help with me mac
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Kano
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PCs are much better for playing games. The fact that most games are written for PC surely helps...
Tons of wonderful games where you can get yourself more artillery than the HMS Norfolk, and go around blasting ugly monsters or ****y neighbours. Splendid flight simulators where you can go an be the captain of a A380 and crash it and restart with a laugh. Incredible races where you drive crazy machines and bounce off rocks at half a million miles per hour....
I use my computer to work.
When I'm in the mood for some adventure, I take a real car or bike or whatever to some real wild place where real hairy things happen, and you can drive for hours at breakneck speed trying to avoid sinkholes and rocks and ditches and gravel and trucks coming for you sideways, and where real bad guys with real guns may pop out from behind real rocks or bushes and give you a real hard time.
Or I go and head for the deep bush with a real gun, that is very useful when walking somewhere far away where real big fikkin' beasts with sharp things all over and an attitude problem may come without warning and try to snuff the light off you for good.
And when I fancy myself as a fearless pilot, I climb in a real airplane, and fly in real turbulence and downdrafts close to bloody real rocky cliffs, and find out that my rear end tries to rip the seat off from under me, not like in the games or movies.
So, having dealt with my fantasy needs in real life, when I'm in front of my computer I can think about doing some work with it, and don't really want to be interrupted every five minutes by "security warning", "you performed an illegal operation", a frozen blue screen, a request for a non-existing driver, half an hour of tinkering with various settings anytime I plug a device in the machine, or reinstalling my software every couple of days or so. Been there, done that, thank you very much.
I don't miss the games.
Now, when I start my Land Cruiser.....................
Tons of wonderful games where you can get yourself more artillery than the HMS Norfolk, and go around blasting ugly monsters or ****y neighbours. Splendid flight simulators where you can go an be the captain of a A380 and crash it and restart with a laugh. Incredible races where you drive crazy machines and bounce off rocks at half a million miles per hour....
I use my computer to work.
When I'm in the mood for some adventure, I take a real car or bike or whatever to some real wild place where real hairy things happen, and you can drive for hours at breakneck speed trying to avoid sinkholes and rocks and ditches and gravel and trucks coming for you sideways, and where real bad guys with real guns may pop out from behind real rocks or bushes and give you a real hard time.
Or I go and head for the deep bush with a real gun, that is very useful when walking somewhere far away where real big fikkin' beasts with sharp things all over and an attitude problem may come without warning and try to snuff the light off you for good.
And when I fancy myself as a fearless pilot, I climb in a real airplane, and fly in real turbulence and downdrafts close to bloody real rocky cliffs, and find out that my rear end tries to rip the seat off from under me, not like in the games or movies.
So, having dealt with my fantasy needs in real life, when I'm in front of my computer I can think about doing some work with it, and don't really want to be interrupted every five minutes by "security warning", "you performed an illegal operation", a frozen blue screen, a request for a non-existing driver, half an hour of tinkering with various settings anytime I plug a device in the machine, or reinstalling my software every couple of days or so. Been there, done that, thank you very much.
I don't miss the games.
Now, when I start my Land Cruiser.....................
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Try this mod with a mac. What's that sorry? Oh you can't... oh shame.
I gave my Mac Mini a whole 6 months before i decided it was **** and sold it. And that was after spending almost £500 on upgrading the hardware. I'd put new ram in it, an SSD hard drive and a faster Intel Mobile processor. It was a speedy little ****er. But you can't polish a turd and it had to go. I was determined to get used to it after spending dosh on it but just couldn't.
Try this mod with a mac. What's that sorry? Oh you can't... oh shame.
I gave my Mac Mini a whole 6 months before i decided it was **** and sold it. And that was after spending almost £500 on upgrading the hardware. I'd put new ram in it, an SSD hard drive and a faster Intel Mobile processor. It was a speedy little ****er. But you can't polish a turd and it had to go. I was determined to get used to it after spending dosh on it but just couldn't.
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Tricked out a Mac Mini? The bare-bone, rock-bottom, no-frills, cheapest-you-can-get last rung on the ladder? Well, one can't buy himself a Smart car, spend dough on it to try and make it bigger than it is, and say that it's a P.O.S. because it does not perform like a S Class Benz...
Try again. But try with a Mac designed to do what you need to do.
I'm not using Freelanders, because in the conditions where I operate they wouldn't last a week. But the Freelander has never been designed to operate year-long carrying 700-800kg of people and gear in the harshest off-road conditions available. If I bought one, kitted it for Safari, took it out there, and it gave up the ghost, would it be because it's a turd, or because I screwed up in my selection of car for a given application?
