Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

On Saturday before the game, I'm going to the Apple store to shell out £1000 on an iMac ......convince me why I shouldn't buy one?

 

because you're only paying tha tmuch for a computer because it looks pretty and you get a certain status with it.

Where are you sitting olly?

 

We will be gracing he Itchen corner with our presnce on Saturday, we normally sit in the Kingsland corner but my Dad wants a clear line of sight on Satchel face.

 

What are the specs on it?

 

Have a look at it on tha apple store, it's the 21.5 inch screen that retails at £1099.00

 

Liam Neeson:

"I don't see there being a third movie, she can't be taken again. That's just bad parenting"

 

Bet they will still make a 3rd film, probably something like his daughter gets a bf and he works for the government. He ends up in Dubai with neesons daughter but gets taken by a radical muslim terrorist group. Neeson and his daughter join forces to free him any way possible.

 

I really, really hope they don't make a third. A second was already taking it to far!

 

Same tbh, I think a prequel could be good to show how he learnt his skills etc. But to make just another film would just be stupid.

 

Not a bad idea and I'd certainly prefer it to a third! But Neeson makes the films, and presumably if it were a prequel to Taken, learning his very particular set of skills etc., then it would probably have to be played by a younger actor?

 

Talking of films. Has anyone seen Warm Bodies? Any good?

 

Taken was a great movie, there was just one thing I didn't buy. His daughter is following U2 around Europe. She's 18 not 80.

 

Nope seen a few trailers for it and it looked good until the lovey dovey crap.

 

Looks like the one with an 2.7GHz i5 processor and 8 GB RAM? If so, you ought to be able to do better in the price range you're looking at, IMO. For one thing, the one I'm seeing has a pretty middling graphics card (GeForce GT 640M 512MB); with a screen that large, you're going to have to set the resolution at a rather sub-optimal level to get solid performance out of it. For £28 more, you could get this, which is a Windows 8 (boo) i7 PC with twice the RAM, three times the HDD, a better GPU, and a 21.5" external monitor. It'll handle most anything for quite a few years, and it's a hell of a lot easier to keep current, as well, unlike the all-in-one.

Also, I didn't realize how big of a difference there was in pricing between Canada and the UK. The same computer retails for the equivalent of £835 here.

 

A decent middle ground film to see with the gf then. She gets romance. I get Zombies.

 

Which would you get of the 28 North Korean approved haircuts?

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20130223000071

 

Balotelli has commissioned a statue of himself in iron man pose for his garden. Men here commission statues of themselves as well...we just call them gnomes.

 

Spend the same money on a desktop/tower PC and get double the power and capability. Or spend it on a Windows laptop and get almost double the power and capability, but without the desktop/tower's upgradability, flexibility, ease of repair, ease of use and a host of other things. You won't catch me buying a laptop and you certainly won't catch me with an Apple product. You're falling into the marketing trap that Apple have set for you. Don't be fooled.

 

£1000 would buy an incredible PC. I'm going to save up for a properly good one, and never buy a ****ty, unreliable laptop again.

Does anyone on here have any experience with using an SSD instead of an HDD?

 

I'll do the same as soon as I'm settled in one place - in uni I do a lot of moving so need to take my laptop with me. Will hopefully save up for a proper PC after, though.