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why are macs so damn expensive??
cocoamix:
Go to ebay. Blue and White G3's are fetching over $500 regularly.
Something about how they retain their value so well.
And in case you didn't know, NEVER buy any components like RAM or HD upgrades from Apple. You'll get reamed on prices. AFAIK, Apple is the only place you can get NVidia cards for Macs, but you can also flash the ROM of a PC version (some, anyway) and use it in a Mac, if you have the balls to try that.
Chooco:
fascinating. just a few questions though
-what FPS do you get in Quake3? or better yet, Half-Life (Quake3 is the standard but i own Half-Life so i would understand that better)
-can you run a web server on a Mac?
-what components do you NEED to get specialy made for a mac? i know my friend got rammed for floppy disks, he thought you need mac floppy disks to use but one day i wanted a copy of the city he made in SimCity 200 so i busted out a mac floppy and put it on there.....he was stunned that it would actually write onto it lol. it worked too ;) it was a Wintel computer we were using the floppies in.
ravuya:
Apple seriously overcharges for RAM. Buy the least possible, then go out and pick up some stuff from Crucial.com.
ravuya:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
[QB]fascinating. just a few questions though
-what FPS do you get in Quake3? or better yet, Half-Life (Quake3 is the standard but i own Half-Life so i would understand that better)
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I get about 45 on my iMac 600. (G3)
quote:-can you run a web server on a Mac?
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Yes, in fact Mac OS X has Apache built in. Just turn it on, and bam you're serving web pages.
quote:-what components do you NEED to get specialy made for a mac?
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Well, other than microprocessors, I can't think of anything else. USB, IDE and FireWire have enabled Macs to use all kinds of x86 (read: cheap and flimsy) perhipherals.
psyjax:
Web serving on a Mac is cake. If you want it simple, using OSX server is the way to go. It's pricy tho, I have seen it used and it is sooooo way easy.
But if you wanna be hardcore about it, Apache is on the system and it's Free. It is also standard so get a couple of O'Rilly books and your off.
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