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Originally posted by Kiwi-Todd
ohhhhhh....the painnnnnn!

What a total muppet!

I must admit though that this is the most entertainment I had on these forums for months (since the 'see you apple - I'm done here' guy).

Just the thought of those beautifully engineered and shiny G5 innards being disembowelled and (probably) sitting in a dumpster makes me wanna puke!

I am saving my butt off for a DP G5 for work - this just hurts.
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ya the but the "see you apple" guy didn't tear the thing apart ... and he ended up buying a G4 powerbook anyway
 
Originally posted by peaks
If I want to buy a $3k computer and make a planter out of it, what business is it of anyone elses?
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Of COURSE he has the right to do that. But taken a step further, what if he bought a mansion, tore it down, and put up a trailer? He could keep the mansion, buy some property, and have both. There are some things that simply defy common sense, and whats indicated in folks that do those kinds of things is a disconnect from normal cognition or maybe even some horrible brain malfunction. My guess is that he's young, spoiled, and acts on impulse due to an overabundance of testosterone. Whatever the reason, this guy can't go through his life like that. I'll pray to my god for him.
 
The 9th circle of hell is for betrayers. I move that they add a 10th specifically for this imbecile. May he writhe in agony there for the rest of eternity.
 
Poor guy

My guess is that he's young, spoiled, and acts on impulse due to an overabundance of testosterone. Whatever the reason, this guy can't go through his life like that. I'll pray to my god for him. [/B][/QUOTE]

I agree, the guys balls have probably not dropped yet, and he is still at the self-involved stage. Hopefully his parents will provide guidance at some point....
Is it after meeting women that the whole led glowing thing starts looking pretty lame?
 
Originally posted by StrangeQuark
The 9th circle of hell is for betrayers. I move that they add a 10th specifically for this imbecile. May he writhe in agony there for the rest of eternity.
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They already did...
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CITY OF DIS, NETHER HELL--After nearly four years of construction at an estimated cost of 750 million souls, Corpadverticus, the new 10th circle of Hell, finally opened its doors Monday. [more]
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Looking at the "before" and "after" pics, I am starting to think this is a hoax. The picture quality in the first (complete G5) pic is noticably better than the subsequent pics. Open them in Photoshop for comparison, and zoom to 200%: the first pic is very clean and sharp; I think the later pics look more noisy. Also the white balance is slightly different (as if taken by a different camera).

Also, the author has been careful to crop out the background in the first pic- not so the subsequent ones.

Methinks someone got hold of an empty G5 case and thought they'd have a laugh... :eek:
 
Man. I just can't not post about this. At length. And in detail.

It just makes me sick. Not because this idiot kid ruined a G5 specifically, or put a PC in a Mac; but because:

1) He had no regard for a thing of quality and beauty, and butchered it. Even HE says that he's "NEVER seen a finer made case." Did it occur to him that the Mac, OS X, and the included software (MORE than sufficient for his original intended purposes of "Internet, [and] ripping music/DVDs") might be JUST as finely made?

2) He gets this expensive computer as a Christmas present from his parents, and doesn't have the balls to tell them that it's not what he wanted--not even that he can't use it with his existing software. He says, "It’s a good thing my parents don’t know anything about computers, because I’m sure they would be really angry if they knew what I did." Then why didn't he just go to them and say, hey Mom and Dad, thanks, but this won't run my programs, and I was really hoping for a Dell? Instead he goes behind their backs and ruins their gift, while making sure they won't notice. What does that tell you about this kid's relationship with his parents?

3) Some posters are saying this can't be real, but I say it is, because it's perfectly in character for a sophomoric little teen twit who would hack up expensive electronics to suit a spoiled whim to make this remark: "When I showed my friend, who happens to love Apple, he looked sick....I wish I had a picture of that." Anyone that derives pleasure from annoying others like this hasn't grown up yet. What an immature jerk.

4) Not only does he destroy something incredibly well-made and replace it with crap, he obviously doesn't know crap when he sees it: "Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure G5 is a great computer, but I wanted a Dell....I have to say that I'm happy - I can keep on using XP."

All of this isn't just offensive to Mac users. It's symptomatic of the dumbing-down of our culture, of the everyday "good enough" where people used to strive for the best, of the daily triumph of callousness and mediocrity. It's just WRONG on so very many levels completely unrelated to Apple.

If you made it through this thread, much less this post, I salute you. :)
 
yes, this things makes me feel sick everything im reminded of it, and seeing people making this kind of thread every few days again and again is not helping.

i think there are about 5 of these in Macrumors alone.
and i agree completely with your views. it's not that he likes XP, but that he can't recognize something good when he sees it. urgh, makes me sick.
 
Originally posted by steadyeddie
Looking at the "before" and "after" pics, I am starting to think this is a hoax. The picture quality in the first (complete G5) pic is noticably better than the subsequent pics. Open them in Photoshop for comparison, and zoom to 200%: the first pic is very clean and sharp; I think the later pics look more noisy. Also the white balance is slightly different (as if taken by a different camera).

Also, the author has been careful to crop out the background in the first pic- not so the subsequent ones.

