[QUOTE=Oso;895126]I always shop www.tigerdirect.com[/QUOTE]
I 2nd that!!! I order so much crap from them I have their credit card. My last order was last week. I picked up a laptop.
I’ve worked extensively with both PC’s and Macs over the past twenty years. Macs are superior in almost every way, although it is true some industry-specific software is not available on them.
PC’s have improved a LOT and are almost as good, but still are not as good - too many glitches, hitches, viruses and quality issues. And an operating system that mimics OSX but is unstable and slow.
That said, My Toshiba laptop running Umbuntu is fantastic, and every bit as good in it’s way as the Mac. The real problem with the PC’s is the challenge MicroSoft has creating an OS that MUST work on a wide variety of machines of varying quality. They have a much harder job of it because the OS is not married to the hardware.
some? come on mas. try “most”.
Mac are nazis when it comes to who they allow to develop for them whereas pc is almost as open source albeit not as fast as linux type set ups.
linux is noce, but it is commandline stuff and who wants to go back to dos?
vista is a forced adoption and most shops that run pcs do so on xp or even win2k pro boxes.
It’s important to not mix “pc” with “microsoft”
mac shops are almost exclusively for people using adobe products or exclusive apple products such as quicktime or pro-tools and for actual business systems, macs are useless.
so if you are into multimedia exclusively, then a mac is ok, but it is NOT superior to a PC in any way shape or form and hasn’t been since the advent of teh pentium processor. If this was 1995, I’d be inclined to somewhat agree with you, but it’s 2008 and for half the price you can get twice the system out of a pc that you’ll ever get from a mac.
I’ve worked extensively with both PC’s and Macs over the past twenty years. Macs are superior in almost every way, although it is true some industry-specific software is not available on them.
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I think you say that because you are in a MAC heavy industry. I have seen plenty of PC based systems that run just fine, with no problems ever, and are fast as can be.
PC’s have improved a LOT and are almost as good, but still are not as good - too many glitches, hitches, viruses and quality issues. And an operating system that mimics OSX but is unstable and slow.
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The last time you had a PC issue (that I know of) was when you were watching a video on “My” Averatec (don’t ever buy one!). If I remember you were complaining that you didn’t like the way the video player scrolled through videos, and commented that PC’s suck, went on about how you don’t understand why it wouldn’t scroll through, why anyone would design a media viewer that didn’t scroll the video the way you like, and if it was a mac you could do what you want.
I kept my mouth shut at that point (because I thought you were just being another brainwashed mac lover), but in reality, the problem was your fault. You could just as easily opened the video in Quick time and had the feature you were complaining about not having. You literally failed to click on the correct icon when you opened the video. You once again proved mac users collectively cannot think, or handle more than one option when presented with several choices.
Bad news for you RD. The 1.8GHz is the fastes of all the 25W mobile processors AMD has made. To go faster you will have to go to 31W or 35W. A replacement for what you have but at a lower power is the best you will be able to get.
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;895098]I am looking for a reliable supplier for an AMD processor for my laptop.
I need part number TMSMT40BQX5LD to go into a socket 754 mother board.
I am using that part number, because it is the lowest power rating/highest temp tolerance due to the fact that my laptop has some inherent cooling issues.
Anyone know a good place to find one? specifically a trust worthy vendor that will over night me one so I am not down for too long?
Thanks!!
RD[/QUOTE]
http://www.google.com/products?q=TMSMT40BQX5LD+&btnG=Search+Products&hl=en
[QUOTE=CLFLPstudent;895145]Why? So in a few weeks/months you can post a question about another virus your windows box got? Go here instead!
lol
-David[/QUOTE]
I work in IT, networking and security specifically. MACs can get viruses, they can be hacked easier that Vista, and Malware has already popped up in the last year for them specifically.
EDIT: Here’s a link to the hack…
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/62378.html
"The MacBook Air went down within minutes while the Fujitsu running Windows Vista survived into the last day before succumbing.
Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators compromised the MacBook Air by sending it to a Web site on which they had installed an exploit that took advantage of a new zero-day vulnerability in the Safari Web browser."
Hijack!!!
instead of starting another computer thread:
i’m shopping for a laptop. my desktop is 5 years old and i keep getting a crash and getting told (by MS) that I need to upgrade my bios…well, the newest BIOS for my MB is 2003…, which I already had. it’s getting to the point that it’s doing it multiple times a week.
so…first question:
Vista: 32 or 64 bit?
[QUOTE=brothernumber9;895409]Bad news for you RD. The 1.8GHz is the fastes of all the 25W mobile processors AMD has made. To go faster you will have to go to 31W or 35W. A replacement for what you have but at a lower power is the best you will be able to get.[/QUOTE]
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The TMSMT40BQX5LD or Turion MT 40 is 2.2 ghz @25W. There are some still out there. They are just really pricey.
In other news, I removed my CPU, re coated it with the best thermal grease I could find, drilled 4 new holes in the bottom of the case and so far I have had it going all day with all my programs running, including 2 fire fox windows one with 7 tabs open, and the other 22 tabs open, and it has not crashed yet!!
I am hoping maybe this is the fix for now. I will try had find a TMSMT40BQX5LD Turion MT 40 if I ever have any extra money laying around.
After speaking to my friend I decided to try the Zalmen Thermo grease in the hopes that a large part of the problem was in the heat transfer to the heat sink. The Zalmen has a much higher transfer rate than the cheap stuff from the factory assembly.
The 4 holes drilled in the bottom force air over the other side of the heat sink instead of just one side, so I think that made a big difference too.
OSO, go with the 64, remove Vista and load in windows XP.
Ah, the ignorance of the PC user. .WMV movies do not open in quicktime. They just don’t. You might imagine that they do, like you imagine the PC stands up to the Mac, but it does not make it so. Just like on the open floor, I know what I’m doing bucky.
