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macs are good if you have very specific software needs (ie Final Cut, Logic Pro) but unless you're getting one for those specific use cases you're massively overpaying for what you get you can get a windows laptop with equivalent specs to a current MBP for literally half the price ($2k for mac vs $1k for windows) without having to go into "gamer laptop" bullshit
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It's good to make sure you're seen using the right type of computer, and not the bad type of computer (Soy, bolshevism, etc)
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Aug 1, 2020 01:26
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Aug 1, 2020 01:37
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Whoa, whoa, whoa. World Class Leaderboard with commentary? I can't imagine it without the commentary, it's what it was most remembered for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW4LL6f9xmE
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Aug 1, 2020 01:57
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spaceblancmange posted:I can't imagine it without the commentary, it's what it was most remembered for I just had this boring thing instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0W7RT-Yp9E
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I don't care bout golf in real life but I feel like it should be a bigger video game...thing. As well as mini golf. Maybe it is. I don't play video games much these days.
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There are a fair amount of golf games, some serious and some not.
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Aug 1, 2020 03:22
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I have a top of the line XPS15 from work and a seven year old MacBook Pro and I only use the Dell when someone is paying me to. Just saying.
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Aug 1, 2020 03:51
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Can people defining themselves by the products they buy (or don't) be the obsolete technology now?
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i will say that the other end is that, with a mac, you can pretty much just buy whatever the current macs are and they'll work fine for whatever you want to do with them, because there's only one manufacturer and they don't have any SKUs that are really lovely. whereas if you just go buy some random windows laptop at walmart or best buy or whatever, odds are pretty solid it's going to be an absolute pile of poo poo that no sane person would ever use, and you actually have to pay attention to specs to get a good one. and even then, different brands have wildly varying build quality, pre-installed crapware, etc etc. but as a brokeass, it frankly seems worth it just because you save like a thousand loving dollars buying an equivalent windows laptop compared to the mac. it's not really a brand loyalty thing for me, i'd happily buy a mac if they didn't charge insane prices or if i needed FCP or Logic for something; it's more a "holy loving poo poo that's a lot of money" thing.
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I like it when windows laptops have like a 5mm silver coloured plastic bezel surrounding the touchpad which features both a discrete Scrolling Area and a weird integrated loose dpad looking thing that you will never ever use, and also a row of mushy media playback/volume control buttons above the keyboard, which all cease to function entirely if you disallow the manufacturer's crapware from starting on boot and eating 20% of your cpu at all times
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AntherUslessPoster posted:You guys seriously need to be shown this pic Oh good, it's only ironic homophobia, that's okay then  /SARCASM The Ape of Naples posted:I don't care bout golf in real life but I feel like it should be a bigger video game...thing. I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_golf_video_games and it seems to have a lot of games  Golf for Workgroups looks like fun. It's multiplayer and you also get to screw around with the golf carts.I remembered that I used to have Atari 2600 Miniature Golf, which apparently came out in 1978, the same as the oldest game on that Wikipedia list.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Packard-Bell, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Nokia, Unisys, IBM, Commodore, Osborne, Olivetti, Siemens were the real PC brands when I were a lad.
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tribbledirigible posted:No brands, no masters. *gasps*
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The Ape of Naples posted:I don't care bout golf in real life but I feel like it should be a bigger video game...thing. Golf games like Links were pretty big in the 90s. The boomers game of choice on the office PC.
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Mario Golf 64 was the pinnacle of golf games
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I just had this boring thing instead. Man, look at that smooth animation, stunning 3-D realism and crystal clear sound. The C64 remains the king of both game consoles and computers.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:macs are good if you have very specific software needs (ie Final Cut, Logic Pro) but unless you're getting one for those specific use cases you're massively overpaying for what you get i've always been a PCS ARE SUPERIOR TO MACS, IDIOT guy until i tried doing stuff with midi a mac Just Works and i can plug crap in and have it work immediately without farting around with asio for 3 and a half hours
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ASIO, now that's a name I've not heard since 2005
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:but as a brokeass, it frankly seems worth it just because you save like a thousand loving dollars buying an equivalent windows laptop compared to the mac. it's not really a brand loyalty thing for me, i'd happily buy a mac if they didn't charge insane prices or if i needed FCP or Logic for something; it's more a "holy loving poo poo that's a lot of money" thing. yeah theyre just obscenely expensive and i dont get it any more than i get people who buy a brand new car instead of just a used one
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Last Chance posted:Mario Golf 64 was the pinnacle of golf games no man its GOLF for NES, the first one. thats the ultimate golf game.
