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Poll Question: Just wondering the ratio of users here, which do you use the most?
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Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:



I actually have Solaris 10, Linux, And XP Pro installed on my secondary PC.
Not OSX though.

This post was written on Solaris 10 running on an x86 box. I also have a 64bit dual core PC with RAID 1+0 that I use for DTP and other Windows software that I have. I do have a soft spot for Solaris though.
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Originally posted by illuminate illuminate wrote:

Slightly OT but why don't MACs have a VGA port? (I dread trying to set up video projectors for MAC users, as I need about 6 different adapters, just in case.)


Because VGA is a horrible, outdated connection? What's wrong with DVI?
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I have a super computer with 8 nodes, each with a dual-core 2.2GHz
AMD OpteronTM processor and 8GB RAM which I access from home using linux in a separate window on XP to simulate the movement of atoms inside a tiny bit of silicon.


and it's really boring
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Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:


My PC Hasn't crashed in 2x years, I have never caught a Virus/Worm, and there is software out there for everything I need to do.  My local computer fair is 15mins away, and with hardware/software prices shockingly low, I have to keep away from there now, except to buy Kaspersky INS  3 user every year for £20. Embarrassed
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EDIT:Keep meaning to upgrade my cpu to Core2Duo for about £50, but flipping Sky keep putting on episodes of SG on Saturdays, which means I can't go out till the evening. LOL

4300+ core2duos are only ~£30 second hand and alot will do 3ghz+ on stock voltage an cooling.
A mac can't touch that for value
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Originally posted by iand4403 iand4403 wrote:

Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:

My PC Hasn't crashed in 2x years, I have never caught a Virus/Worm, and there is software out there for everything I need to do.  My local computer fair is 15mins away, and with hardware/software prices shockingly low, I have to keep away from there now, except to buy Kaspersky INS  3 user every year for £20. Embarrassed

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Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:

EDIT:Keep meaning to upgrade my cpu to Core2Duo for about £50, but flipping Sky keep putting on episodes of SG on Saturdays, which means I can't go out till the evening. LOL

4300+ core2duos are only ~£30 second hand and alot will do 3ghz+ on stock voltage an cooling.

A mac can't touch that for value


But Macs aren't exactly targeted at the 'buy second hand components, build it yourself' market are they?
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I use a mac as my main machine because I have done so since ever (well, it was Nextstep for a very short amount of time as well, haha). The choice then was really whatever the free computer I got had on. I suspect that's the same for most people with windows. When I did my short course on computer science (totally outdated very shortly) there were some colleagues present who still knew how to use these bad boys: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&um=1&sa=1&q=porta+punch+ibm&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq= (that's what you get for going on an IBM sponsored course).

I am a tad annoyed by Apple 'selling out' as said by Mr 'nickyburnell', but I haven't kept up to date with nowadays' instruments of math destruction (oh, the gags)...awfully far behind.
Away on extended leave.
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Originally posted by iand4403 iand4403 wrote:

4300+ core2duos are only ~£30 second hand and alot will do 3ghz+ on stock voltage an cooling.
A mac can't touch that for value


Was hoping for one the E6xxx series, with 2-4mb Cache.

And of course, the virtualisation functionality. Embarrassed

My mem speed is only PC-6400 (DDR2-800), so no point getting the 1333 Mhz brigade (I dont think).

I love my stability, so wont be overclocking.



Edited by levyte357 - 21 May 2009 at 4:10pm
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Agree, it's so boring. I, Like Lev still have a Pentium D daul coreon the main PC, 3.4 one, needs to be core duo, if only for the electricity bill but I just cannot be bothered. It works so sod it. I havn't even loaded my Windows Seven release candidate yet, and it's my living! Must motivate. Spent most of today trying to figure out a deceased mans network in a very large dentist, zzzzzzz
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Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:

Originally posted by iand4403 iand4403 wrote:

4300+ core2duos are only ~£30 second hand and alot will do 3ghz+ on stock voltage an cooling.
A mac can't touch that for value


Was hoping for one the E6xxx series, with 2-4mb Cache.

And of course, the virtualisation functionality. Embarrassed

My mem speed is only PC-6400 (DDR2-800), so no point getting the 1333 Mhz brigade (I dont think).

I love my stability, so wont be overclocking.

 
An unstable overclocked pc is a badly overclocked pc :P
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Originally posted by iand4403 iand4403 wrote:

Originally posted by levyte357 levyte357 wrote:



Was hoping for one the E6xxx series, with 2-4mb Cache.

And of course, the virtualisation functionality. Embarrassed

My mem speed is only PC-6400 (DDR2-800), so no point getting the 1333 Mhz brigade (I dont think).

I love my stability, so wont be overclocking.

 
An unstable overclocked pc is a badly overclocked pc :P


With Hardware prices the way they are, I just dont see the point now.

I dont have time to tune every little Bios param to get the system stable. If I need more speed, I'll double memory, get faster/more hard disk or faster cpu with lots of cache.
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Bought a e5300 chip the other day, 2.6GHz stock, now running at 3.6GHz, passed 12hr Linpack stress test, so perfectly stable, pretty fast too!

Got a large heatsink tho, so I can have slow running fans, nothing worse than a noisy computer!


Edited by MikeHunt79 - 22 May 2009 at 1:22pm
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you'd hate my "daily driver" then heh. it sounds like a hair dryer.
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