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Bitmap Frogs on 17 July 2009
nordlead said:

your title made me think this was a pro Mac thread, but the numbers said the oposite, which is why I was confused.

 

The best offensive strategy is surprise... surprise!

@illegalpalladin: ohm nom nom is the sound Jobs makes when he eats his daily dollar salad T_T

Anyways this whole thing makes me sad because I do like OSX and Apple computers and I hate how the Mac Pro which used to be the most cost-efficient computer in their whole line (very competitive with the Dells and HPs with similar configurations) has become burdened with the dreaded Apple tax. 





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Xoj on 17 July 2009
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Why do I get the feeling that the people who buy Apple notebooks are vastly uninformed.

don't worry people who buy windows pc after vista are too.



tedsteriscool on 17 July 2009

Since when do Macs have octo-core processors?



PearlJam on 17 July 2009
Steroid said:
I don't see how they can justify those prices since they don't include teh cell.

I'm pretty sure every CPU on there would smash the Cell, and then laugh at it.



angrypoolman on 17 July 2009

this looks like it was done on paint



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IllegalPaladin on 17 July 2009

Paint? Really? Looks like Microsoft Office to me.



angrypoolman on 17 July 2009

^ yes, that would be more fitting. lulz



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Bitmap Frogs on 17 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Since when do Macs have octo-core processors?

 

These are dual quad-core CPU computers. Real server-grade processors too, intel charges 750$-2700$ (depending on speed) for a couple of Xeons. The motherboards for those setups are quite expensive to boot.





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tedsteriscool on 17 July 2009
Bitmap Frogs said:
tedsteriscool said:
Since when do Macs have octo-core processors?

 

These are dual quad-core CPU computers. Real server-grade processors too, intel charges 750$-2700$ (depending on speed) for a couple of Xeons. The motherboards for those setups are quite expensive to boot.

Sounds beefy.



Bitmap Frogs on 17 July 2009
tedsteriscool said:
Bitmap Frogs said:

These are dual quad-core CPU computers. Real server-grade processors too, intel charges 750$-2700$ (depending on speed) for a couple of Xeons. The motherboards for those setups are quite expensive to boot.

Sounds beefy.

 

No shit. Hilariously enough, Apple has always had a very weird GPU offering for these, it was either 2004's mid-line nvidia/ati or 2000$ pro GPU. Anyways they used to be very competitive price wise up to the point some people bought them to wipe the HD and install Windows on these.

Until 2009 of course, when Apple decided they should be earning an additional 1000$-1500$ per unit sold on top of what they were earning on the Mac Pro from 2006 to 2008.





Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).