OHHH MY EYES!!! Look at this G5 --> PC what an idiot!

[galactica]

Some Idiot Kid Turns G5 Into Abomination!!!!!!!

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Apparently the mac community is in an UPROAR!!!!!!!!!!

[bdaboy]

I would take great pleasure in kicking the shit out of that little spoiled brat!!

[AntnyMD]

If he had the cash to buy all the innards of a PC, why didn't he just go buy a second computer? If his parents would be upset if he gave back the computer, wouldn't they be more upset that he destroyed their present?

[galactica]

thats what I am saying!
what an idiot kid. Man i wouldnt mind him being in the room with me, and do a little jedi funk on him!


Hey Kid
what did you do with the G5 parts. want to send them my way !!!!!!!!!!!!

[AntnyMD]

This is a great example of "This is your brain on crack."

[bdaboy]

I would have bought him a cheesy Dell for that G5. He said he just gave away the G5 parts, what a DUMBASS!!

[Cobra]

Someone has more money than sense, methinks. To take an expensive, premium, top-notch thing of beauty like that and turn in into a standard PC seems is insanity. Not to mention how the person who splashed out to get him away from PCs will feel about this.

Custom PC magazine took a G4 and converted it into a PC too.

Someday, when I can afford one, I want a Mac. By that time, it'll be a G20 people are doing this to, by the looks of things just now (thanks to Mr. Blair and his cronies)........

CobraDMX

[housepig]

you know, I've never liked Macs, I'm a PC guy through and through, but even I realize how retarded this kid is.

somebody should call his parents, send them a link to the site...

[BJ_M]

that is really sick .... those things are not cheap and imagine how the parents worked 3 jobs to buy that thing for him ...




If it was my kid:

1. i would have known right away - looking at the key logger logs..

2. taken it away and get old parts back ... and use it myself ..

3. make kid buy his own system - with money he/she earned themsleves..

4. quit extra job ...

[Thargok]

That isn't even PC standard, that moron used a mini board. We are talking a generic 1.1 Ghz chip with no optimizations, on-board sound and video and a slower than hell FSB.

[BJ_M]

i cant stop thinking about it .... what a freaking waste







http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/powerpc-g5.html

[kupton]

OMG! What a spoiled little brat. His poor parents have no idea.

[qshartle]

I will persoanlly shitkick him, then i will take that PC of his, douse it in gaosline, then have some fun with fire, all the while I will pull some Clockwork Orange on him, making him watch EVERY APPLE COMMERCIAL 24/7 until he appreciates them.


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[galactica]

making him watch EVERY APPLE COMMERCIAL 24/7 until he appreciates them.

This is a great idea....
At least I can see we (Mac and PC) all agree something is totally screwed up in this kids head!

[Cornucopia]

Why didn't the idiot just get a copy of VirtualPC?

Scott

[AntnyMD]

VPC doesnt run on the G5 (yet).

[The village idiot]

. I have NEVER seen a finer made case.

From what I've heard, I think the G4 case is a little more slick. We have several at work, and I really like the way it opens with no tools required. And when open, it is fairly easy to get to every part of the machine. The G5 just has the side come off right?

BTW, I'm not a Mac person either, but I can see that they have their uses too. And what that sucker did is truly foolish. For another $40 he could have just bought another case, that was small enough to hide under the desk, and just use that. Or go buy a dead G4 and gut that, don't they look very similar on the outside?

Bastard, wish I had the G5 instead of that sucker. At least I would try to learn to use it.

[qshartle]

I will do it. It is now my lifes purpose. Ill add in the gay "DUDE, YOUR GETTING A DELL!" commercials. That should do the trick.

Q

[Chuffster]

I sell PCs and Macs. Those G5 Macs are...

• Annoyingly heavy to move - the handles are the designer's idea of a joke
• Annoyingly noisy - I have heard quieter hairdryers
• Ridiculously overpriced - A fool and his money...
• Ridiculously underspeced - Too little RAM and Harddrive space out of the box
• Ideally suited to people who can't cope with more than one mouse button

EVERYTIME I sell one, I laugh all the way to the bank.

But back onto the topic, I find it amazing that anyone would desecrate a good computer by housing it in an aluminium cheesegrater

[ZeroSix]

[deadsierra]

I sell PCs and Macs. Those G5 Macs are...
[list][*]Annoyingly heavy to move - the handles are the designer's idea of a joke

Perhaps you should get a membership at a local gym.

[*]Annoyingly noisy - I have heard quieter hairdryers

Yeah, but thats before you turn the hairdryer on.

[*]Ridiculously overpriced - A fool and his money...

BMWs cost money too, but they out perform Civics and do it with style.

[*]Ridiculously underspeced - Too little RAM and Harddrive space out of the box

8GB of RAM and 500GB HD is considered low? Yeah, thats the high end, but you do get the whole range from high end to medium. Maybe you could even argue that the low end RAM is too little, but the smallest HD is actually quite large, even for the most voracious pornography connoisseur (ooh, long complicated words)

[*]Ideally suited to people who can't cope with more than one mouse button

Also suited to people who can't cope with more than, two, three, four, five or even maybe a couple more mouse buttons. But yes, Macs are easy enough to use with any amount of buttons. But, that sounds like more of a plus on the Mac side.

EVERYTIME I sell one, I laugh all the way to the bank.

I'll bet the people at the bank give you some very strange looks...