Methinks someone got hold of an empty G5 case and thought they'd have a laugh... :eek:
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This was my reaction the instant I read it as well. I think some one is just having some fun with us. If he knows how to put together a computer, he would at least no the value of what he tore out of the G5 tower. Why give it it away to his friend, I am sure that he could have sold just the G5 chips on eBay. There are plenty of people who like to get their hands on one and try to assemble their own Mac Clone! I suspect that some one built something out of a G5 and then had fun with the case.

I am convinced this is a hoax. It is so perfectly written to annoy Mac fans. "I wanted a Dell", "I am so happy I can use XP", etc. To me, it seems like a sick attempt at humor.

Why not just say to his parents, "I don't know how to use a Mac, get me a PC instead." Clearly, if he were real he is spoiled enough that they would have said, "Of course honey, whatever you want."

I read through the forums over on the overclockers page where he posted it. They are not exactly singing his praises in the PC world either. Does any one here read that page regularly, I was trying to figure out how you submit your work for posting. I think that is a hoax, because why would a page about overclocking give directions on how to replace your MB with a vastly inferior one.

But, I do agree with the people who said that the thread is entertaining, a nice break from the "New (insert G5's, PB's, iMac, etc. here) Next Tuesday, I guarantee it" threads that have dominated the boards since MWSF.
 
Originally posted by peaks
What someone does with their own property is their own business...

Why the hate mail and flames? If I want to buy a $3k computer and make a planter out of it, what business is it of anyone elses?
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The operative phrase here is "If I want to buy".

If you buy something, by all means, do what you want to it.

But he didn't buy this Mac. His parents gave it to him as a gift. To destroy an expensive gift (especially from a close relative) immediately after receiving it is simply wrong, from every point of view you care to look at it from. If your parents give you an expensive gift that you can't use, you politely talk to them and see about exchanging it for something else. You don't destroy it.

Unless you hate your parents, of course, which this little twerp obviously does.
 
okay man what do people not understand about there being a PAGE 2 to the entire goddamned thing?!!!! He tells everyone what he did with the G5 parts after he was done with his little stunt. Lucky Mac user, got around $2500 in parts, damn. I wish i was the mac user but hey i cant get everything in life.

Now, for those of you who think this thing is totally a hoax I doubt it. But yes it seems like it was meant to piss off Mac users...because it clearly was labeled (on the overclockers.com homepage) that it was not meant for "macphiles".

Okay, now that everyone's sorta over this can someone tell me why this is on overclockers.com? OVERCLOCKERS!!! freak, what that guy did was not a mac/pc mod, it was NOT overclocking anything (more like underclocking...that crap athlon if it is an athlon is nothing compared to dual g5s)....the only reason it appears to be there is because the author didnt know where else to put it. GODDAMN I STILL WANT TO RIP HIM APART INTO PIECES GRRRRRRRRRR

oh btw, if you read the overclockers forum, someone describes the parts he uses...heres a snippet:
Originally from the oc.com forums
First off, let me just say, in the pic of the board, I don't see an AthlonXP 2200. I see a ceramic substrate which says Tbird or Duron. And I also see an Antec Jetcool HSF, which probably couldn't cool an XP.
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Originally posted by MacBandit
Here's a link to the forum thread at OC talking about the PC's G5.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=266451
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-MacBandit

Thanks for that link. Quite interesting.

Especially that they are just as mad as we are.

One other item of read-between-the lines. I noticed that these folks not only understood what this kid did to the Mac, but respected the G5 as well.

Oh, how far the Switcher campaign has come...
 
Anyone who hasn't yet done so should defintely go read the Overclockers forums on this article.

The more you read the less likely the story seems to be true. There are more inconsistencies than I originally noticed (at one point he wanted a Dell, later he wants an AMD board - I don't know much about Dell but I guess they only use Intel chips) also they have pretty much agreed over there that the board that he put in is not what he claims. The SCSI card he claims to have is missing. Personally, I see only one drive installed (in the optical bay - the SuperDrive has been removed) and he claims to have two 36Gb drives.

Also, a pic showing it running at the end would have been nice, the only thing we ever see powered up is the green light.
I think in the article he knows a little bit too much about computer components to not know what the G5's were worth.
I think somewhere, some one, is laughing at us.
 
Originally posted by patrick0brien
-MacBandit

Thanks for that link. Quite interesting.

Especially that they are just as mad as we are.

One other item of read-between-the lines. I noticed that these folks not only understood what this kid did to the Mac, but respected the G5 as well.

Oh, how far the Switcher campaign has come...
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Coming from the Overclockers forum here;
I've always found once you hit the upper echelons of computer users that the Mac/PC debate tends to get a lot more put in the background. The architectures have their strengths and anyone who doesn't recognize it is ignorant.
But yeah; I have to say this is a pretty stupid thing to do; I'm suspicious its a prank but who knows.
 
Originally posted by Mr Maui
Seems like the following would have been wiser options ...

A. Sell the present Dual G5 to someone who would use it, and then buy a cheaper, older, or used single processor G5 box if all you want is the box ...

He could have made the same piece of carp and had $1000 or more in his pocket.

B. Find an inoperable box and purchase it on the cheap

C. Contact the manufacturer of the case and see if you can buy one (or at least something similar.

I guess the kid's parents have money to burn.

<wonder what would happen if we found out who they were and told them>

:eek: :D :rolleyes:
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amen to that
 
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