messiahx

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A little dated but runs BF3 almost maxed (AA is low/med) at 1920x1080.





Yes my desk is a $40 folding table. The chair was $140, though. Priorities.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 @ 3.52GHz stable
Asus P5Q Pro Turbo
6GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2
ATI HD6950 @ ~880 core, 1300 mem
3x250GB Seagate something or others from 2007 in RAID 5.
Corsair 850w PSU
Razer Lycosa Keyboard...much win
Logitech MX1000 I think. It's old.

Asus 10" EeePC for the tuning

MSI WindPad 110w currently missing via RMA for exchange. Kind of toying with creating a mount for this in the car. Touchscreen? Big display gauges? Because I can? Yes.

So with all these badass rigs...why is the MT BF3 platoon so small?

aaronc7

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Laptop

i7-2670QM (2.2-3.1 Ghz)
8gb ram
nvidia 570m 1.5gb
1920x1080 res screen
120gb ocz vertex 3 ssd
500gb 7200rpm hd

Joe Perez

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Hehe. Don't feel too bad. My office desk is an old door. (It's a very nice door, and I'm sure it was quite expensive at one time, but it's a door none the less.)

FRT_Fun

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Laptop:
i3
4gb ram
320gb HD

Desktop:
i7 2700k
Gigabyte G1 Sniper2 Z68 MB
SeaSonic X850
G.Skill 4x2 DDR 1866
120GB SSD
GTX 580
2TBx2 Raid 0
NZXT Phantom Case
Logitech G930
Logitech 920
Logitech G9x

Enginerd

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17" Macbook Pro ... 2008 I think

Runs better and cooler than the part-for-part identical PC that I built before switching to a laptop.

PC...HA!

messiahx

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Part-for-part? So you installed the guts of a 2008 Macbook Pro into a tower case?

...Mac users...

/flamesuiton

Enginerd

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Damn! you got me!

Same spec parts, different platforms.

blaen99

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You know, with as much ---- as Macs get, I have to give them serious props for one feature.

An actually useful command line. ---- GUIs. ---- Windows and their GUI-ruled paradigm.

messiahx

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I was more trying to make a point that it was a rather silly comparison. Also, there tends to be mobile and desktop versions of different CPUs. Spec'd similarly but nonetheless there are TDP differences.

My experience with Mac/Unix CLI is about nil. I can stumble around enough in Linux and I used to be mostly proficient in Windows (not that there is much to do). If it's at all like Linux I'd have to agree there.

I've never had an issue with the software on either platform. I think each is capable of doing whatever the user may need today, although Windows has historically been the better gaming platform by a wide margin. I don't like closed hardware and paying a premium for style. As a general rule however, I've usually said that if you want to be productive (business) stick with a Windows platform. Also the Apple commercials. Dirty hipsters get off mah lawn!

blaen99

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If the development tools I need for my profession existed for the Mac, I'd switch over in a heartbeat (Software engineer by trade). A command line is well worth the premium for me.

FRT_Fun

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Plz don't turn this into a OS debate.

Joe Perez

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I am approximately as confused by reading this as I would be if I looked down into the toilet bowl and found that I had just shat out three talking iguanas with strong opinions on EU monetary policy.


Anyway, I guess I should post some specs...

My main desktop PC has a Core i5-750 sitting on an Intel DP55WP motherboard, running at the rated clock speed. 8 GB of RAM, a cheap-**** video card, a 40 GB Intel SSD as the boot volume, a 500 GB Hitachi as the data drive, and a 1 TB Seagate as a backup drive. Nothing super-fancy.

The media machine has some random CPU which I had lying around (I think it's a P4) mounted on a cheap motherboard I bought at Frys, with 2GB RAM, a 300 GB hard drive as the boot volume (I had it lying around), and a 2 TB drive for the video.

The only thing fancy about the aforementioned is that they are extremely quiet. Nothing but low RPM, sleeve-bearing 120mm fans everywhere, including the CPU and power supply.

Le laptop is a Dell E4200. Core2Duo (SU9600) CPU, 5GB RAM, 128GB SSD.