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spaceblancmange posted:I can't imagine it without the commentary, it's what it was most remembered for Exactly! 30 something years on and "Looks like he... hit the tree, Jim." is still a catchphrase in my family. Shibawanko posted:no man its GOLF for NES, the first one. thats the ultimate golf game. The correct answer is Desert Golfing, the only golf game that makes you aware of the futility of life.
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Hal's Hole in one Golf for the SNES was perfection.monolithburger posted:Exactly! 30 something years on and "Looks like he... hit the tree, Jim." is still a catchphrase in my family. Haha, same!
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Aug 1, 2020 10:41
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Switch sequel to Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf when
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have you considered that <brand i like> is cool and good while <brand you like> is a cold plate of poo poo ?
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Weatherman posted:have you considered that <brand i like> is cool and good while <brand you like> is a cold plate of poo poo ? Typical <brand i like> fanboi. Not recognising the superiority of <brand you like>. You're basically Hitler.
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 During the lockdowns I have slowly been building up a HIFI setup Picked up this Pioneer PD-F605 25 disc player today. It works well other than the bottom door falls open as the return spring is missing and the VFD is very faint on it. I'll probably pull apart an old 3.5" floppy drive and steal its spring for the return. The VFD I don't know what to do there, might call a local electronics repairer and see if something can be fixed there or it just stays as it is. The amp is a Yamaha A520, brought it from the original owner. I have my mum's old late 60s/early 70s JVC record player, but it needs some work as even though it has a new belt and stylus, it still wants to just skip all the way to the end of the record.
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You Am I posted:
Those tone settings trigger me. I also know they probably sound fine.
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Shibawanko posted:am i correct in thinking that the current offering of laptops kind of suck? buying a decent laptop seems to be so much more expensive than it was 5 or 6 years ago. i have a lenovo g580 and it still functions okay and that i bought for roughly 400 euros in 2015, now im looking at 700 euros for what seems like similar performance and features Laptops are a bit overpriced right now because when big corporates switched to home working at the start of the pandemic, companies were buying up laptops wherever they could find them and individuals were frantically trying to get them too whether to work from home themselves or to try and flip for profit, so the price got jacked up a bit by that.
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You Am I posted:
I can just feel that image. Stereo equipment like that always has this unique tactile experience when touching it.
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twistedmentat posted:I can just feel that image. Stereo equipment like that always has this unique tactile experience when touching it. Usually because the grounding is leaking to the case at some bad connection. 
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twistedmentat posted:I can just feel that image. Stereo equipment like that always has this unique tactile experience when touching it. I miss detented pots.
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tribbledirigible posted:No brands, no masters. I'd like to get my hands on an old G3 Power Mac minitower just for nostalgia's sake.
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tribbledirigible posted:No brands, no masters. This is at least two brands.
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90s Solo Cup posted:I'd like to get my hands on an old G3 Power Mac minitower just for nostalgia's sake. Same so I can play Deus Ex.
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Aunt Beth posted:You bought a Compaq if you wanted Compatibility And Quality without shelling out for an IBM! Both cost thousands of marks so
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FBS posted:This is at least two brands. What's more hipster: a Mac running Windows or a whitebox running MacOS?
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Weatherman posted:What's more hipster: a Mac running Windows or a whitebox running MacOS? Knowing what "whitebox" means.
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I have fond memories of Microsoft Golf - it was slightly boring as a game, but even as a ten year old I found it kind of pretty and relaxing (and technically super impressive) - and there was something magical about messing a bit with a CD and a computer and actually getting a semi-3D interactive view of a real place. Version 1 or 2 - the disc for 2 looks very familiar with its Multimedia Computer branding, but the videos of 1 look slightly more familiar. I guess I can grab images of both from the internet archive and compare.
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