DirtyHarry Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 PC's are great but I used to run some sick games of Oregon Trail on my Apple IIE with the monochrome monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCash Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Macs suck big time. Name one single computer performance measuring product where a Mac is even in the top 100. I can't think of one. Â How about video performance? Let's compare a high tech Dell or Alienware with Quad 7900 GTX SLI versus the fastest thing Apple even offers in their PowerMac G5 (a Quadro FX 4500). Each 7900 GTX card is about 30% more powerful than the Quadro and there are 4 of them. That's 5.2 times the video performance. Â I think I'll stick with a PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Name one single computer performance measuring product where a Mac is even in the top 100. I can't think of one. Â http://www.top500.org/site/2024 Â I would never own a Ferrari, they suck, Lamborginis are so much faster, they have like 400% more horsepower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCash Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Name one single computer performance measuring product where a Mac is even in the top 100. I can't think of one. Â http://www.top500.org/site/2024 Â Good one, ya got me there. The top 19 must be PCs then. Â I would never own a Ferrari, they suck, Lamborginis are so much faster, they have like 400% more horsepower. Â Interesting analogy. Here's another: Car #1 is a PC and can drive 80 miles per hour. Car #2 is a Mac with 5.2 times less ability. It goes 15.4 miles per hour. Which would you rather drive to work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Jon, what about a BMW with 850 Giovanni rims?  Farshad: This is Farshad and I just want to know, are you Persia? Girl: Excuse me?  Farshad: Are you Persia???  Girl: Am I Persia???  Dude1: I guess "are you Persian?" he's asking you  Girl: No I'm not Persian, YOU are.  Dude1: Hey wait wait. Turn your radio up there, what are you playing in the background? What is that?  Farshad: I'm just rolling in my BMW right now man, what do you mean "What is that?"  Dude1: Oh boy, alright good for you.  Dude2: Is that Persian anthem trance?  Farshad: Yeah that's a Persian me when I roll up with the 740 and the 850 Giovanni rims you know. The ladies see the Persian Farshad they're all over it.  Dude1: Oooooh boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Happy 12th Birthday OLY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I'm only 10! At least that is how far I can count before I run out of fingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Use your toes poohead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I just need one more appendage and I'm legal drinking age! Hmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Interesting analogy. Here's another: Car #1 is a PC and can drive 80 miles per hour. Car #2 is a Mac with 5.2 times less ability. It goes 15.4 miles per hour. Which would you rather drive to work? Â If Microsoft made cars... 1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. Â 2. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on. Â 3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too. Â 4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats. Â 5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads. Â 6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower. Â 7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light. Â 8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years. Â 9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb. Â 10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. Â 11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. Â 12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. Â 13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it. Â 14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads. Â 15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff. Â 16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM! Â 17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads! Â 18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it. Â 19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked. Â 20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a road next to each other. Â 21. You would have to hit a Start button to turn off the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whidbey Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Funny shit all around... Windows XP is great and having worked with it for many years can't say anything all that bad about it. I also like the apple stuff. I just can't make sense of it for everyday work stuff. It's price doesn't = it's cost. If I could purchase the duo whatever for the same price as a dell... I'm game. Bring it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figger_Eight Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Funny Microsoft packaging video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olyclimber Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Funny Microsoft packaging video  that is pretty accurate....we need more bullet points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Real computer geeks use Linux. Â Operating system: Linux Kernel version: 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 Machine Type: i686 Apache version: 1.3.34 (Unix) Â Of course, it only runs on a PC though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 "2.6.10-1.770_FC3" Â LOL. Sure you don't need to recomplie again?? Â Gotta love Linux - an entire fad dependent on anti-MS sentiment for 95% of its support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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