What, no thread yet on Apple's latest monstrocities?

[Asher]

If the memory is bottlenecked by the bus, that is factored in.

[laurentius]

Why is it that some people only value teh latest and teh fastest technology available? Isnt it more important how the stuff is designed and knit together? I mean I would rather have a slower but still damn fast, reliable and good looking Mac with awesome OS over a ready-to-blow-up-anytime overclocked Win XP PC with all the fastest memory etc wich by the way eats a lot more electricity as well. If I had enough money I'd much rather pay for combination of overall quality, aesthetics, reliability than OMFG!!11 Radeon X800 with 6000 MB and P 5 4.9 Ghz and Win XP accopanied by a horrible looking and sounding "ATX Tower"

[Asher]

It sounds like it was pretty stupid to buy a Dell Laptop if those were your concerns...

[laurentius]

Not at all. At the time I needed the best laptop available... It has been reliable, damn fast and good looking with hardware that still isnt found in 90% of the state-of-the-art laptops

Tell me, wich one is more important to you: Play the latest FPs smoothly on your PC or actually doing something creative?

[Asher]

Dells are never the best laptops available. They're cheapily built with cheap components.

And I do both with my PC.

My PC is a gaming center, a workstation (development, 3D rendering, etc), and a media center (PVR software, DivX encoding, massive media library, etc).

[laurentius]

Originally posted by Asher
Dells are never the best laptops available. They're cheapily built with cheap components.

If you say so

My PC is a gaming center, a workstation (development, 3D rendering, etc), and a media center (PVR software, DivX encoding, massive media library, etc).

Very well, thats your philosophy. You know some people, like Japanese for instance have for ages used PCs purely for business/academic purpose and have played games with consoles. Why is it so hard for you to accept this different approach? Theres more than just the Ein Way, Meine Way

[Asher]

I can understand people with basic needs, but there are much cheaper computers that do that.

If you're not using the computer to do much of anything, why pay for something still overpriced? That, I don't get.

[laurentius]

Not much of anything!? Oh come on, you know most business/academic applications require a fraction of todays standard computing power.

Cant you see computer as part of interior decoration? You dont buy awful lamp just because it illuminates well do you? You dont buy awful looking couch just because its cheap do you? Most PCs look like a total puke, given the fact that they might be cheaper and marginally faster.

Apple just has a different philosophy and approach to computing than a standart wintel geek. Money isnt everything, speed isnt everything. HL2 and Doom3 are just stunts that keep us PC lovers paying high prices to get marginally faster componenets. Much of the speed is illusion anyway. Accept it and try to learn from it.

[Asher]

As I said, the people who buy Macs buy them as household decorations.

The same kind of people who buy the New Beetle.

My case isn't ugly, and it sure as hell looks better than a PowerMac cheese grater...

[Last Conformist]

Someday I'll understand why people care much what their comp looks like. I'm basically happy as long as mine isn't pastel coloured.

[laurentius]

Asher: You mean your Antec sonata piano ?

Some people think everything you have visible in your household is a piece of the interior decoration. That said I'd be more than happy to have a Mac in my living room than a regular ATX. Design wise it probably would be a good investment too. I wouldnt have to worry about my Macs HL2 compatibility because there was none to begin with. And thts just fine with me. I would just turn on my Xbox2 and play it on that. With an LCD-projector of course

[Agathon]

These debates are now officially worse than the Libertarianism ones.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, just read something that said Apple QUADRUPLED profits in this 1Q compared to the 1Q last year. Wow! I guess I contributed to it by my iPod purchase .

Hey, if Apple does good, competition will make other computers better .

[Asher]

Quadrupling is really easy to do when you have very small profits.

They made $63M last year at this quarter.

[Patriqvium]

Apparently, it's not even possible to assemble something similar to the Mini out of standard PC parts available around here at the moment (unless one resorts to a mini or nano ITX case with an amazingly slow VIA processor and no optical drive, not really an option), which raises its shares in my eyes.
The irritating part is that the Apple folks haven't seemingly even considered this option by making their display adapter unchangable (which means that I'll have to resort to some external FireWire tuner card, were I to make such a box).