Posted 08/21/2009 at 07:59:11am

THey are just chasing the market like everyone else..

Posted 08/15/2009 at 06:51:09pm

Cant buy them if they don't make them! Where is the pipeline?

Posted 08/15/2009 at 01:26:01pm

There will always be those who would rather work every day in their driveway on a 1960 s 'classic' fuel chugging car saying more or less the same thing the build your own PC crowd is saying now. At the end of the day 99.9% of the world just wants to get from point A to point B and dont care what the tech of the car is so long as it doesnt make itself an issue. 

Gamers should and do care about gaming experience. Undeniably the trend is away from the desktop limitations. How long it will take is the only question. Most people won't notice and wont care if they do notice, they will just be happily playing the holographic games from their iWatch wristwatch and paying no heed to the dinosaurs shaking their fists at the sky and dealing in a shrinking niche market for 'vintage motherboards'.  

Posted 07/31/2009 at 10:27:45am

2) Agreed. WHat are you excited about? Light Summer Reading: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=pc+game+market+dying&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

3)  Macs are better. I agree that there may be some that prefer to use windows and will never look around to consider other options. For them it has recently become possible to find a workflow and be happy. While both crash under extreme pressure, which is true of everything in the world, the definition of extreme is variable, and to date has happened once over the last 4 years for me. Thats once across 6 Mac platforms in play in that time. Which needed a reboot? My 4 year old's  iMac. OJ will do that to you...

3.5) By all means please stick with an OS which you admit many don't like even when it isn't crashing...

4) You can't see the list. It is deleted. So is yours. Oh well. Lets move on. It is true that I don't over clock my Mac for the simple reason that it has never come up as an issue. Write this one up to paradigm differences.  Even when on the ~ 15 pcs i built from scratch i never overclocked. Didn't see the point. I realize that some disagree. Probably everyone on MaxPC. I get that OCers like that feeling of getting over on the system that increasing the clock speed by a few %s gives you and would not presume to deny them it even if i could. In short, once the machine boots, I lose interest in the machine and the OS and just want to get work done. OS get out of the way. Hardware get out of the way. On MACs and PCs I think this is possible with a recently very large edge to MAC/OS X. 

5) My point was that the conflation with what you do on one OS or the other with expertise is false. It doesn't add credibility to your argument because it is arbitrary and unverifiable. To claim expertise one would have to have done testing on both platforms in an unbiased way, published the results and submitted them for peer review. Short of that, my saying it or you saying it is just unsubstantiated noise.

If you are a windows-head and arbitrarily rule out Apple then you would never be happy with the workflow on the MAC- for the sole reason that it is on the MAC-- it is a self fulfilling prophecy. It really has no bearing on which is better. For me I prefer the hardware and OS not to intrude on my workflow. That rules out PC's and Windows.

 6) I was implying that anger attempts to substitute passion for logic at the cost of persuasiveness or even coherence. Apologizing after a rant does not make the rant a treatise. 

7) I disagree. Having two children, I would be amazed if they thought that abstractly. On the other hand,  from my above responses, you can observe that I tend to stop paying attention to what is being argued when I feel that the argument is unsound. The reason I feel it is a sound methodology for discourse is experiential. I have found over and over that in those cracks and holes in logic and thought lie the devils at the core of the argument itself.

 I concede that reflecting it back was probably too subtle a way to respond.

All that aside, I believe you believe what you are saying. I respect that you do not write off Apple and Macs wholesale but as dictated by your experiences.  I of course feel the same way about my position for the same reason. :-)

Thanks for chatting! 

Posted 07/31/2009 at 08:31:17am

1) its ok to breathe in between sentences. 

 2) No one is arguing that there have never been PC Games. My point is, there don't seem to be many/any in the pipe that look interesting. Compare the pipe over the last 5 years. Having been driven from a 100% windows footing to a 90% OS X footing, one or two games being the remaining 10% and the sole reason for PC in my house, I fail to see a compelling reason in the windows world to reverse course. 

 3) Your observations of your mac experience as compared to other mac users is interesting but its hard to see a relevant point there. I don't think anyone is saying its impossible to crash a Mac, but it would be challenging to support Windows as a superior platform for stability even before Vista let alone after.  

4) I wishlisted a rig on newegg and it cost ~ 1000 more than the Mac Pro with same specs / software loadout. I deleted it, but there you go.  

5) I use my Mac for all the things you use your PC for so I guess there is no advantage either way in terms of either of us knowing what we are talking about.

6) Its ok to get angry, we all have our biases and buttons. I think its more important to be responsbiel for your actions when angry. I will leave it at that.

7) The swapping of MAC for PC in that reply was an illustration of how disposable the argument is. It really is based on nothing and says nothing. If the validity of the statement is equivalent before and after swap, what was the point? BTW I did it again on point 4 if you didn't notice.

I don't mind rants, but they really aren't the same as making coherent points and certainly not the same as proof, truth, or even persuasion. Not that anyone comes to these threads for any of the above, I'm just saying... ;-)

Posted 07/31/2009 at 06:55:46am

It is being released today as Windows 7. 

Posted 07/31/2009 at 03:48:06am

Original intent as defined by who?

Posted 07/30/2009 at 06:19:49pm

It is well-established that there is no free speech right to engage in illegal or defamatory activity. Threats, "fighting words," obscenity, and libelous speech are not protected by the free speech clause. So there is no free speech right to engage in these activities anonymously or to maintain your anonymity against a legal challenge.

Posted 07/30/2009 at 06:17:30pm

It is well-established that there is no free speech right to engage in illegal or defamatory activity. Threats, "fighting words," obscenity, and libelous speech are not protected by the free speech clause. So there is no free speech right to engage in these activities anonymously or to maintain your anonymity against a legal challenge.

Posted 07/30/2009 at 06:12:00pm

Where does it assume that? Or are you saying that you assume it does yourself?