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petsfed
May 9, 2007, 6:24 PM
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Call me old fashioned, but I prefer wiring harnesses when I install new components. It makes it so if I want to swap out the motherboard, I can pick a new one, not just the same one. I'm also curious about airflow on this thing, especially considering how much raw power you can cram into this thing. Heat management, I should think, could be a very severe problem (ala the first rendition of the Mac Mini, which shipped without any kind of cooling fans) in this highly compartmentalized case.
But then again, I can't really afford the dream rig from Apple (its $17,000, give or take a few hundred), so its largely moot.
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microbarn
May 10, 2007, 1:26 AM
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My big problem with the mac vs pc commercials is that PC means personal computer. A mac is a PC.
On that note, when you get an 8 processor computer, that is a computer that is made to work and be used. You can get windows machines like that, but you have to look into the server marketing for that. They exist, but they don't market to the people that don't need it. If you want the machine, you can get it independent of the OS.
As for naming mac viruses, I don't even know windows virus names. I am not a name person myself. I don't doubt that other people know the names though. Here are some mac viruses that aren't through relaxed rules:
http://www.macvirus.org/
I don't know why I am posting any more. I should have let this thread go on without me. I think I hit all the points that still haven't been addressed.
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azmtbkr81
May 10, 2007, 9:23 PM
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You can buy a PC spec'ed almost identically, check out HP or even Dell's workstations, they are mostly used by engineers for CAD or drafting.
I am a network admin for a publishing/design firm and we have about 50/50 PCs and Macs. I honestly can't say one is better than the other. Our 2 head designers get to pick their computers and one of them has a high end MAC desktop and the other an HP workstation running Windows XP. Both are running the exact same set of applications equally well.
I really think people make too big of a deal out of the differences, both are tools that can get any computing job done equally well. I have 2 computers at work a PC desktop and a Macbook laptop. I love both of them and can do my work equally well on either.
In our office most people are happy working on either type of machine. Really the only people in our company who turn their noses up at PCs are the hipster/emo kids with spikey hair and shiny studded belts but then again they aren't happy about much in life anyways
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coastal_climber
May 12, 2007, 7:31 PM
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http://www.buymacorpc.com/?macorpc=3&video_id=42
>Cam
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microbarn
May 14, 2007, 12:16 PM
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now clicky for real instead of pretend underline
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