proud new owner of a macbook

[BlueDaisy]

$7000... for a computer?
I could buy a freakin' car for that money, or 7 really nice desktops. :O

He also bought a $2000+ camera.

And I think that is with everything on it, my bro only paid $3000 for his mac, and it is pretty sweet.

ONLY?

 

[The Sign Painter]

$7000... for a computer?
I could buy a freakin' car for that money, or 7 really nice desktops. :O

He also bought a $2000+ camera.

And I think that is with everything on it, my bro only paid $3000 for his mac, and it is pretty sweet.

ONLY?

24 inch screen, 500GB, all kinds of awesome stuff.

 

[Gnome]

$7000... for a computer?
I could buy a freakin' car for that money, or 7 really nice desktops. :O

He also bought a $2000+ camera.

And I think that is with everything on it, my bro only paid $3000 for his mac, and it is pretty sweet.

you can get a better Windows with only 1500.

 

[Tyler.]

I was looking at some of the macbook prices. You can get a PC that's at least two times better for like 1,000 dollars, probably less. Macs are incredibly overpriced. The only thing you get different in a mac is a different operating system. If my PC setup was a mac, it would probably cost me like 5,000 dollars, as opposed to 800.

 

[Gnome]

$7000... for a computer?
I could buy a freakin' car for that money, or 7 really nice desktops. :O

He also bought a $2000+ camera.

And I think that is with everything on it, my bro only paid $3000 for his mac, and it is pretty sweet.

ONLY?

24 inch screen, 500GB, all kinds of awesome stuff.

Moniter size doesn't matter since you can hook most computers up to TVs. and 500gb isn't anything I've got 800 gigs.

 

[Pear]

Quoting limited to 4 levels deep

ONLY?

24 inch screen, 500GB, all kinds of awesome stuff.

Moniter size doesn't matter since you can hook most computers up to TVs. and 500gb isn't anything I've got 800 gigs.

I've got a terabyte.
I bought it for $500, plus $200 later for a better video card.

 

[David]

I spent 4000 at the apple store, that's with the i7 MacBook pro antiglare 15' 500gb hardrive etc etc with iWork, magic mouse, and the 1199 dollar final cut studio.

edit - also got a warranty on the mac.

 

[David]

And the cam was 2800 with the lens and warranty memory card and bag

 

[beehdaubs]

ALL THAT MONNNNEEEEEEYYYYY


HHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

 

[Rocketman]

Everyday it's something new, eh, buddy? Life is swell.

 

[Rocketman]

Robbed a bank.

 

[Sonicdude41]

Time to lrn2hackintosh, guise.

 

[Psychonaut]

ALL THAT MONNNNEEEEEEYYYYY


HHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

basically, this.
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>tl;dr</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">my computer cost $400, with a 250 gb hard drive. the tv i'm using for a monitor probably cost $400, and it's nice enough, though I've heard imacs and macbooks have sweet displays.

I'd rather be able to hook it up to an xbawkz heug hdtv personally, but IIRC, you can do the same with Macs, too, so it's kind of a moot point.

I added a 1TB hard drive, which cost me $150 if I remember correctly, and a $150 video card, which made/makes it run silky smooth, until only the most srs of srs bzns.

3 GB of DDR2, btw, just going to add 4GB of ddr instead of doing the whole upgrade to a new motherboard/processor BS, since I've heard DDR3 is overhyped/not used enough. and then I saw that fiber optic intel thred. FFFFUUUUUU-

so mine was $1100, give or take a bit. wireless keyboard/mouse = $50. I think it's a dual core, no f'ing clue, as it's a core 2 duo. what the *censored.2.0* kind of name is that. :/

*edit* bear in mind this was a year and a half ago, and the same computer would cost significantly less, today, or a better model could be purchased.

if I was to upgrade to something with ddr3/one of those fancy i3/5/7 processors, it would cost me about $1300, not adding the RAM but with the 3x more expensive "gaming model" processor (wut), to upgrade to a ddr3-capable computer.

and that's just stupid, considering I could just buy a computer with that motherboard/processor/all the other things for about the same price, if I didn't want to go for the expensive ass gaming model processor.

but of course, I would have to open up my own computer and do things to it, and lord knows only professionals Genius' can do that.

tl;dr, macs are overpriced.

and actually, come to think of it, you could (but I'm not 100% sure) just buy the OS separately, and install it on your PC/laptop, if you just HAD to run that software on a mac OS.

references: Mac OS @ Google Products, or whatever
ddr3/i7 capable motherboard
"top of the line" processor

I'm fairly sure you could find the stuff from frys at some other wholesale/warehouse technical store at a similar price. but they don't have shiny clean walls with neat rows of mac products, do they?
/macbashing</div>

 

[Pear]

ALL THAT MONNNNEEEEEEYYYYY


HHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

basically, this.
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>tl;dr</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">my computer cost $400, with a 250 gb hard drive. the tv i'm using for a monitor probably cost $400, and it's nice enough, though I've heard imacs and macbooks have sweet displays.

I'd rather be able to hook it up to an xbawkz heug hdtv personally, but IIRC, you can do the same with Macs, too, so it's kind of a moot point.