Sorry, I threw the Kool Aid out a long time ago… had the whole department of PC’s AND the whole department of Macs - I’ll take the Macs any day - little to no downtime or problems … versus constant troubles.
And David - my linux OS is a 3-D graphical OS built in Umbuntu - it knocks the socks off of most OS’s out there - although it has some limitations because 1 guy wrote it versus a team. No DOS here.
[QUOTE=Mas Judt;895461]Ah, the ignorance of the PC user. … I know what I’m doing bucky..[/QUOTE]
If you research Apple’s security history you’ll find that they have dropped the ball even more than microsoft has. They don’t get the press MS does, but they drop the ball just as badly. The initial hacking of the iphone brought this out to allot of people with your mindset, though people with your mindset usually tend to ignore the logic of people who study/work these issues for a living.
[QUOTE=Mas Judt;895461]And David - my linux OS is a 3-D graphical OS built in Umbuntu - it knocks the socks off of most OS’s out there - although it has some limitations because 1 guy wrote it versus a team. No DOS here.[/QUOTE]
And “UMBUNTU”??? I think you mean UBUNTU, and it isn’t “written” by one person. Might want to do some research on that…And “knocks the socks off”?? I’ve been running ubuntu for a couple years. I even run it at work for specialized boxes, but red hat/fedora does have it beat on a few uses, though I vastly prefer ubuntu due to it’s debian roots.
Ah, the ignorance of the PC user. .WMV movies do not open in quicktime. They just don’t. You might imagine that they do, like you imagine the PC stands up to the Mac, but it does not make it so. Just like on the open floor, I know what I’m doing bucky.
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LOL!! Ok, you got me there!!!
How do you watch .WMV’s on a Mac then?
[QUOTE=RD’S Alias - 1A;895468]Ah, the ignorance of the PC user. .WMV movies do not open in quicktime. They just don’t. You might imagine that they do, like you imagine the PC stands up to the Mac, but it does not make it so. Just like on the open floor, I know what I’m doing bucky.
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LOL!! Ok, you got me there!!!
How do you watch .WMV’s on a Mac then?[/QUOTE]
VLC would probably play them. If it doesn’t, you could use QuickTime and Flip4Mac
[QUOTE=naja;895471]VLC would probably play them. If it doesn’t, you could use QuickTime and Flip4Mac[/QUOTE]
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Didn’t he just say quicktime WON’T play them?
I just tried it. Quicktime wouldn’t work for a .WMV file. It just gave me a blank screen.
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Didn’t he just say quicktime WON’T play them?
I just tried it. Quicktime wouldn’t work for a .WMV file. It just gave me a blank screen.[/QUOTE]
You tried quicktime or quicktime + flip4mac like I said?
Just Quicktime
I don’t see an option to run Flip4mac on the PC though.
yeah, flip4mac will run .wmv files
I never said that Mac’s couldn’t get viruses, and there are AV software options for the mac.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/151971/mac_security_focus_antivirus.html here a recent article tells of a supposedly nasty virus that someone wrote to affect OS X users in 2006, but to date 49 mac’s have been affected.
They credit the small market share. So guess what? Please don’t buy macs!
-David
And “UMBUNTU”??? I think you mean UBUNTU, and it isn’t “written” by one person. Might want to do some research on that…And “knocks the socks off”?? I’ve been running ubuntu for a couple years. I even run it at work for specialized boxes, but red hat/fedora does have it beat on a few uses, though I vastly prefer ubuntu due to it’s debian roots.
This is a great example of why I find the martial arts boards so funny, people say stuff that is correct from thier point of view, but is totally f@cking stupid. My Ubuntu based OS is built in Ubuntu - but contains proprietary software creating the OS I described. Something you would get if read the description of the OS - as Ubuntu don’t do that stuff by itself.
RD - you can view .wmv movies the following ways on a Mac:
With .wmv player - sucks you can’t scroll
with flipformac converting it for view on Quicktime (not loaded on the machine we were using.) - still does not run as good as quicktime.
,wmv files are ****ty.
As far as Apple having goofs - good lord yes, but NOTHING on the scale of MicroSofts goofs and fundamental challenges of having to be all things to all people. All of my criticisms of the PC platform are based on practically 20 years of managing groups of people on both platforms. Mac vs. PC? No comparison. Mac wins hands down - if you want to do something besides fix PC’s.
Im always down with a mac vs pc argument.
mas, you are talking out your ass like a dope smoking sandal wearing red eyed mac user. lol 
macs haven’t had any thing over a pc for 10 years and people still cling to that fairy tail about macs. Nonsense, they are limited and you can only use software that mac wants you to use. You can’t have access to over 90% of what’s out there for use.
total crap is what a mac is. It’s a very expensive digital photo editing, family movie making, music making internet surfing email machine and that’s it.
I think there might be a couple of games you can play on one and no business compatible software you can run really. I mean, no one can take mac format files seriously and everything must be converted for pc or back to mac and don’t even get started about how crappy they are to integrate into a network. You need so many pairs of gloves on and in between crap that it actually can compromise a network to have stupid mac boxes sitting on them.
Pain in the ass. a royal pain in teh ass.
ultimately, bottom line on Macs. they have a dismal market share because most everyone that knows anything about IT or comupting in general would never recommend mac to be implemented into business systems outside of arthouse project labs. period. lol
btw, when i said “dos” i was referring to command line operations" which are similar to how dos functions and are always part of linux systems OS or otherwise in some shape or form which is why linux is used as server side stuff mainly.
Most web servers are linux setups, mostly because it’s free, but also because it’s fast and its stable and it plays nice with windows. the same cannot be said for macs. 