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  • Quote: Originally Posted by Isomorphic I'd love a small, ambidextrous laser mouse with a scroll pad and a minimum of five buttons (left, middle, right, forward, back). Apparently no one (Apple Logitech, Microsoft) is capable of making such a dev…
    in New Mighty Mouse Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by vinea So this is why you keep telling melgross that hardware is not part of the definition? If they are neither true nor untrue then his definition is just as valid (if not more so) than yours and hardcore gamer can b…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by KD86 Seriously, I don't mean to be rude here, but is anyone else getting tired of all the complaints from gamers? All I ever hear is "this sucks for gaming" or "that sucks for gaming" as if gaming is a serious task th…
    in New Mighty Mouse Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Yea, I read it. So you wrote it must be the truth eh? I told you what I mean by the term "hardcore gamer" or "hardcore gaming". That is called a definition. They are neither true or untrue. Quote: Because O…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Gon I personally take "hardcore gamer" to mean something else - broadly put, someone who takes the game seriously in one way or another, and plays it at a deep level or is highly skilled. What I don't associate with it…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Well geez, I thought we were having a semi-serious conversation but anyone that thinks nethack is more hardcore than Crysis is a kook even in jest. But hey, if that's your criteria the Mac Mini is one hardcore…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot So you're acknowledging that it is a multi-button mouse? (Left, Right, Center, and Squeeze.... thats 4 "buttons". Whether they are mechanically separate or not is irrelevant.) I can only assume…
    in New Mighty Mouse Comment by gon May 2008
  • I wrote a huge reply and then Safari crashed on me. Once again. Why can't they put that Flash plugin into another thread instead of letting it kill the whole browser? Quote: Originally Posted by vinea It can also be argued (probably not by me, th…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by vinea Actually, it has a lot to do with hardware. As you say, a decent "non-casual" gaming rig is a mere $1300 with a desktop 3.0Ghz CPU and a 8800GT offered by companies with a lot of desktop sales. Apple isn't…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot You do realize that the current Apple mouse only LOOKS like a one-button mouse, right? In fact, it has four different buttons plus the scroll ball. I agree, it's not the greatest mouse availabl…
    in New Mighty Mouse Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by bobertoq Seems like pushing it... 30" with glossy LED screen (1000:1 contrast ratio, 500 cd/m2) more ports 3GB (three 1GB sticks) of 1200MHz DDR3; up to 8GB 3.06 GHz (Intel) Quad-core (Extreme chip) 256GB Solid …
    in High end iMac wish list Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign The hardware is no worse than a Macbook really and people have no problems buying those and you don't hear people bitching about the 2.5" drive or GMA or that they're largely sealed boxes. You know what?…
    in After the new iMac, Where is the new Mini? Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I don't know why you are making that comparison. The XBox Elite costs $449. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....ci_sku=8301492 The I think the real question is, why are you making that comparison? …
    in Apple developing 3D gaming controller for Apple TV Comment by gon May 2008
  • What could they possibly add to such perfection? You don't think... a second button? Anyway, the sooner the better they do *something* with it, the better. It's an antique piece of crap. I understand and sort of appreciate the rationale behind …
    in New Mighty Mouse Comment by gon May 2008
  • Nothing else to add but that at least one of the function keys on the new Apple keyboards are already set to trigger Expose functions and have a little icon to show it. On the old keyboards and any standard keyboard, the defaults are F9 through F12 …
    in How to manage open applications Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Well, the numbers support for casual gamers is against your average non casual gamer, not the hard core gamer. There the numbers would be much larger. I have no idea where you are going with the "hardcore" …
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You'll have to be clearer. Which way are you going with this? 100:1 FOR the casual gamer, or AGAINST them? Read it over until "non-casual" sinks in. Casual gamers are on neither side of that comparison.
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Bergermeister Then why is it selling so well? Being the smallest laptop that runs OS X probably helps. How should I know?
    in What can we expect for the MacBook Air? Comment by gon May 2008
  • Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The interesting thing though, is that it's the gamers themselves on these gaming sites that are saying that they would move to the Mac if the boards were there. I'm as interested as you are to find out why, ot…
    in More unofficial Mac clones up for sale on eBay Comment by gon May 2008