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What? No new Macs coming out next month?
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God bless Leet Translator, now I can understand the hardcore in-game chat...
You come off pretty strong too, mate.
Fact of the matter is: You both are right to a degree. To get to the core problem of many troubled children, you often just need to look at their parents. Parents are too busy these days to spend time with their kids leading by example and leave it up to the computers, televisions and teachers. However, heavy gaming and computer/television usage is horrible for frontal lobe development on young children and has a correlation with ADHD development. I am 22 and went through my teenage years recently enough that I remember the effects of my video game playing on my mental health. I would be extremely brusque and often violent to my family when my game hours increased. I would even dream about the games while I was asleep and I really didn't play that much. A few hours every few days at the most. I have seen games do the same things to other people and allow their addictive tendencies to ruin their academics. My senior year at university I was in 2 separate groups with hardcore WoW gamers and both failed their classes because they couldn't keep up with both their academics and WoW at the same time.
I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a child and never have had a console. I built my first computer 9 years ago and started gaming a bit then, but was fairly regulated by my parents. I really do appreciate the effort my parents took in my development, because I can see a difference in my work and study habits from those of my TV-watching, heavy-game-playing peers.
I guess that ended up being a bit of a rant.
Maybe sound a bit hypocritical (it is Sunday, though), but I kinda want to go play Half Life 2 and enter the cheat where the shotgun has like 600 shots per shell. Now that is fun.
January Release of 2.0 Macbook?
I heard through a reliable source that there might be a January release of the 2.0 Macbook with lower prices and a few upgrades. Can anyone substantiate this, because I'm debating on whether I should wait to buy until then or get one before Christmas. Also, has anyone else had any problems with the overheating or the "Random Shutdown Syndrome?" Thanks in advance for any information!
Aaron
I heard through a reliable source that there might be a January release of the 2.0 Macbook with lower prices and a few upgrades. Can anyone substantiate this, because I'm debating on whether I should wait to buy until then or get one before Christmas. Also, has anyone else had any problems with the overheating or the "Random Shutdown Syndrome?" Thanks in advance for any information!
Aaron
Macbook is already on Rev B. It was just revved on Nov 8.
And unless your reliable source is Steve Jobs, I wouldn't bet on it.
You come off pretty strong too, mate.
Fact of the matter is: You both are right to a degree. To get to the core problem of many troubled children, you often just need to look at their parents. Parents are too busy these days to spend time with their kids leading by example and leave it up to the computers, televisions and teachers. However, heavy gaming and computer/television usage is horrible for frontal lobe development on young children and has a correlation with ADHD development. I am 22 and went through my teenage years recently enough that I remember the effects of my video game playing on my mental health. I would be extremely brusque and often violent to my family when my game hours increased. I would even dream about the games while I was asleep and I really didn't play that much. A few hours every few days at the most. I have seen games do the same things to other people and allow their addictive tendencies to ruin their academics. My senior year at university I was in 2 separate groups with hardcore WoW gamers and both failed their classes because they couldn't keep up with both their academics and WoW at the same time.
I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a child and never have had a console. I built my first computer 9 years ago and started gaming a bit then, but was fairly regulated by my parents. I really do appreciate the effort my parents took in my development, because I can see a difference in my work and study habits from those of my TV-watching, heavy-game-playing peers.
I guess that ended up being a bit of a rant.
Maybe sound a bit hypocritical (it is Sunday, though), but I kinda want to go play Half Life 2 and enter the cheat where the shotgun has like 600 shots per shell. Now that is fun.
I agree with you to some extent.
Of course it is always subjective how much you let a game influence you. For me computer games always were a way to get rid of my aggression, not to increase it. I got my first computer, an Amiga 500, when I was 6 years old and enjoyed computer games since then. But I was a grade A/B student at school and always managed to finish my projects in time at the graphic design college I did afterwards. I think it has to do with a certain level of "self discipline" my parents taught me. As a child, my father often played with me on the Amiga, car racing against each other and also some fighting and shooting stuff.
Later at school I would only play games if I had finished my homework & studying. So first my parents and then my common sense always told me, do the important things first and then you have free time to do what you want. I don't know how exactly you can teach that, I think it has to do with the fact that my parents spent a lot of time with me as a child.
Imo computer games are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the problems mentioned before.
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And back to the op, I think a system like you mentioned would be a good solution not only for gamers but also for professionals who can't afford/do not need the power of the mac pro but want to have a seperate screen. I would buy that mini tower in a heartbeat, because I do not need 2 Xeons to do vector illustrations in Illustrator. And I have a 21" Eizo monitor that blows the iMacs monitor away in every aspect. Right now I can either pay for power I do not need or a screen I do not need.
Your logic is so way off. That poster was talking about options not quality. Is it that hard to get?