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ok this is so sweeeeeet, i just come off training in work.. and my group all now been split into different teams... most of us just been filtered into already existing teams, anyways during my trainin i got a phone call from a mac user.. not really knowing what to i found my coach ( who was like only mac advisor in the building) and he told me how to fix the problem.. i then blagged him to give me some of mac call backs and he was more than happy as since he now a coach he dont do call backs anymore and he needed some one to take over from him.... that was me
anyways over last week people in my trainin who new i can use a mac have been emailin me call backs, now rest of there teams caught on too that i can do mac queries, so everyone givin me slips of paper wif fone numbers in them etc... got about 40 in about 2 days..so realising that macs are now gettin really popular a senior manager has agreed to start a mac department in work.. bacically at min its gonna be me and mate mark
and to sweaten the deal im gettin a massive jump in pay from 17k to 25k as i now a department head and they giving my own g5..
Mac Pro
4 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 0
Country kit
1GB (2 x 512MB)
Mac OS X
2 x SuperDrives
250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
Apple Cinema Display (20" flat panel)
retails for about £2500... its upgradable to 16gb ram its already got 4 g-forces in there... and u cant get virus's or spy ware...
dont care what u all say about macs... u can all suck my balls if u dont like em... as im pretty sure this is gonna piss on most pcs..specially once i get 16gb of ram, in it :D
plus it loooooks soo nice...
im sorry but i so have been converted to mac... the os is way better than xp, the comp it self looks way more stylish than most pc( exluding alien ware...they are coool looking)
also as i do photoshop alot... vista no longer supports adobe
and unlike xp and vista its voice recognition actually works really really well!
and the best thing is its freeeeee..... get it in about 2-3 weeks,
rant over...
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Dud.TraP
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now try playing cs on it
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yeah i will prob have to set up a dual boot, as dont think hl is out on mac.. if it is i aint seen it,
pld cod2 and d3 on mates mac and they play really smooth
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Lol! Pld!
Nice one dessy - is this the new I386 version then, so you can install windows on it?
I thought you were at uni btw?
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finished uni... got a job... yeah been told by the guy in work that i can dual boot it.. so i assume so... tbh i still no f**k all about macs.. i can sort out most connection problems and set up random things like mail and stuff.
thats why i gettin one so i can improve me skillz :P
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also even tho i aint seen hl. can i not still d/l steam and then cs/dod etc. or wud it just not work on the mac os?
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na its an executable
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yeah dual booot it but question 16gb of ram was that a miss type
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How can you fit 16GB ram, unless its a server`??
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[D wrote:
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retails for about £2500... its upgradable to 16gb ram its already got 4 g-forces in there... and u cant get virus's or spy ware...
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Macs are nice, I might get a mac mini at some point, but MACS can and do get Viruses and Spyware, its just there is ALOT less of it out there.
Once more people start getting Macs you will see alot more maware on it.
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Grizz you cant even put 16gb of ram in a server a 32bit system at best can only use 4gb
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you can - you just add /PAE to the boot.ini file which enables physical adress extensions...
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I'm tinkin of buyin me sis a mac for about 300 squids, because maca are very girlyish (sry dessy). Can you get microsoft office on it or wud u get some other kinda word processor. She's goin to uni (and i'm not, got bad results at A levels), so i wana get her something useful she will need in uni.
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Open office is just as good as ms office (even better sometimes)
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Cock with a soc wrote:
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U can have more then 4Gig in any computer 32bit or 16bit.
It comes down to how much memory any thread can access (eg programs).
32bit systems can only access 3Gig, 64bit can access more memory.
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i dont like open office
i already said that ross! 
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Simple fact is that Macs are rather cool these days, and the one you're getting Des is particularly awesome. You can indeed have a dual OS install, with Windows and Mac OS X. You should then have no trouble installing HL on the Windows OS and playing as normal. As far as I'm aware, there are a few different ways of doing this: either the computer has a dual boot option, so you run either Windows or OS X on it, or you can run Windows 'on' OS X simultaneously, which presumably takes a hit in performance but would still be fine for some things.
Also, until Adobe finish developing the proper Intel version of CS, it might actually be faster to use CS on Windows on the Mac than running it through Rosetta on OS X!
Nice pay rise btw! Now just give it a couple of weeks and then ask for a Mac laptop too!
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hamble wrote:
Nice pay rise btw! Now just give it a couple of weeks and then ask for a Mac laptop too!
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he got the lappy along with the pay rise
lucky bastard
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LINUX ALL THE WAY YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH supports .exes and wat ever macs use like .applepiebannasplitendingafteradot
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