What he said. Sometimes I wished I had the cash to get the Radeon HD 5770 because that card is excellent for the screen resolution that I play at. However, I'm keeping my eye on the Radeon HD 6000 series for a potential upgrade hopefully next year. That or I might hold out until the HD 7000 series if I don't got the cash to upgrade by Q3 2011. deltatux
A pointless statement, there is nothing to calm down about, especially when I always am calm to begin with. I gave him accurate information. The panel and CPU are good, the rest of the parts are unknown or are crap and the motherboard certainly won't allow him access to the options one would want from a system. That alone throws half the performance of an i7 out the window. What a waste of a high resolution 27" IPS panel. What's even funnier is that he wants to install Windows on it. :wanker: i7 870: $310 4x2GB DDR3-1333: Who knows, the lowest speed RAM I see for sale is DDR3-1600, 8GB of that for $160. Radeon HD 5750: $110 1TB HDD: $58 A PoS LGA1156 mobo: $80 Total: $718 That leaves almost $1.7K for the other parts, I hope some crappy peripherals and a monitor are worth $1700 to Apple fans. It's much worse if we take taxes into account of course. It's an iMac, it's not like it comes in an elaborate case that was hand crafted with designer art... the monitor is the case, what a waste of a good panel. The biggest difference is that those parts which I listed that differ are actually upgrades, better than what Apple is selling. I should mention that a 27" IPS panel of that type costs about $1K, as far as I know that's how much Apple sells separate 2560x1440 27" IPS monitors for. That means they're charging almost $700 for a keyboard, a mouse, whatever OS it comes with and warranty if they give any without charging more.
yeah, its a hdtv so its 1080p. but as its an IPS panel, it generally looks sharper than 1080p on the tft panels ive seen. it makes for quite an immersive gaming experience when youve got it hooked up to a panasonic 1250w home theatre system too. but yeah, it only cost me $990AU as it was last year's model, so i would assume it would be around the $600-700US price range. it may not run the same high res as apple, but its an awesome bargain.
The slight flaw in the above, yet humorous article, is that even though some parts like the ram can be had cheaper, they do use quality ram of specific standards. All Appl is, is a set of standards, like its Apps. Their control keeps people from screwing it up!! Like a console, plug, play and it just freaking works all in slim, sleek all in one configurations. Typically those are among the reasons some want an Apple of anything, their good at using modern technology in sleek interfaces that just works. In PC land, its anything that some China sweatshop can come up with, both hardware and software...Control is not for everyone, thats probably why most don't use Linux and its apps, too much manual control. Seriously, the mass cannot and should not operate anything they have full control over, thats why so many of us have to fix everyones Windows installs or replace hardware cause some dumbtard purchased a $12 PSU and a $1000 CPU and then installed any old App that some 12 yr old coder created in basic and its removal screws up a deep registry setting and....aaahhhhh. Nah, get Linux and game on Cedega . but in all seriousness, if you need a gaming rig, unfortunately its Windows and some good hardware.
Funny, because all of Apple's hardware is made in china by Foxconn the biggest sweatshop of all! With a really high suicide rate
It's hard to find any PC hardware where there arent any parts made by Foxconn. Apple monitors afaik are quality, a bit pricey, but if you want to buy as good monitor, it's going to cost about as much, talking about high-end Eizo or Dell monitors here. Linux and Cedega... It's a ****ing bad joke. Most of the games wont work with it and you need to pay for it.
Recently I purchased a 21.5" iMac which had an ATi HD 5670 512MB. While running Windows 7 I tested a couple games (CS: Source and DoD: Source) at 1920x1080 4XAA 16XAF with high settings, they averaged 80FPS while walking around with little action going on. In heavy combat or just when a smoke grenade is thrown the FPS would drop to 40 and become slow/unplayable. Things I didn't like. 1) Monitor: The glass screen attracts too much glare with the room light on. 2) Hard Drive: It makes an annoying clicking noise most the time. 3) Speakers: No bass at all, anything above 60% sounds horrible, mixer options didn't help much. 4) Wireless Keyboard: Its essentially a laptop keyboard and it's awkward to type on. 5) Mac OS X: It feels like a dumbed-down version of Windows (in a bad way) and all the programs are useless. After learning all the functions in MAC OSX and mastering all the programs that came included (which took a couple days) I got rid of it. So do yourself a favor and build a high-end gaming PC and forget Apple, it's all just a bunch of hype brought on by morons that don't know how to use a computer.
Oh you mean a suicide rate that is half of China's background suicide rate, is that what you mean? So how do they do it you think, they chain them to their posts and don't let them leave? What's that...? They're free to quit their job at any time...? So you're saying the problem has much more to do with Chinese culture than anything Foxconn is doing..? Huh.
i7 930 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115225&cm_re=i7_930-_-19-115-225-_-Product P6T deluxe rev 2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...31365&cm_re=p6t_deluxe-_-13-131-365-_-Product 6GB ddr3 2000mhz g.skill http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231306 CM 690 II advanced http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119216&Tpk=cm 690 ii advanced crosair 1000HX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139007&Tpk=1000hx 2x samsung f3 1TB raid 0 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185&Tpk=f3 1tb LG 24x DVD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136177&cm_re=24x_lg-_-27-136-177-_-Product ninja 3 cpu cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185147&cm_re=ninja_3-_-35-185-147-_-Product GTX 470 (x2) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121372&cm_re=gtx_470-_-14-121-372-_-Product viewsonic 1MS 1920x1080 27" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116441 total: 2058 with a very nice 27" screen.
You mean to say that iPhoto, a program which comes free with new Macs and is essentially a photo library program with a few editing features thrown in isn't as good as photoshop, a piece of software available for both Mac and PC costing $999 USD? And you use this as an argument against Apple :bang: What you should really be comparing is iPhoto and MSPaint...
Mhhh well as a gamer i would never buy a mac, and specially not for that much money. And a big panel for well youp0rn??? I would use that much dollars for make my own custom game pc or just buy something prebuild/custom like alienware/dell.
