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[Deleted member 28206]

@Dylan @maddison

I've just spent £1200 on a new MacBook Pro retina.

I feel sick, that's the most I've ever spent, can you please make me feel better by telling me this is worth it

2.6ghz i5
16GB Ram
256 SSD

 

[Bungle]

@Dylan @maddison

I've just spent £1200 on a new MacBook Pro retina.

I feel sick, that's the most I've ever spent, can you please make me feel better by telling me this is worth it

2.6ghz i5
16GB Ram
256 SSD

@maddison will be along shortly to show you where you could have got one for half the price and twice the power.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Ffs

 

[muddy mudguard]

wow cool as f! Are you american?

I'm not American, but I do live here yes.

The plate it blue and white - there's an outline of Texas in between EFC and 1878.

If only I could figure out how to upload pics, I'd post one.

 

[Bungle]

Ffs

On the bright side mate at least you'll get a tailored fitness plan out of him for free as well.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

I'm not American, but I do live here yes.

The plate it blue and white - there's an outline of Texas in between EFC and 1878.

If only I could figure out how to upload pics, I'd post one.

Do you have a smart phone mate?

 

[Dylan]

@Dylan @maddison

I've just spent £1200 on a new MacBook Pro retina.

I feel sick, that's the most I've ever spent, can you please make me feel better by telling me this is worth it

2.6ghz i5
16GB Ram
256 SSD

I like the 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD....however, the cpu, it depends on the model. i5's can range from just better than poor, to quite good. Although generally you don't get hyper-threading on i5's...they tend to save that for the i7 range.

 

[Moomin]

Watching secret eaters on channel 4. Always the same format, fatties cry because they say " we eat healthy and everything" and claim to eat 1500 calories a day and want to know why they don't lose weight.

Truth always is they don't eat healthy and eating more than double what they said. Once all the evidence is put in front of them they laugh and say they never realise.

 

[RaleighBlue]

@Dylan @maddison

I've just spent £1200 on a new MacBook Pro retina.

I feel sick, that's the most I've ever spent, can you please make me feel better by telling me this is worth it

2.6ghz i5
16GB Ram
256 SSD

As with all computer things it depends on what you want.

I bought the wife a Macbook Pro in January and she loves it. It was a good purchase. If you're looking to game....maybe you shouldn't have bought a Mac, but it depends on the games, I suppose.

Retina display is very nice, and if OSX is your thing...well...I guess it has upsides? I like terminals?

 

[Hellerad]

Home PC has 10g RAM, quad core i7, and a mid range video card. I've run the Elder Scrolls Online Beta on Max Ultra across split monitors with zero lag.

I built that 3 years ago for $800. I'm less familiar with cramming that into a laptop, but if you were happy with an OS other than Apple, you could have saved some money.

 

[RaleighBlue]

I built that 3 years ago for $800. I'm less familiar with cramming that into a laptop, but if you were happy with an OS other than Apple, you could have saved some money.

Eh. Yeah, but not really.

I'm no Apple-fanboy (Linux forevs), but the Macbook Pro is pretty ridiculously good stuff. Regardless of the OS the hardware is pretty hot, it's not home built (which you can't do with a laptop...safely), and it's a laptop, which always boosts cost. Additionally, the retina display is actually really nice.

I'd never get OSX for gaming anyway, but for certain tasks (video/audio editing) it's a far superior OS.

So, like everything else, depends on your goals. I like tinkering with backend systems, so a terribly cheap + a linux os and a huge amount of display space (for all the windows) is better than fast for me, for example.

 

[Hellerad]

Eh. Yeah, but not really.

I'm no Apple-fanboy (Linux forevs), but the Macbook Pro is pretty ridiculously good stuff. Regardless of the OS the hardware is pretty hot, it's not home built (which you can't do with a laptop...safely), and it's a laptop, which always boosts cost. Additionally, the retina display is actually really nice.

I'd never get OSX for gaming anyway, but for certain tasks (video/audio editing) it's a far superior OS.

So, like everything else, depends on your goals. I like tinkering with backend systems, so a terribly cheap + a linux os and a huge amount of display space (for all the windows) is better than fast for me, for example.

Very good points. I should have mentioned, mine was built more towards gaming with a little amateur home studio recording. I swerved Apple OS as I had issues with conversions/partitions in the past and my work requires non-Apple OS. I don't have anything against it, but I hate mixing Apple and other operating systems. Better to stay uniform.

 

[RaleighBlue]

Very good points. I should have mentioned, mine was built more towards gaming with a little amateur home studio recording. I swerved Apple OS as I had issues with conversions/partitions in the past and my work requires non-Apple OS. I don't have anything against it, but I hate mixing Apple and other operating systems. Better to stay uniform.

Oh gawd...

Hackintoshes? That...never ends well. Fun though

But yeah, I'd totally build my own PC for gaming if I did enough of it to justify the outlay.

 

[Garrick]

I like the 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD....however, the cpu, it depends on the model. i5's can range from just better than poor, to quite good. Although generally you don't get hyper-threading on i5's...they tend to save that for the i7 range.

Really, 4 threads and 8gb of RAM is enough for most tasks these days. That's what I have in my desktop I use for gaming.

There are some exceptions (video editing is the big one) but otherwise were I to get another computer I'd spare myself from an i7 and 16 gigs and get a bigger SSD instead.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

@Dylan I don't need hyper threading, it's purely for virtualization r/w to the ssd I'm happy.