But back onto the topic, I find it amazing that anyone would desecrate a good computer by housing it in an aluminium cheesegrater

I believe you mean "The worlds most expensive cheese grater"

EDIT: I meant it to be funny up until the two long points, incase that wasn't clear. Oh, and I irrationally hate Civics. Don't ask why, its irrational.
EDIT2: I have a five button Microsoft Bluetooth mouse for use with my BT enabled powerbook. Incase anybody cares.

[ZeroSix]

I find it extremely humorous when people try to justify the one button mouse.

It's absolutely horrible.

[deadsierra]

I find it extremely humorous when people try to justify the one button mouse.

It's absolutely horrible.

Well, there are many reasons why it is good that a one button mouse is standard. It is not the best mouse to use in many cases, as I've noted, I don't use a one button mouse. But, (which I think is the most important point) it forces the DEVELOPERS to pretend that every mac user has a one button mouse. That means that generally, there is nothing in the control-click menu that isn't available elsewhere. I do feel that this, and many other effects of the one button mouse are a bonus to the mac platform.

Would I ever use a one button mouse on my own computer? No. But, do I feel that it is an advantage to have developers design for a single mouse button? Hell yeah!

That being said, I hate it when people always bring up the one-mouse-button argument. Macs have had multibutton mouse support since like system 8.

[Chuffster]

Perhaps you should get a membership at a local gym.

I already have membership to a gym, perhaps I should use it.

Joking aside, some of my early G5 display models sounded like restroom hand dryers. I had to crank up the volume on the rolling demo just so I could hear Jonathan Ive say how much quieter the G5 was.

As far as specs go, Apple shipping some G5 models with only 256Mb or 512Mb installed is a joke.

I don't deny the G5 is a fine machine. On the otherhand, Apple's quality control, standard spec and pricing policy leave a lot to be desired.

For the record, if I had been lucky enough to receive a G5 as a gift I'd have installed Final Cut on it, filled the memory slots, put a proper size hard drive in it, bought some earplugs and lived with it.

[deadsierra]

Perhaps you should get a membership at a local gym.

I already have membership to a gym, perhaps I should use it.

Joking aside, some of my early G5 display models sounded like restroom hand dryers. I had to crank up the volume on the rolling demo just so I could hear Jonathan Ive say how much quieter the G5 was.

As far as specs go, Apple shipping some G5 models with only 256Mb or 512Mb installed is a joke.

I don't deny the G5 is a fine machine. On the otherhand, Apple's quality control, standard spec and pricing policy leave a lot to be desired.

For the record, if I had been lucky enough to receive a G5 as a gift I'd have installed Final Cut on it, filled the memory slots, put a proper size hard drive in it, bought some earplugs and lived with it.

I've heard the "G5 is loud" thing before, but I've never actually experienced it. I assume only some of the machines are affected by this noise issue, 'cause my friends G5 Dual 2 is whisper quiet.

And the RAM, yeah, they could crank it up to a Gig (seems to be the breakpoint on OS X) but really, people can buy that elsewhere, often cheaper. All I know is that my G5 is gonna have 1-2 gigabytes, funds permitting .

Regarding the harddrives however, you're just simply incorrect. The lowend G5 has by default an 80GB drive, which I would list on the small side of medium. The default of 160GB on the other two models is not considered small, on PC, Mac, Linux, Solaris, SGI, or any other system you can think up. If, however, you do require a large amount of space, you can upgrade to half a terabyte, which is a very large amount, more than you really would need to have internal on a computer. I also seem to remember one of your points being the price of a Macintosh computer. I don't see how you can reasonably say this computer is expensive, when you want to make it MORE expensive by changing all the defaults. Options are there, in case you need them. If you don't, you get a break on the price. Many people don't need to 250GB HD, nor the extra RAM. Maybe we can just agree to disagree, but you're still wrong. :P

[qshartle]

The demo G5 arent a very good example. The clear window mabob makes it noisier, and the constant on without care(dust and such) makes it noisier. I have to dust off the inside of my G5 once a month.

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[DivXExpert]

I am definently not a mac user. In fact I think I have only used a mac maybe twenty times at the most. But if I was given a G5 as a gift, I would sure learn fast. I don't like the 1 mouse button thing, but that can be fixed (I think I have seen macs with more than one mouse button).

If I had the money I would buy a mac.
I really do like the way they look. And I love those huge Apple LCD screens.

I am not quite ready to venture into apple territory, I am just now setting up dual boot Linux.

[galactica]

I don't like the 1 mouse button thing, but that can be fixed

I have a 5 button mouse. Come on people... ANY usb mouse works on a mac. heck i have a logitech wireless one that all i had to do was plug in the base and turn the mouse on. no drivers nothing!

it really makes me wonder if apple put 2 button mice on thier macs if sales would tripple! apparently the mouse is a touchy issue when it comes to those pc'ers buying a mac

[qshartle]

I have an awesome mouse I got in japan. Has 7 buttons, the ball, and its wireless. The box said PC ONLY, but i popped it into my usb port, and BAM! all the features.


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[bilestyle]

that is a form of stupidity warranting a new word in the english language.. i think we should hunt down his personal info and tell on him! haha... can you imagine the scenario?? :arents walk in, "explain this website to us son":: hahaha i mean "i dont want to upset them so i'll do something MUCH worse and waste their hard earned money" i mean thas some pretty spurious reasoning if you ask me.