Though weird, I thought it would be an interesting idea to post screenshots of what we're doing on our computers at the moment.

Some Really Awful Research Happening

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Why is Gweep doing the same thing I'm doing? Is he in my head again?

Cant post what I was doing
Was Watching the naked Amy cam

Rule 34

I was going to stipulate that condition in my original post, but I decided to be trusting of everyone's good nature instead.

Hey I played nice, I didnt post pictures of what I was doing !!

That's good. Keep up the good behavior and we might get the doctor to stop the shock treatments soon.

Homewok and Disk Utility all beautifully spread out with Exposé. Nothing better than Mac OS X.

Quit studying my brain from the shock treatments !!!!!
As I am NOT a school project
Find the watch in there and you found what makes me tick

Meds time

You guys aren't coming into the bathroom with me so I won't post what I'm doing.

Spray might be into that, but I'm not.

If she's sitting down , NO , but if she's going into the shower, then YES! YES !YES !

Orally , Rectal , or intravenously ?

All three we will all administer something at the same time so you feel good.

I like to be DR. FEEL GOOD

Rule 34 lives

Is this rated for adults?

Bend over spray :evil:

If it's lipid soluble, you'll like it rectally. How about some Xanax up the butt? I think you'll thank me when the woo-woo feelings wear off.

Almost ready for the conference presentation

empty your TRASH can Joseph

And what the heck are you doing with Microsoft Office? Nobody pays for that crap anymore. Openoffice, NeoOffice, or iWorks. Your not a good fan boy

The rest of the world uses Office, and I need to communicate with the rest of the world. Thus, I use Office. iWork is too basic and OpenOffice is slow and has an ugly UI.

NeoOffice is prettyer

Office 2011 for Mac is actually quite good, in my opinion.

Thats what I hear but I just don't have the funds to shell out for office since I rarely use it to its full potential at home and I've NEVER paid for office LOL I'm still using Office XP on the windows partition

It's very fast and stable, which is something Office 2008 never was. And since I do use it to nearly its full potential, I think it's worth the $149.

But MS will only let you run it on ONE computer for that price. I have 2 and Tom has two. If we could run it on our main computer and our own personal laptops we'd buy two licenses for that price which would be 300 for a program we rarely use. They do have a license where you can buy for 3 computers but when you add the cost of that plus the cost of the extra single license your at darn near 500 dollars for a rarely used program that has FREE alternatives. I'm not a genius by any means but I know better than to throw money like that away. Microsoft needs to start realizing people do own more than one computer and that their software is overpriced and figure out a reasonably priced volume based solution. Its also another reason I abandoned MS besides that Vista blemish they have. Apples may cost more in the beginning but they quickly make up for that price difference by not treating everyone like criminals
I actually think 300 for 4 computers is more than fair for office , especially since we rarely use it, since I do agree Office is nicer than the free alternatives and I think that 300 is being more than generous. But MS would rather price themselves out of competition. Software programmers do earn their pay but they need to be reasonable about it.

The same can be said about the outrageous prices apple charges for their computers amy. Or should I not bring that subject up?

Office Home and Student can be installed on up to three PCs
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msst...26300/list.true

The entry iMac costs $1,199, and so does the MacBook Pro. MacBooks start at $999. A maxed-out iMac is under $2,500. Those prices are in line with quality-constructed PCs like Alienware. And by the time you add an equivalent monitor to a Dell, along with security software, photo software, video-editing software, and sound editing software, you have met or exceeded the price of an iMac. Remember that all Macs ship with iLife included in the price, and that security software is not needed. Also take into account that our customer service and support is still inside the U.S., with people who are understandable and pleasant.

Cool, the display at Microcenter said that only was for one. Good to Know. The guy was trying to sell us a box for 3 computers and charge us 250. Maybe what he was pushing wasn't the Home and Student. I got turned off by the price and didn't look further

Well I'm not going to debate mac vs pc prices. I don't think there'd be much difference if you used the EXACT same components and provided the EXACT SAME customer service. Besides I personally feel Macs last longer. I've had the same macbook, tom has too, since 2006 early 2007 and they still run like they are new. Very few people with windows laptops can say that. Too often they cheap out and buy the lowest specs or those stupid underpowered netbooks and expect to do way too much with them.

