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Build Your Own Mac With CoreCrib Kit
Mark Dobie writes "I just put up a quick review of the CoreCrib kit I purchased. It is an inexpensive solution to building your own Mac." See our previous Core coverage.
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Well I'm glad that you're able to play your games on your Apple, but there's people with serious work to do with their machines. If they're not doing anything very CPU/GPU intensive and the Apple's what they prefer working on, so be it. I'm not Applebashing here, I'm just saying that building your own is not the right solution. If you're going to buy last-generation hardware, at least get good support and some software to satisfy those bearded-terminal-hacker cravings.
And I hope you didn't literally throw out that XP machine. I'm sure there's someone who could have given it a better home. I've found that running a legitimate copy of XP with proper signed drivers gives perfectly fine stability.
And yet you're the same sort of person who if I said I didn't like Lord of The Rings 2: Elrod Strikes Back or whatever you people's favorite movie or music (The System is Down?) is, after 15 minutes, you'd be all "you didn't give it a chance".
Why don't you ask that question once you gain a little experience, kid? At least the other replier had used both. For games, maybe, but still better than judging your opinion on how distracted by Junkyard Wars you were while it booted up.
I'd already moderated one post, but I just had to reply..
I've an off the shelf Maxtor hard drive in my older iMac; naturally, there's no room for three of them, but a PowerMac could hold them. You can also use PC USB mice and even keyboards with a Mac if you wish, though I'd recommend a Mac keyboard since there's a FEW differences in the keys used. The PowerMacs also have AGP for video cards, though you may need a firmware upgrade to use yours with a Mac; ATI's site should have more info on that.
Apple has only really fallen behind lately in raw CPU performance, and since they've sometimes been ahead in the past, they might pull ahead in the future again. Since my 3+ year old G3/400 CPU meets all of my needs, if not all of my wants, I don't think it's a big issue unless you're in a business where your CPU speed affects the amount of money you make.
"Common Sense Ain't" -Unknown
I appreciate your response, but I think you're taking what I said at too much of a kneejerk reaction. I never said the operating system was bad, nor the support. Those are credits I gave to Apple in my post, and I think that it speaks for itself that there are still a handful of diehard Apple users because of these reasons, despite the hardware issues.
Darwin is a token attempt at putting an open source face on, at best, and at worse (and likely), is an attempt to get some free code from the community to roll into their own projects. When there are more than a couple of dozen people using Darwin on a daily basis as a desktop or production server, then call me back.
Ever tried dragging the IE window around during a windows update scan?
Doesn't seem to have any problems on my machine with that... perhaps your system isn't quite up to par for XP, or you upgraded your video drivers to UNSTABLE and UNSIGNED versions so you could get a frame per second extra playing as the orcas or whatever in Warcraft III.