2 Roads - iMac Commercial

[mickyd110011]

the limited time snow casing was $2000 back then. no joke!

[alexxzz2008]

Hell yeah, I'm on my way to buy one of those! 40GB, 512 MB Ram, 400 MHZ. Got one real nice PC, but i want to try mac, and I find the price of 950 Pesos, about 85 USD fair enough :D

[Happycat287]

Sure, it was cheaper.

And faster.

And cooler-looking.

But you know what it couldn't do?

Right click.

[Mematman15]

Less expensive? What do you mean, less expensive?

[RawrnessRawr10]

say hello to my middle finger imac. xD

[spacehelmetforacow]

"...and then i went to the other road, while PCs got case modding."

apple: selling overpriced crap to dumb fanboys and hipsters has never been so easy!

[Blackandwhite4215]

@spacehelmetforacow macs are just good im not a fanboy and im definatly not a hipster so u just stuffed urself

[doritostheking]

@spacehelmetforacow So you admit you're one of those dumbasses with blue leds everywhere and a stupid looking case? nice.

[spacehelmetforacow]

@doritostheking I'd hardly call a Fractal Design Arctic White R2 case modded to handle a big watercooling system a "stupid looking case with blue LEDs everywhere". If anything, Fractal Design's cases are *more* minimalist then apple's PCs.

Case Modding isn't all about looks. Looks certainly enter into it with a lot of people, but many people do mods that don't change the outside, instead making the case fit bigger parts, or become more upgradeable.

[doritostheking]

@spacehelmetforacow Well then what was the point in making a comment about case modding then?

Shouldn't your post have been "...and then i went to the other road, while PC users bought power tools so they could fit parts properly." ?

[spacehelmetforacow]

@doritostheking Case modding is a general term form doing ANYTHING to a case that makes it different from a standard one.

Making bigger parts fit is just as much "case modding" and puting in a window and blue LEDs, or replacing the guts of an old VCR with an HTPC.

It's a broad, and assuming that it only means adding a window and obnoxious glowing shit is stupid.

[doritostheking]

@spacehelmetforacow It's also really dumb that you bought a £100 case that requires modification to fit your parts, but think you can call apple on overpricing. I mean, damn son, here be dragons. Except not dragons, but cognitive dissonance.

[spacehelmetforacow]

@doritostheking By the time I got parts that needed more space, I'd already had the case for a year and was kind of attached to it. It's not like it took much effort to make stuff fit. I just had to remove 2 of the 8(!) hard drive bays included with the normal case.

Besides, I've always preferred upgrading and replacing stuff over Apple's "something broke? Buy an entire new gadget!" philosophy. It strikes me as wasteful, both environmentally and financially.

[doritostheking]

@spacehelmetforacow That's not apple's philosophy, but that of western culture at large. Plenty of people out there buy $300 dell shitboxes and throw them out every three years or "when it gets slow" i.e when they've fucked it up with viruses and don't know it can be fixed.

On the flipside to this, I have a couple of G3 macs that have had minimal work to keep them going. Ram and hard disk upgrades. I'd be willing to do more work when they need it.

[spacehelmetforacow]

@doritostheking yes, but at least the Dells technically have the *option* of opening them up and changing things out.

most of apple's current stuff is either glued shut, or screwed in using weird screw standards few other companies use (a definite change from the Apple II, which was so obviously intended to be upgraded it didn't even have screws on the motherboard cover; it just rested on to of the case.)

[doritostheking]

@spacehelmetforacow An option nobody uses, I'm afraid. That's if they aren't on a laptop.

Apple don't build computers for the DIY type any more. They're going for lowest common denominator, the kind of people who don't use expansion slots. That's why I've gone the hackintosh route.

[vajksziget7a]

@doritostheking buy a mac pro!

[doritostheking]

@vajksziget7a Yeah I'm going to blow £2000 on a xeon workstation to do a bit of photoshop and play TF2. Eat a dick.

[vajksziget7a]

@doritostheking It's nehalem xeon (Very soon sandy bridge). You know that the macs have a HUGE software and game library? I think i'll pay the premium price for the softwares like: FCP,Soundtrack pro,imovie,garageband,idvd,Iwo­rk,iweb,motion,cinema tools,iphoto, Etc.

It also has a huge game library: Don't belive me? Jut search on google: Mac games wikipedia. and click on the first link. Big enough? Also they are far more better designed then most of the PCs out there.

[doritostheking]

@vajksziget7a Oh christ, you're one of THOSE mac fans. Look idiot, I'm running a paid for copy of OSX. Apple don't sell a computer that fits my needs and budget, so I'm not going to buy hardware from them. I've bought their operating system, I've bought their office software, and I use it every day on my £400 Pentium dual core tower. I need a machine with lots of drives, and £2000 for a machine with only four 3.5 inch bays is horseshit.

[Bluedino549]

@vajksziget7a And then, someone got up with a package which costs less: a hackintosh! Except for OSX (It's not vanilla), every software you can run there is legal. Heh, Mac Pro, yeah, even a mac mini should be sufficient for most things. And the design... well... the design was good. Now its simple. Too simple for me. I want the iMac G4's design back, for example. But the new Mac Mini's one is nice. And the Mac Pro... Well, also the PowerMac G4's design looked better to me. :D

[vajksziget7a]

@Bluedino549 Yes for most things the mac minis is good... But then comes the final cut pro X render time, photoshop render time and all of those things.Those are the programs where you NEED a lot of processors and ram.And the Mac Pro has that.The mac pro is not made for the average user.It's a workstation not a desktop.As for the design i think the mac pros are beautiful machines.If you look at them they are very simple.But also complicated.

[Bluedino549]

@vajksziget7a Well, okay, FCP X IS a bit of a problem on a Mac Mini. Photoshop runs quite well. But I am rather the one messing with music. Garageband and Logic Pro Studio. A Mac Mini is okay for that but i tend to use my MBP as it has many avantages to the Mac Mini. The mac Pro is a well-looking Computer but I likes the PowerMac G4's design more.

The only thing that really annoys me on macs is, that Apple seems to have forgotten their old motto for them: "It does more, it costs LESS".

[mcurran456]

its funny cos now mac is more expensive

[OhJeiArh]

@mcurran456 Yeah, and not at all colorful! XD

[luigi90900]

@mcurran456 No there not. Check.

[txprodigy95]

@mcurran456 actually it still cost around 1200 but at the time a higher end hp desktop cost around 1500. so it was "cheaper" and for the amount of quality they put into it, it was.

[bobbybob3680]

less expensive, oh yeh right

[gangsterhood21]

love dus commercial