pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Go for it - new thread - "Which was better, Amiga, Spectrum or Commodore?"
*nods head and pours beer for the old skool homies still lost in vector battles*
PC and Mac pricing trends...
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Go for it - new thread - "Which was better, Amiga, Spectrum or Commodore?"
*nods head and pours beer for the old skool homies still lost in vector battles*
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Mine got sold and the money went toward my first windows pc. 
Although it had 95. None of this 3.1 bollocks!
Although it had 95. None of this 3.1 bollocks!
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Mine got sold and the money went toward my first windows pc.
Although it had 95. None of this 3.1 bollocks!
See this is where compassion turns to anger.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
TBF it spent most of its time in DOS playing Doom & C&C. Windows is just how I blagged some of the cash out my parents because it was "educational"
Remembers editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to get your sound card and cd to work and STILL HAVE 610K LEFT TO PLAY GAMES.
Remembers editing autoexec.bat and config.sys to get your sound card and cd to work and STILL HAVE 610K LEFT TO PLAY GAMES.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
Revenge of the mutant camels was
I was never a gamer. Beat everyone on StreetFighter2 for the Sega, even the fuckers who played it by themselves, everytime - (my secret, hit every button at once) - but never bought computers for games.
If I want to play games I play real life games, computer games bore me and make my eyes tired. I've tried, but never been a computer game fan.
I bought a Wii thinking it would get me into combining physical interaction with virtual landscapes, everyone else loves it but I can't be arsed with it... even on a projector, it's fun for a bit but pointless... it's a weird one with me I'll grant you.
I do like the driving games though, in the arcade anyway, Outrun and all that Ferrari stuff with the cockpit you see down Brighton Pier.
Maybe I should save up and buy one of them.
I did have a Neo Geo console once, that was pretty cool, but I had to get shot of it, it was not mine to keep.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
You were a flash git. Neo Geo!
I stopped playing games years ago when I bought a laptop.
This xmas I treated myself to a new gaming PC with a 8800GT in it. Played Crysis and HL2 and a few others and realized the reason I don't play them any more wasn't that I didn't have a good enough pc, but that I can't be arsed. Way to waste £180.
I stopped playing games years ago when I bought a laptop.
This xmas I treated myself to a new gaming PC with a 8800GT in it. Played Crysis and HL2 and a few others and realized the reason I don't play them any more wasn't that I didn't have a good enough pc, but that I can't be arsed. Way to waste £180.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
XerxesVargas
formerly MrMalcontent
No fanboy of any computer company. Its a tool.
Lets look at some facts:
Mac OS Market Share = 8% (source)
So less than 10% of users use Mac. Linux geeks will be even less than that. So lets say 15% of the market use something other than Windows. Which leaves 85% of the market for Windows. You could extraoploate that back to say that since the advent of the internet and the ubiquity of home computers at least that number have been using Windows.
Thererfore for 8 out of 10 people Windows and thier UI is standard, anybody who deviates, for what ever reason either postiive or negative, is changing the defacto standard.
Its not a fanboi thing at all. Its a statement of fact. MS continue to have a dominant market position.
You can rage agaist them all you like, and i don't disagree. But you are raging against the dying of the light, my friend.
You may well have been computing since Babage, and your point? You represent the typical user? You know more than then, therefore the 8 out of 10 are wrong and you are right? Don't understand your point.
Only Mac fanbois get upset at statements of the truth.
Its not being a windows fanboy, most computers sold are windows based, not mac or linux. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but most people are likely to be more familiar with windows/office then they are a mac or open office, if just because its what they use at work/school and the machines are cheaper.
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To be fair, Apple still punches well above its weight in the educational market, so the idea that so many will be unfamiliar to the OS is a moot point. Equally, it's arguably much easier to pick up the Mac OS - certainly my experience in training pc-people on macs. The same's not true the other way perhaps - historic mac users tend to get more flustered and annoyed using pcs.
To be honest, both UIs pretty similar in most ways, and anyone with a modicom of computing common sense can switch between both easily enough.
pk
drink flounce rinse repeat
How do you pronounce "fanbois"?
Is it a Gallic flair, as in "Duboir" or "boudoir" or is it the Avril Lavigne school of trendy spelling?
Either way, using the term is possibly even sadder than queuing for three days outside an Apple Store for a shitty phone that hasn't even been beta tested.
