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OMG
That Food
The main Mac reason is that I can work much faster on a Mac. I already have a Thunderbolt display, so I won't be buying an iMac - it's mostly a tradeoff between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro
Mainly trying to figure out if the GPUs will make any difference to my work.
Heh, somehow I always end up paying.
Buy Apple laptops, build Hackintoshes for towers. I couldn't be happier with my Hackintosh and I paid half the price. Barely two or three commands to run when I update too, I basically am running on vanilla OS X hardware apart from the motherboard.
And desserts:
You will make me puke, That food looks amazing
I love Baklava.
Ha, if only. I did have one week like that film, when I ran a department for a week. At the end of that week we all decided I should move back to my previous department and remove all evidence of that week from the records.
Incidentally, as the wife is a Northerner, she hates spending money so it's not so bad. It's difficult getting her to pick something that's not off the early bird menu at the Harvester, so I can't complain.
None of these food are really home made food except Mantı which requires hours to make.
A little demonstration:
Not that Northern, she calls herself that but in reality she's from the Midlands.
What GPU and what Mobo?
A Gigabyte something... Z77X-D3H? Something like that. GPU is an Nvidia GTX-680 Ti
Derbyshire.
Everybody loves Baklava
I'd suggest a Hackintosh. I'm using one now, on Ivy Bridge, and it's completely flawless. The only issue is after software updates, you'll likely need to re-run your post-installation utility of choice. Here's a good article on highly compatible hardware from TonyMacX86.
Generally, stick with Gigabyte or MSI for the motherboard and Intel for your processor. I'm using an AMD/ATI 6850 while they suggest using nVidia; I didn't even require additional drivers for mine, even with HDMI audio support, so any video card should work so long as it's relatively new.
This leaves the case, power supply, memory, and hard drives up to you which allows for a lot of visual customization.
Nope, 79XX has massive problems, so does 68XX on Mavericks without patches (GPU BIOS) - No hackint0sh for me yet
I'm sorry, I had to.
Mod edit: oh no you didn't put the N-word up here!
If you don't need a GPU, the main advantage of the Pro vs. Mini is the ability to install more than 16 Gb RAM. You should really wait a little more; the current generation mac mini CPU is outdated, and I expect a refresh soon. Let's hope good news on the 2th june Apple keynote.
If you wanna build a mackintosh just buy an intel processor and nvidia GPU. Both a little pricier but both used in the real hardware so it's pretty plain sailing.
@alexh all I have to do in multibeast is enable the boot loader and load my audio drivers. Everything else, including my wifi card, work out of the box
I'm quite new with Macs, thus far I was fundamentally against Macs (except Big Mac) and frequently call people macfag etc. But I had to use an iMac in my university in Java development lab, and it's actually not that bad, except for the keyboard shortcuts.
So I'm, while not 100% decisive yet, in the market for a Mac as well. From what I can understand, if you want a good Macbook, it's too expensive. Same goes for iMacs as well. So I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini, if I buy an Apple. If you don't need a laptop, it's better than an iMac if you need portability and already have a nice monitor. I like to move around my desktop and sometimes move my desktop to the summer house in the summer as well, so that'll make that easier for me.
Aside from the lack of a video card or whatever those are called today, it seems like a good device. I don't think you'd need a Mac with an add-on video card unless you plan on working on videos. There won't be any issues with watching HD movies etc, and even Photoshop to a good extent. Of course, high resolutions are still possible with capable monitors.
As you know, one thing you can't have with a Mac mini is Retina, unless you buy an Apple Display, which is too expensive mostly. I think 1080 is enough for coding, but I don't really understand the whole Retina deal, like the resolution drops to 1080 if applications are not capable? I'm not well-informed on this particular topic.
Will you buy some other non-Apple laptop if you get an Apple desktop? Don't forget that laptop displays are mostly still 768, although some are 900 and higher-end ones are 1080. Whereas Apples are always 1080 or now also 1080+ with Retina.
What I also consider is an Mac mini Server version. Which is not much more expensive but with some better specs. That could stay up all the time and moonlight as my home server when I'm not using it for other desktop activities. An idea to consider for you. I think I'd go for this if I finally really decide to get a Mac mini.
@kerouac I have one of these with my Hackintosh, works amazing. Those specific ones don't use the cinema displays I don't think but there is one brand out there that was or is using them. They're korean off-brand monitors that companies like Apple don't use because there were a few bad ones in the batch or there's a few dead pixels or whatever. 8 months later it's still perfect with no dead pixels and feels like using a real mac in terms of resolution, screen size etc. 1/4 of the price too!
I know some people love the rotatable ones so they can have a 27in, high def screen with a longer height than width for reading.
I'd never eaten there but stopped at a store today and FG was right next store. So I tried them.
Good but not OMG. Fuddrucker's is still my favorite superburger.
I'd probably buy this, but we don't have it over here, and it would be more expensive probably, since we still have 1080 LEDs for ~ 250 $
Gotta remember I live in the UK, so the quality of burgers here isn't quite on the same level as the US.
So much food porn.
That's not too far off UK prices really lol. You should have a look at monitors from Korea on your local eBay.
@Nekki
For the record, that wasn't the N-word. That was street slang. There's a difference when it ends with an "a" and "er".
Means the same thing, although that meme.. I've got plenty of black friends who laughed at that, because it's funny and we're all immature. ;p