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Quote: Originally Posted by thegoldenmackid Support for G5 machines is dropping fairly quickly, no point in investing in a dead-end. Old Macs still have their uses. And they still sell for quite a bit. But really, it's time to get on the Intel train. We're nearly 4 years into it now.

Quote: Originally Posted by aquajet Could you please explain what this is before instructing people to muck around in the terminal. It's not mucking around at all. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Quote: Originally Posted by fun173 1. Cant disagree with that 2. actually, its a quadro fx4500 with 512mb 3. What if they are not able to afford a mac pro or an imac 2) have you looked at prices for those cards on ebay? They near 200-500 bucks used. I would argue that its not substantially better, if at all, over the 9400m. I mean its a 3+ year old card 3) to incorporate that card and buying the machine itself, you are spending a ton that...

Quote: Originally Posted by velocityg4 I don't know about the players under $300 being crap. I just picked up an LG BD370 for $150 off Amazon. It has great customer reviews. I get excellent video and sound from it so I am quite happy. It also has quick load times and is considered quite reliable. Ok, I should be clearer, I was referring to retail and not online necessarily. I don;t like dropping big bucks online when I can get it in...

The Black Friday discounts are normally $101, EDU discounts normally result in $100. Despite the "modest" and limited discounts this is important because it is the only time that an average person without any special status (government/education/etc) can walk into an Apple Retail Location and receive a discount. We do have a guide chronicling the history of Apple's Black Friday. This has also been discussed, a couple of...

Major stock holders of Apple stock: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=aapl Quote: Originally Posted by mcpryon2 I heard that Xerox owns 90% of both Microsoft and Apple. And the guy who first used the emoticon actually gets 90 cents per instance it's used, but traded that trademark for 90% of all of the companies. There is a 90% chance you are right, or is it wrong? I am confused. =p

MS's Advertising Campaing probally has been fired cause they all been so horrible

Quote: Originally Posted by dukebound85 2) have you looked at prices for those cards on ebay? They near 200-500 bucks used. I would argue that its not substantially better, if at all, over the 9400m. I mean its a 3+ year old card 3) to incorporate that card and buying the machine itself, you are spending a ton that could have been put to current tech thats better off the bat 2 ok 3 say you buy a dual core powermac g5 for like 350 and then the...

It's fun to read the national adverts for "door busters" . . . and then read the fine print on how many units will be available at each store.

Quote: Originally Posted by SnowLeopard2008 Quad OS? You mean tricrap-OS. Who uses XP, Vista and 7? I admit that this hackintosh is interesting, but I would rather buy a netbook, which has better battery life, more processing power, and a bigger screen. Last I checked the Core 2 Duo in this is still better than the Atom cpu in the average netbook. For many size is not an issue but this is more portable than a netbook and almost even pocketable.