----------------------------------- shorthair Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:06 pm New Proud iMac G5 Owner ----------------------------------- Well apple sucked me in with the Mini. ( as you all know , i once had a post with lots of pretty pics) :D :D But now i have moved up. after taxes it came to $1627.93 w00t w00t student discount. 17" Pixel Perfect (yay) 160Gb HDD Radeon X600 Pro (plays Doom 3 and halo like a charm at medium settings) 512 DDR2 Ram. G5 1.9Ghz Mighty Mouse (so kick ass) Apple Remote ( their media center kicks serious PC ass) There is so much more , and the experiance has been amazing THANK YOU APPLE ----------------------------------- wtd Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:48 pm ----------------------------------- Awesome. Martin should be happy to hear the positive review. ----------------------------------- rizzix Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:55 am ----------------------------------- welcome to the club... ----------------------------------- brenn Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:32 am ----------------------------------- I'd be happy for you, except my iPod earbuds just crapped out on me. When I wanted to use my Shuffle the most >_< *just started working 10 hours a day* ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:02 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, mine comes in a week today (bastards). I can't say I've been too impressed with Apple's earbuds. The included ones are well, cheap earbuds (the same can be said about included headphones wiht just about any music player) and the in ear ones don't stay in your ear. Whatever though. And I don't know about the mighty mouse. My friend's got one, but I don't like how you can't left and right click at the same time. The wheel/ball thing is nice though. As for the iMac G5 - well, next week :D ----------------------------------- Martin Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:52 pm ----------------------------------- I just got offered a brand new nVidia 7800 GTX for 25,000 yen. Help guys. Talk me into getting this mac still...I'm quite torn... ----------------------------------- 1of42 Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:20 pm ----------------------------------- I just got offered a brand new nVidia 7800 GTX for 25,000 yen. Help guys. Talk me into getting this mac still...I'm quite torn... Buy the 7800, get an mb + cpu and the rest of the components, and have a pc that will burn the mac you're getting into the dust. :) (i know im not helping :P) ----------------------------------- Tony Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:21 pm ----------------------------------- its quite simple Martin -- you've already ordered your Mac :wink: though that shouldn't stop you from getting the 7800 GTX anyways, and shipping it over here as a "gift" :lol: ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:29 pm ----------------------------------- I just got offered a brand new nVidia 7800 GTX for 25,000 yen. Help guys. Talk me into getting this mac still...I'm quite torn... Buy the card and you can do the same old stuff a wee bit faster. Buy the Mac and you can do new stuff. ----------------------------------- Martin Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:31 pm ----------------------------------- Hah, the Mac is pretty. I think I'm still going to get it. I might buy the 7800 too though. Too bad you can't upgrade the video on the iMac. ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:31 am ----------------------------------- Hah, the Mac is pretty. I think I'm still going to get it. I might buy the 7800 too though. Too bad you can't upgrade the video on the iMac. Oh, I'm sure you can. It's just more of a challenge. :) ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:34 am ----------------------------------- Hah, yeah. The other thing that seems strange about the iMac is its lack of a dvi slot for a second monitor... ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:43 am ----------------------------------- Yes, but at least there's VGA-out. ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:51 am ----------------------------------- Hey, I didn't know it had that. Where is it? ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:51 am ----------------------------------- It's the wee little port on the far side next to the ethernet jack. It's a mini VGA-out port. Does VGA, as well as S-video and composite video output. All with an adapter, of course. ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:33 am ----------------------------------- Ah cool. Just mirroring though, or can I set up an actual secondary monitor? ----------------------------------- wtd Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:09 pm ----------------------------------- It does not... by default. There are "monitor spanning" hacks, though. :) ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:59 pm ----------------------------------- Cool. I realize that I don't really play games anymore, and the ones I do play (Warcraft III pretty much) I can get on the Mac. So yeah, I'm sold. And there's always Breakout and super Breakout if I'm feeling really wild. ----------------------------------- Mazer Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:17 pm ----------------------------------- You mean you haven't played Evasive Maneuvers for OSX?! ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:01 pm ----------------------------------- You mean you haven't played Evasive Maneuvers for OSX?! You better be porting it right now :evil: ----------------------------------- Martin Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:19 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah Coutsos. When is EM becoming open source? ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:14 am ----------------------------------- You'd still need the Turing interpreter, and that means you'll need VirtualPC. ----------------------------------- Mazer Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:17 pm ----------------------------------- The Turing EM (and it's remake) haven't been open sourced. Er, neither have the other ~5 reincarnations. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:32 pm ----------------------------------- What are you guys talking about? EM was open sourced just a little while ago. In fact... What luck! [url=http://oasi.upc.es/~kiusap/flash/happy_tree_friends/petelol/htf_eyes.swf]it's still floating around in cyberspace!! ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:41 pm ----------------------------------- Uugghhh... You should have been a little less obvious with the link though ;). I would get the 7800, but that's of course just me... A good mac is great too. Actually, I would get both, if possible.