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Quote: Originally posted by Res Yes, if you want a totally striped low end server to run linux on your whipping boy is hard to beat (at least while the rebate is still going), but when you look Dell's desktops in configurations that people will a…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph It's just not worth the trouble to me. Email was designed to be a plain text medium, and that's the only format that's guaranteed to work. To you maybe but otherwise not a convincing argument. Web too was d…
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Quote: Originally posted by sCreeD I go one step further and am loathed to send attachments (and hate those who send unsolicited attachments). "Here, watch this funny movie (sends 18MB MPEG movie)." Die, die DIE!!! Uh, this is an user issue. …
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From Soldam in Japan. Being available for ~6 months? Comes in all-aluminum, silver, white, or black. http://www.soldam.com/barebone/polo_r_figaro/fav/
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Ahhh, I see. Thanks.
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Quote: Originally posted by JLL Big caveat: Bare Feats Something I am not aware of?
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Quote: Originally posted by Res LOL, no. But it is still not a good buy. If you want to add everything in yourself you are much better off building a PC from scratch. If you want to buy a whole PC you would be much better served by the Dimension …
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To be fair, ACD is not known for being the brightest LCD (200 cd/m2 when others are up to 2x as bright) or have the fastest response (important for gaming or fast-motion video). It does look great although personally I dislike the thick bezel and i…
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Quote: Originally posted by Res THe 400SC is not a very good comparison. Once you've customized it at dell and added in the other goodies to bring it up to par, it comes out more expensive then the Dimension 4600 or the OptiPlex. Customize it…
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I agree. Check out http://www.barefeats.com/g5.html. The dualie offers the best bang for the buck. Big caveat though: Panther.
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Quote: Originally posted by Gilsch Hehe, gotta love these annoying price comparisons. We all know Macs are more expensive off the bat than PCs. Don't I know it! I did not start this thread! I think 99% of us all know that Macs are more expen…
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Quote: Originally posted by tyson ok, granted, i didn't have the patience to read this entire thread, but a few things have been ignored when comparing these systems. 1. You get firewire 800 with the g5...thats quite an upgrade. (does the del…
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Quote: Originally posted by JLL Would you PLEASE go to Dell and check the machine you are talking about!!! The 400SC is Dell's smallest PowerEdge server and it DOESN'T have an AGP slot and it DOESN'T have SATA. Maybe you should also do som…
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I think I have said this elsewhere... had Apple ported CounterStrike back then, it would have courted a whole generation of teenagers who by now would/may have grown past simple FPS games and are now into creative (iApps) applications, UNIX stuff, …
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Off of top of my head, Debian, Gentoo, and Mandrake are some of the Linux distributions that work on PowerPC. FreeBSD, of course, works on PPC. It would be interesting to see a performance comparison between the the same OS on different architec…
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Get a cheap PC. PC may also be able to emulate a console soon too! Work in progress for Xbox...
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Quote: Originally posted by pscates But I so many condescending, spec whore PC-using buddies that like to give me endless grief about using a Mac Are condescending, spec-whoring (G5!) Mac using people that like to give people endless grief ab…
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Quote: Originally posted by Barto It may not utilize compression, but what it achieves is compression. Explaination below. Simple archiving of files (eg tarring) DOES compress them. Due to the way disks work, instead of allocating a set of bit…
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Quote: Originally posted by shetline Change artist names to "Last name, First name" format -- because, damn it, that's how I like things sorted. Daphnis et Chloé, not Daphnis et Chloe. I do this too! Except, I only do the last name…
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Yup, SFF (small form factor) PCs are catching on in the PC world as well. Small pic of my iBook next to one of my SFF PCs and also a customized one at this year's E3.