I added a 1TB hard drive, which cost me $150 if I remember correctly, and a $150 video card, which made/makes it run silky smooth, until only the most srs of srs bzns.

3 GB of DDR2, btw, just going to add 4GB of ddr instead of doing the whole upgrade to a new motherboard/processor BS, since I've heard DDR3 is overhyped/not used enough. and then I saw that fiber optic intel thred. FFFFUUUUUU-

so mine was $1100, give or take a bit. wireless keyboard/mouse = $50. I think it's a dual core, no f'ing clue, as it's a core 2 duo. what the *censored.2.0* kind of name is that. :/

*edit* bear in mind this was a year and a half ago, and the same computer would cost significantly less, today, or a better model could be purchased.

if I was to upgrade to something with ddr3/one of those fancy i3/5/7 processors, it would cost me about $1300, not adding the RAM but with the 3x more expensive "gaming model" processor (wut), to upgrade to a ddr3-capable computer.

and that's just stupid, considering I could just buy a computer with that motherboard/processor/all the other things for about the same price, if I didn't want to go for the expensive ass gaming model processor.

but of course, I would have to open up my own computer and do things to it, and lord knows only professionals Genius' can do that.

tl;dr, macs are overpriced.

and actually, come to think of it, you could (but I'm not 100% sure) just buy the OS separately, and install it on your PC/laptop, if you just HAD to run that software on a mac OS.

references: Mac OS @ Google Products, or whatever
ddr3/i7 capable motherboard
"top of the line" processor

I'm fairly sure you could find the stuff from frys at some other wholesale/warehouse technical store at a similar price. but they don't have shiny clean walls with neat rows of mac products, do they?
/macbashing</div>

Unfortunately, they don't sell it separate. Hackintosh is the only option.

 

[Smugleaf]

kso
send me your old computer pl0x.

he smashed it, remember?

 

[Psychonaut]

ALL THAT MONNNNEEEEEEYYYYY


HHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

basically, this.
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>tl;dr</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">my computer cost $400, with a 250 gb hard drive. the tv i'm using for a monitor probably cost $400, and it's nice enough, though I've heard imacs and macbooks have sweet displays.

I'd rather be able to hook it up to an xbawkz heug hdtv personally, but IIRC, you can do the same with Macs, too, so it's kind of a moot point.

I added a 1TB hard drive, which cost me $150 if I remember correctly, and a $150 video card, which made/makes it run silky smooth, until only the most srs of srs bzns.

3 GB of DDR2, btw, just going to add 4GB of ddr instead of doing the whole upgrade to a new motherboard/processor BS, since I've heard DDR3 is overhyped/not used enough. and then I saw that fiber optic intel thred. FFFFUUUUUU-

so mine was $1100, give or take a bit. wireless keyboard/mouse = $50. I think it's a dual core, no f'ing clue, as it's a core 2 duo. what the *censored.2.0* kind of name is that. :/

*edit* bear in mind this was a year and a half ago, and the same computer would cost significantly less, today, or a better model could be purchased.

if I was to upgrade to something with ddr3/one of those fancy i3/5/7 processors, it would cost me about $1300, not adding the RAM but with the 3x more expensive "gaming model" processor (wut), to upgrade to a ddr3-capable computer.

and that's just stupid, considering I could just buy a computer with that motherboard/processor/all the other things for about the same price, if I didn't want to go for the expensive ass gaming model processor.

but of course, I would have to open up my own computer and do things to it, and lord knows only professionals Genius' can do that.

tl;dr, macs are overpriced.

and actually, come to think of it, you could (but I'm not 100% sure) just buy the OS separately, and install it on your PC/laptop, if you just HAD to run that software on a mac OS.

references: Mac OS @ Google Products, or whatever
ddr3/i7 capable motherboard
"top of the line" processor

I'm fairly sure you could find the stuff from frys at some other wholesale/warehouse technical store at a similar price. but they don't have shiny clean walls with neat rows of mac products, do they?
/macbashing</div>

Unfortunately, they don't sell it separate. Hackintosh is the only option.

then I'm mistaken. knew it was too good to be true.

and then I found it funny that people say windows are the bad guys, when mac's got a small monopoly going. .-.

 

[NikoKing]

lulz

Anyways, nice I suppose. I'm not into Macs that much. I'm more of a Windows guy to be honest :S .

 

[David]

kso
send me your old computer pl0x.

he smashed it, remember?

I dont remember

 

[Cottonball]

And the cam was 2800 with the lens and warranty memory card and bag

How old are you?


And *censored.3.0* camera bag, unless it was one of those free packages things.

xD that compared to my camera im going to get is alot.



Oh Canon Rebel xs how you taunt me in the Future Shop flyer.

 

[David]

And the cam was 2800 with the lens and warranty memory card and bag

How old are you?


And *censored.3.0* camera bag, unless it was one of those free packages things.

xD that compared to my camera im going to get is alot.



Oh Canon Rebel xs how you taunt me in the Future Shop flyer.

17

And the bag was only 90 bucks. its a 2200 dollar camera/lens, i need a bag.

the 2800 was originally 3100 but the guy gave me a discount.