I agree about Apple computers lasting longer. My iMac was $2,200 with everything but the kitchen sink, and it still runs like a top. I've had it since 2008, and it has gotten me almost through undergrad. I expect it to see me through at least half of grad school, as well.

I agree with you Amy that most folks by cheap computers thinking they will last them a long time.

I know my other computer lasted 7 years before I ended up replacing it.

Also as for josephs statement about comparing macs to alienware computers is plain foolish as Alienware computers are mostly gaming machines and I went out and bought a pc from best buy with 8 cores for cheaper then a mac or alienware computer and I am pretty sure that it will last me a lot longer then 7 years for what I do with it. Alienware computers are nice and all but too expensive unless your a hard core gamer.

Mostly the reason I think apple is so expensive is why levis were so expensive in the past. It all comes down to name brand. Apple guards its product with a lot of care while PC's are being made by everyone and his brother If there was only one pc maker in the world then I am sure it would be the same as them and charge higher prices and they would probably be more stable like the apple computers as well, etc.

But since we have multiple pc makers it keeps the cost down since they don't use standard parts. Hence that is why I can buy an 8 core machine with loads of ram and a super video and sound card while trying to get that on a mac equivalent is next to impossible unless they changed things since I last looked at mac computers

A Mac Pro can be ordered with up to 2 six-core Xeon processors and 64GB of ram. That's more computer than any home user needs. The Mac Pro starts at $2,499, but gets very expensive when you start trying to build it into some super computer.

I just configured a Mac Pro with the most expensive hardware options available, and it was a whopping $11,899.00.

Dang that is crazy for a computer Joseph Did you actually pay for it or just configure it and what did you get for that price if I may ask?

By the way, I am not a total apple hater as I do own an ipod mini as well as a 60 gb ipod video and I use itunes more then media player for mediafly.com and to make smart playlists with

I currently have a mac mini, it does all I want well, I can even use photoshop to edit photos, the problem there lies in my lack of photoshop skills. I think its enough computer for me, would I like one thats all maxed out? Heck Yeah but I think its getting to the point where processor speed is meaning less and less. There is a point when a computer is good enough and I can't afford to keep up with the Joneses nor do I feel the need too. We have two windows machines here we are getting fixed up and I shudder to hear them start up. Too noisy I don't miss that sound.

For Amy and Joseph in case they missed it
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humancentipad

Good Lord, no, I did not buy that! I just wanted to see what the most expensive Mac would cost. Not even a really geeky home user needs that much power. That Mac Pro would have been for animation or photo studios doing some very heavy design work, or a science program doing some really heavy-duty modeling.

So even maxed out it's not for games then That leaves most people with the choice of PC then

I don't game, so I don't know if this is good or not. The graphics card options were as follows.

ATI Radeon 5770 1GB
2 ATI Radeon 5770 1GB
ATI Radeon 5870 1GB

That's pretty good for a graphics card as I myself use 1 ATI Radeon 5770 1GB card

Thats bogus , I have a $900 10 year old ibook G4 that still works , and a guy at work has purchased 5 $300-500 windows laptops in the same time period because they have went kapoot so wheres the bargain ?
I rest my case

spray you know darn well that those 300-500 dollar computers are trash and basically shovel ware to people who can't afford a good computer or that are buying a computer for the first time

BY GOD we will turn you into an APPLE lover some day Trall !!!!!!

Tral don't do fruit, only nuts

Seems I'm always on the outside looking in.

You dont want to go down THAT rabbit hole
Oh and I want that aluminum all polished out like a mirror while your at it !!!

Did you put those purddy welds on that ?

Listening to Bowie on the Ipod I do some fruity products once in a while

Listening to tech news today and becoming more and more antisocial as time goes by

My pitiful Saturday night...