Sounds like you have already made up your mind and are just hoping for someone to talk you out of it.
Not really, I don't think I will do it. Just wondering if anyone else ever felt that way. Little new for me as a switcher.
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Not really, I don't think I will do it. Just wondering if anyone else ever felt that way. Little new for me as a switcher.
Please point out the mistakes that made you think english is my second language?
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Yes, I am English as a Second Language.
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Good for you but after you will have built your custom computer, it will be just like a mac ... without macosx.
I did this back in October and built a great gaming PC that still works great today. However, I ended up buying a MBP and I use that most of the time now. I actually have my PC listed on craigslist for the Indianapolis area now for $700. it was a lot of fun to build but, in the end, OSX came calling and I answered
I built my own PC, which I upgrade all the time, but I also bought an iMac. Guess which one I use more. Buy some PC parts on the cheap, and upgrade as you can. Buy OEM software to save money. Sell the left over parts on eBay. If you must sell your Mac, you might want to put aside some for when Leopard comes out. They will probably be a better MB out by then.
This is something that bugs me sometimes too.
I think you should sell the Macbook, save the money for a Mac Pro, gut it, reassemble it, and then you'll feel better again
I think you should sell the Macbook, save the money for a Mac Pro, gut it, reassemble it, and then you'll feel better again
Hi there,
I totally get your situation.
I am an or (was) an avid gamer and hence u can see from my sig that I built a custom rig 2 years ago (Athlon X2 4800 Geforce 7900GTSLId with 2 x Raptor 10,000RPM and blue light fans, Zalman fans etc etc the list goes on...)
It is undoubtedly very fun to build a freakin fast machine and test out the benchmarks but this is inevitably a very expensive hobby and I have given up and bought the MBP and try to spend the time playing games on some other things like composing music on my mbp or something.
OSX is seriously a nice platform and even if it doesnt handle games as well as windoze custom pcs, there are so many other things to do so try to forget about the urge to build a machine.
Look at how slick the mac is. A custom machine can look cool but macs just look slick. Nothing extra, just pure simplicity.
Macs are the way forward.
I totally get your situation.
I am an or (was) an avid gamer and hence u can see from my sig that I built a custom rig 2 years ago (Athlon X2 4800 Geforce 7900GTSLId with 2 x Raptor 10,000RPM and blue light fans, Zalman fans etc etc the list goes on...)
It is undoubtedly very fun to build a freakin fast machine and test out the benchmarks but this is inevitably a very expensive hobby and I have given up and bought the MBP and try to spend the time playing games on some other things like composing music on my mbp or something.
OSX is seriously a nice platform and even if it doesnt handle games as well as windoze custom pcs, there are so many other things to do so try to forget about the urge to build a machine.
Look at how slick the mac is. A custom machine can look cool but macs just look slick. Nothing extra, just pure simplicity.
Macs are the way forward.
I don't game and benchmarks aren't the issue. I enjoy building computers.
I can do photoshop and just about everything else on a PC. Yes Macs are slick and I love Mac OS X, but I enjoy playing with the hardware as much as I enjoy making things.
I can do photoshop and just about everything else on a PC. Yes Macs are slick and I love Mac OS X, but I enjoy playing with the hardware as much as I enjoy making things.
i wouldn't sell my mac for anything. the day i don't have a mac is when i don't need to compute.
that said...
-check out osx86 project and see what kind of pc can be built up with non mac parts? --can i mention osx86 here?
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that said...
-check out osx86 project and see what kind of pc can be built up with non mac parts? --can i mention osx86 here?
r.