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Chooco:
i plan to get a new computer around christmas or so. the bullshit behind Microsoft and the incredible SLOWNESS is a bit out of hand. i already have Mandrake Linux 8.2 on my AthlonXP 1700+ and i'm loving it (running website and game server on it) but i'm not sure if i would want to go with Linux for a main stream use computer...let's face it Linux is simply NOT MEANT to be a mainstream OS. it's a good OS for people who do work (like i do) and run servers (small ones, like i do) but for games the options are limitted, support is good but still very limited.

i have used Macs in school before, they are blazing fast (OS makes a huge difference) and i know they have a very good architecture to the processors along with good game support (probably like at least 50% of all games) but they are very expensive.....justifiably most of the time.
Mac has good support but will it really be able to replace what i do now on my Wintel computer?

Master of Reality:
it is spelt feasible.... i just had to say it.

you could get a mac then put yellowdog linux on it or NetBSD or Mandrake.

If oyu want games then mac has about the same game reputation as linux (doesnt it?). And why cant Linux be your main OS? It is my main OS, although i admit i use windows to play the odd game or two.

[ September 14, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

RudeCat7:
I'm kinda surprised about that comment. If the mainstream public needs to browse the web, send e-mail, listen to music, edit graphics, create webpages, write documents, ftp, scan, etc. etc. etc.

at a cheap price... then Linux is it, isn't it?

It's just not a good excuse. I suppose they used the same argument for changing from a typewriter to a wordprocessor. 'nuf said.

Plus, the games issue is really troubling. Stop and think, you spend at least $700 for a healthy system, and you use it for games. That is, essentially a $700 game console! On top of that you spend $30 to $50 for each game. A high end graphics card costs $300. You can buy a console for less than that!

The truth is that, Microsoft depends on games. Without games, windows is just a buggy, expensive, insecure OS. So don't use games as an excuse.

Chooco:
yer actually wrong on the game support part, Mac has a lot of game support compared to Linux. all 3 Warcrafts, Starcraft, Diablo2 (and expansion), Imperialism 1 and 2, all the Sim games, most new RPGs and a few FPS games are supported on Mac. put your diablo 1 or 2 disk in a mac and it will install, put the same disk in a PC and it will install.

i'm just very concerned with the cost of a mac, to make a PC i want it would cost me $1500 CDN which includes a GeForce4 Ti4600 or something like that but to make a Mac i want, it would cost me $2000 MINIMUM and the graphics card would only be a GeForce4 MX..... the MX series have MAJOR bottleneck problems, they process fast but the bottleneck is in the bus of the card i believe. in a tomshardware benchmark, the GeForce2 MX200 was about as fast as the TNT2 which was like a year earlier and much cheaper in price.

i really want a mac but there's so much crap that comes with it i don't even want. i already have a CD burner, if i wanted to burn CDs i would FTP files over to my Windows computer then burn it there. i don't want a DVD player on my computer, i'll get a normal DVD player for my TV once the price goes down a bit more. to bump up the speed of the processor in the computer, i'd have to buy a computer which includes a DVD writer, although a DVD writer would be cool, they are very costly at the moment.

Chooco:
you can't honestly say that gaming on computers is stupid. there is no way in hell you could play Wolfenstein, Half-Life or Unreal Tournament on a PS2 or an X-Box. who the hell would run the servers??? NOBODY???? how the hell would you be able to move properly???? Half-Life requires at LEAST 40 keys just to play the damn thing. a,s,d,w  are to move, q is special, z is medic, x is drop ammo, c is drop flag, e is use, r is reload, t is spray logo, y is talk, u is team talk, i is flag info, o is detonate dispenser, enter is for the command menu, shift is the speed modifier (walk), numbers 1-5 are weapons, F5 is screenshot
show me a console that has that many buttons

for consoles, you can't play games more than 4 years old virtualy because ther's nothing to play them on! if your Nintendo from 1990 broke then how the hell do you play all your games??? YOU CAN'T so basically you got screwed out of $80 per game which you can't even play anymore. i still play the game for my 80386 named Eye Of The Beholder but i play it on Windows and there's no problems with incompatibility but lets see you play Nintendo games on your Sony Playstation, you can't, you can't even play them on your Game Cube even though it's the same company.
if you wanted 100% game compatibility with all other people in the console world you would have to spend $900 in consoles because you would need a Game Cube, PS2 and XBox yet a brand new computer costs $1000 and it can also run a website, game servers, balance your cheque book and surf the internet which your game console can't.

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