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i've only even seen the 15" and haven't gotten to play with it. i can definitely see how the 13" could go wrong.
i'd probably love retina support for coding, since real estate is super-important. i'd hate to spend all that money on a machine that chokes under its own load for basic gfx tasks tho
Couch potato
yeah because people are stupid and will buy obsolete hardware for four figures if it has an apple logo on it
i tried that and apparently it's considered a hate crime around here
thanks, obama
well in paris it will be very crowded with foreigners.
When I went to angers I noted that french brunettes really tend to have a similar hair style. And a similar kind of brown hair.
i don't know why this conversation always has to turn nasty
for whatever reason people are willing to pay more for used macs, they are, which is a nice thing about purchasing a mac
Pigeon pose. Hurts so good, man
I did this too a while back. What's great about the laptop, portability aside, is that it forces you to let go of 700GB file collections and having 8 hard drives. You feel obligated to keep them all backed up but you don't, which creates stress, especially when something dies. A laptop isn't going to run all your games perfectly, so you just tend to install less stuff on it. It isn't always on, so you don't do always on stuff that runs in the background like Folding@Home or file servers or whatever. It can't hold multiple hard drives so you don't keep much on it and it's easy to back up. You streamline your computing existence.
It was really great but after a while I did start to miss being able to just run a game on high settings and have it go at 60FPS without stuttering constantly or ramping up the fans to jet takeoff levels. Or encode a video in less than 10 hours. Or store a couple 1080p movies for later.
After a few years of streamlining, I was ready to start reintroducing things. I started with a gaming PC. Just something that has one small hard drive, a good graphics card and that's about it. It runs nothing important, it lives in my bedroom so I like it shut off, all the way off, when not in use. This is actually great. It could die any time, who gives a shit, it's not backed up. It's a nice thing that I have, not an integral part of my life but it plays games like a baws.
Next I went with a NAS. This is the device that replaces the storage aspect of the big-old-monster desktop tower, but with way lower power draw and much safer redundant disks. Plus it's tiny. You tuck it in a closet with your router and never think about it again. Your laptop backs up to it (time machine 8-) ), your ever-changing video collection goes there, as does any particularly large file that with a laptop you'd have to put on an external drive. It's important not to become obsessive with it. If you store videos on it, go in there and throw away the ones you don't watch every once in a while the same way you might clean out a closet. My NAS runs a VPN so I can access it anywhere. It's like a huge fault-tolerant external hard drive for my laptop that lives out in the ether. Serves movies to the TV too!
Next I bought a server but that is because I'm a nerd. It does nothing to simplify my life and I wouldn't suggest most people do that. But since it goes along with the rest of my modular shit, I don't need to worry about maintaining anything or backing anything up. It doesn't weigh me down.
Of course all this shit is expensive too, but something to think about. I'm p happy with the way I've thrown out the parts about computer ownership that I hate but kept all the good stuff.
which is a plus for reselling it later I suppose
I don't think boston accent qualifies for sexy anywhere on the planet
Huh? I am not sure I get the similarity between that and my thing?
i saw them open for toad the wet sprocket back in like 1994
they were surprisingly assholeish for a band that tried really hard to project the whole "fun-loving, laid back vibe"
I mean, I don't get it.
I am all "yay, macs are nice!"
And the response is always inevitably "you are fucking dumb and people who like macs are dumb."
It's the most bizarre nastiness. I wasn't shitting on what he likes at all.
Ginger hate has been a thing 5ever.
Just not in america I guess? But most of the other colonies definitely.
Maybe you spotted some weird cult? :P
... Angers you say?
Think I'll make her some Panna Cotta.
Yeah it's not a thing in American culture so much.
Is the sleeve for the Lenovo Yoga called "the Pants"?
AWWWW YAH, SHOVE IT IN ME, RIGHT THERHE, OH YAH
Sorry I didn't really mean to be a jerk
I hadn't even heard of it until South Park started making jokes.
you're not allowed to go until my sister is safely gone.
then have at it.
well yeah to be clear my opinion is largely informed by the supposition of modest dollars. with a greater income the stuff that i nominally care about less might break into my 'interested enough to spend it' threshold.
Me either.
lol, yup. I remember having to lug around old inspiron or if I needed something with some grunt having to drag around an m17x. The training I'm at right now about half of the machines are MBAs and there's one MBP.
I saw them last year...
>.>
<.<
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
It is pure jealousy.
I fucking hate macs and also your face.
Good thing I have so many other attractive qualities
>_>
So, where's it from? Or is the reason already lost in time?
Current Playthroughs: Neverwinter Closed Beta|Let's Build! Sim City
I think my date and I were like the youngest people at the venue
@Gooey
I want one, but I know if I wait 6+months shit gets faster/cheaper/etc
IM
SO
OLD
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
i honestly think it comes from the fact that apple's ads (used to, to some extent still do to some extent) play up the idea that apple products are hip and cool and elegant. apple critics seem to come back to this over and over.
like, sony and dell produce premium design-centric all-in-ones and "ultrabooks" that came in right around the cost of an imac or mbp with similar specs. yet i never never never have heard anyone really furious about them.
the difference seems to be the marketing.
i mean, tons of other companies try to project the exact same things in their marketing, but i guess they're not as convincing?
my earliest is either the decemberists or broken social scene
i think i was also 16ish
Same, so when simonwolf told me it was so prevalent in Australian society, I was shocked.