Reverant

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It's shitty. In previous job, I was the sys admin and generic IT guy. Anything from networks to new software development (C++ and SQL). I went from Linux (from '94) to Mac OS in 2003, switched back to Linux in 2004. I couldn't stand it.

TorqueZombie

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New as of today laptop,
Intel i3-2350M
4gb ddr3 ram -might jam another 4 in it later
320gb hard drive
15.6in screen
and a wopping 2 usb ports woooo
My 5yr old one just fried and school hit this week. Couldn't find a better one for less within reason. Don't PC game anymore, thats the 360's job. Just need something that works and doesn't suck for a couple years until school gets crazy.

blaen99

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Wow, this is news to me. I had assumed that considering MacOSX is BSD, it would have at least a BSD-level of CLI ability.

<3 Joe for that comparison, it made me lol IRL. For me, development is optimal if I never have to take my hands off the keyboard. Ever. If I get into a Windows environment, I have to constantly move my right hand back and forth between mouse and keyboard. Given enough time and enough movement, this can actually cause my wrist to start hurting. (Not-so-ninja edit: I.e., (nano/emacs/vi/whatever your poison is) +foo bar.cpp, make, gdb compared to having to move my hand to click on all sorts of ----.)

It's actually physically painful for me to develop in an entirely GUI-based (i.e. Windows) environment compared to *nix/BSD-based.

FRT_Fun

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What brand/model?

Joe Perez

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I understand completely. As someone who grew up in a text-based world, I still spend a lot of time in DOS-boxes, which for some reason seems to astound and confuse my co-workers.

What I meant was that I was surprised to hear someone with your background praising MacOS on the grounds of having a powerful CLI. Admittedly, the last time I was heavily involved in Mac-usage was on the Centris / Quadra machines (running OS 7, if I recall correctly), and my experience with those machines was not a kind one.

I have used the newer machines, but only in an incidental capacity, so I don't have any experience with their CLI. I can't recally having ever seen anyone use it, in fact. Is it really that much better than the DOS implementation in the current Windows builds?

blaen99

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Seriously? GUI-based development is so slow, the only really useful instances of GUI-based development I can think of is for training wheels to learn it... then again, I learned BASIC a loong time ago from DOS CLI, and C from Linux CLI almost as long ago, so I could be biased in that respect since I taught myself from a CLI and not a GUI.

Frankly, I have little experience with the Mac. I know it's based on BSD, and I use the ever-lovin'----- out of BSD (And *nix in general..). As a result, I had (apparently incorrectly, as per Reverant) assumed that Macs had a BSD-like CLI. The only time I ever use a Mac is to test for if code works/compiles correctly cross-platform, then turn it over to QA and the junior programmers to fix my ----.

But better than the DOS implementation in current Windows builds? ANYTHING is better than the DOS implementation in current Windows builds. Windows has a giant hardon for the hatred of CLI for some reason. I'll be lucky if I can launch a (GUI-based) IDE from DOS.

midpack

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OSX does have a fantastic CLI, the only problems with it is that Apple took /etc and fucked it by replacing text files with goofball managers. For some things anyway, fstab being one of them. Being able to 'ssh kevin@your.mom' was one of the reasons my Windows XP laptop got replaced with a MacBook few years ago. ps, awk, grep, kill, and rest the good stuff is still there. If there's anything not included by default it's easy enough to install (DarwinPorts MacPorts)

Keeping somewhat on topic...
Macbook (non-pro) 13"
Intel Core2Duo @ 1.somethingGhz
2GB RAM
~300GB HDD

2Bit

Asus G53JW-A1 Laptop
Intel Core i7 720QM 1.73GHz Auto Overclock as high as 3.33GHz
HM55 Chipset
DDR3 1333MHz came with 6GB Now has 16GB
GTX 460M 1.5GB GDDR5 VRAM
2x 500GB hard drive
15.6" Screen
Sold all gaming consoles and I still like to play once in a while but needed the mobility. So I got this and couldn't be happier. Runs Skyrim, MW3, etc. on highest settings.