to put our vital organs on Ebay to buy a Mac Pro.
I HAVE to have a PC, to avoid getting ripped off.
Technically, everything people have said they need a PC for could be done with Bootcamp (I think) - we just don't want to put our vital organs on Ebay to buy a Mac Pro.
Only the Need For Speed games, although once I beat the game I promptly uninstall windows and restore the Mac to Mac OS X only. Inefficient I know, but I just have a dirty feeling when I have windows installed
cs4 to actually use all of my ram on my 64-bit amd machine.
adobe audition seeing as theres no native mac version and it doesn't properly run in bootcamp/vm fusion/etc
my macbook is just my portable machine for simple stuff like email/browsing etc etc.
i use my pc for real work.
adobe audition seeing as theres no native mac version and it doesn't properly run in bootcamp/vm fusion/etc
my macbook is just my portable machine for simple stuff like email/browsing etc etc.
i use my pc for real work.
Folding for MacRumors on my GPU.
Is the difference in Handbrake noticeable with the HT on?
My PC hard drive died.
I replaced it with an iMac and Parallels. This kind of grays things. The iMac is a good PC.
I replaced it with an iMac and Parallels. This kind of grays things. The iMac is a good PC.
You should be able to type *#0000#, click Options then "Check for updates" and upgrade over-the-air on the phone itself. That is if it does it on WiFi or if you have a data plan of course.
Rhino 3D (Yes, I am also using the OSX beta, but… see below)
Maxwell Render. (Until Next Limit get their stuff together and write a plugin for the Mac version of Rhino…)
Nothing else apart from an occasional game.