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Chill Callahan
Nov 14, 2012
whats the best computer

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pram
Jun 10, 2001
apple

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Apple SE/30

Jesustheastronaut!
Mar 9, 2014




Lipstick Apathy
heard alienware is best and fastest and also most powerful and handsome from a very reliable source (microsoft.com)

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

packard bell legend elite 4705 D

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
what's the one that catches fire a lot and comes preloaded with illegal pornography

pram
Jun 10, 2001

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

packard bell legend elite 4705 D

its right there in the name people

pram
Jun 10, 2001


the legend..

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

f*ck yes play some megarace at max settings on that b*tch

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
if you're like a rocket engineer and you need to make a computer to drive a rocket, well I don't know if Apple have that yet.. you'll probably find that the best computer in that siuation is... idk a chrome book or maybe something different.

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin

pram posted:



the legend..

my family owned this legend when i was a child. i played myst, megarace, descent and some super solvers on this beast. good times.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

gizmos and gadgets best super solvers

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
i used to have a compaq presario

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

the best computer is the computer that is there for you

ConanTheLibrarian
Aug 13, 2004


dis buch is late
Fallen Rib
here you are OP: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372609,00.asp

pepito sanchez
Apr 3, 2004
I'm not mexican

quote:

Desktops with Android and Linux are harder to finder

gently caress you article

also did u know all schools now issue free laptops with ubuntu in the great country of u r gay????

pepito sanchez
Apr 3, 2004
I'm not mexican
apple

pepito sanchez
Apr 3, 2004
I'm not mexican

quote:

VILLA CARDAL, Uruguay - Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in this rural South American hamlet: Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earlier.

"This is like an early visit from Santa Claus," beamed 11-year old Eduardo de los Santos, clutching his computer with its shiny white case and bright green trim.

i love my little gay country

e: ubuntu suucks though

pram
Jun 10, 2001
oh yeah yr the dude who talked about that bizarre Uruguay only programming language or w/e lol

pepito sanchez
Apr 3, 2004
I'm not mexican
thankfully that fad is slowly fading away. artech is still a very big company and their software is used big-time, but the recent popularity of .net stuff and ruby-on-rails is a slight step forward. genexus is still a thing because it's super fast at generating code in whatever languge and security is truly and admittedly really good. drawback: massive inefficiency

i'll still take the dumb workshop because i have to, but i'll never end up in a job working exclusively with that unless i'm on like the brink of homelessness

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
Mac IIci best personal computer of all time

25 MHz 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU
released at a time when most developers were still targeting 8 MHz 68000 hardware so everything loving flew on it, like whatever you tried worked instantly
then the 32KB L2 cache card practically doubled its performance for only a few bucks (later became standard)
up to 128MB of RAM—in 1989!
32-bit clean ROM so System 7 could use virtual memory without hacks
still supported System 6 so old software also ran (unlike its successors)
decent SCSI implementation and minimum OS of System 6 (which added support for 2+ GB disks) so it supported effectively infinite storage

I think it was even the longest-sold individual Mac model, something like 4 years

my IIci takes goddamn forever to cold boot with 128MB of RAM installed though

eschaton fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Oct 30, 2015

Cyberbird
Jul 18, 2015

macsbook pros

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




lol look at those pieces of poo poo


- posted from my iPad Air.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

eschaton posted:

Mac IIci best personal computer of all time

25 MHz 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU
released at a time when most developers were still targeting 8 MHz 68000 hardware so everything loving flew on it, like whatever you tried worked instantly
then the 32KB L2 cache card practically doubled its performance for only a few bucks (later became standard)
up to 128MB of RAM—in 1989!
32-bit clean ROM so System 7 could use virtual memory without hacks
still supported System 6 so old software also ran (unlike its successors)
decent SCSI implementation and minimum OS of System 6 (which added support for 2+ GB disks) so it supported effectively infinite storage

I think it was even the longest-sold individual Mac model, something like 4 years

my IIci takes goddamn forever to cold boot with 128MB of RAM installed though



tbf this sounds epic coming from a guy who had a amiga 500 (68000 with 1mb and floppy disk) and 1200 (68020 2mb and 120mb hard drive)

fpu would be amazing.

that ram amount holy poo poo. in 2000 or so I bought a pc with 768 ram (ony 6x that amount) and it was tons


how much did that fuckin thing cost

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

eschaton posted:

Mac IIci best personal computer of all time

25 MHz 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU
released at a time when most developers were still targeting 8 MHz 68000 hardware so everything loving flew on it, like whatever you tried worked instantly
then the 32KB L2 cache card practically doubled its performance for only a few bucks (later became standard)
up to 128MB of RAM—in 1989!
32-bit clean ROM so System 7 could use virtual memory without hacks
still supported System 6 so old software also ran (unlike its successors)
decent SCSI implementation and minimum OS of System 6 (which added support for 2+ GB disks) so it supported effectively infinite storage

I think it was even the longest-sold individual Mac model, something like 4 years

my IIci takes goddamn forever to cold boot with 128MB of RAM installed though



nice measurements.. like to gently caress it

Antillie
Mar 14, 2015



Best computer is dear leader's computer in best korea. The screen resolution is so high you need a pair of binoculars to see the details.

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


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Lipstick Apathy
there is no single best computer

you have to pick your cpu wattage first

5w macbook
15w macbook air/mac mini
28w macbook pro 13"/mac mini
47w macbook pro 15"/mac mini
65w imac 21.5"/27"
91w imac 27"
130w mac pro

Perplx fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 30, 2015

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

echinopsis posted:

tbf this sounds epic coming from a guy who had a amiga 500 (68000 with 1mb and floppy disk) and 1200 (68020 2mb and 120mb hard drive)

fpu would be amazing.

that ram amount holy poo poo. in 2000 or so I bought a pc with 768 ram (ony 6x that amount) and it was tons


how much did that fuckin thing cost

getting that much RAM back in the day was pretty much impossible, chips weren't dense enough

the IIci that I had in 1990 had 5MB and cost around $5K (US)

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
oh

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Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



they're all pretty good

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