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You can probably count on your fingers the number of 64bit capable games that actually utilise more than 4GB. The extra RAM comes in use for doing other stuff in the background like the OS overhead and so on.

I have 16GB in my system, but that’s because I do a lot of video and graphics work with it too with the occasional game. The RAM is for work, it just happens to live in there while also gaming lol.

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“But I wouldn’t call those people true gamers”

Nope, I’d call them “elitist assholes”. Sadly these people are rather vocal within the PC gaming community so it appears that it’s the majority rather than the minority of us who are such snobbish pricks.

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A couple of my friends (who previously despised Apple and everything they did despite never having used their products, but because they’re gamers they have to hate them. Its kind of the law of the gaming world apparently) bought iMacs for such things. They do a lot of LAN Parties so it’s far more simple to get a monitor carry case and shove your keyboard and mouse in with the power cable and a CAT5E cable with the thing in then just boot into Windows when you get there.

Setting up is simple as hell. Plop on desk, plug power in, hit power button and tada! All you have to plug in beyond that is the ethernet cable if you’re using wireless keyboard and mouse, which they do.

4 days ago on Alienware 14 review

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Steam hasn’t even set the Mac world on fire in terms of gaming so I can’t see Linux having a much better chance. Its great for getting better driver support though, but I really don’t see it becoming a mainstream platform for gaming, or is this year the year of Linux on the desktop?

4 days ago on Alienware 14 review

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You can’t really see the difference, but you can feel it. Higher FPS results in less latency between your reactions and the game doing them. You’re also more precise with things like aiming and so on at a higher frame rate.

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Why should he do all those things? That’s the typical “it’s exactly the same apart from this this and this” kind of argument.

He did it based on what he had and how it’d typically be used. Turning on power saving features reduces performance which is missing the entire point of this thing.

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Bulky, sure. Chunky, Sure. It doesn’t have to be so damn tacky looking though. They can quite easily style it without all those horrendous looking angles that try to mimmic the F117. It looks like something directly from the 90’s with that cheap look and build quality.

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Why are things aimed at gamers SO GOD DAMN UGLY and tacky looking?

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Unless you’re a design agency of some kind or work with/in the stock market I can’t imagine that being a very common set up for most offices. Sounds pretty awesome though! Having said that, I bet most people working there don’t have similar set ups at home, and IT will have actually set the things up so they didn’t have to.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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I’m sure someone will do this. If not they’re missing a trick.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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And thanks to this… everyone now does.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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It kind of reminds me of Calvetica. This isn’t a bad thing lol.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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In my experience Apple’s Maps are a fair bit more accurate than Google Maps, not to mention the satellite images are more up to date lol. I guess it depends where you live. Google Maps sucks outside of the US. In the UK they suck unless you live in London, because as we all know, London is the only place in the UK.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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Microsoft were panned for poor implementation and by not actually improving on the basic functions of the system. Metro is by and large liked, it’s just not exactly as intuitive as it could be. It’s another example of one of Microsofts “good ideas, lacking in execution” moves.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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Apple will win based on a better implementation at the OS level that any and all developers can easily tap into, exactly how they could instantly tap into all of the cocoa changes they made in Snow Leopard with things like Grand Central Dispatch because they coded their software to Apple’s guidelines properly, or how they inherit things like the system wide dictionary and scrolling if they used the recommended text field and scrolling API’s and so on.

The biggest problem with Windows is that many developers (even Microsoft) tend to ignore a lot of the things the OS has and go about doing their own version. Just look at how different the UI elements are in Office and Windows, or a lot of the things that come with Windows itself. The simple fact that Office 2013 has inertial scrolling yet the OS itself doesn’t is another such example of the disconnect between the platform and the software running on it.

OS X benefits immensely from developers making their software to actually be consistent with the OS itself. The vast majority of apps use the OS level UI elements so they gain any and all advantages that come with them such as improved functionality when they’re updated without having to update the app itself (again, the scroll bars and dictionary being an example of this).

Mac developers just seem to make better use of integrating things into the system. Incidentally, the software I have the most problems with on OS X are made by Adobe and Microsoft who insist on doing things themselves lol. I guess it makes sense on one level, but it’s rather annoying on another lol.

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Apple dont’ need to converge, they’re making and building an entirely new platform called iOS that will eventually replace OS X or whatever their desktop OS is at the time. Desktop’s are slowly dying, tablets and other touch based devices will eventually become as capable if not more so than our current desktop/laptops.

Why bother retrofitting an entirely different UX and input paradigm onto a system that is NOT designed for it when you have one that IS designed for it? Microsoft has tried to have both in one, it isn’t working. They should have one or the other. It’s an utter mess right now. Our IT guys at work refuse to deploy it because it’s not worth their time supporting the confusion it causes amongst the less computer savvy staff (who are the sort of people who represent the majority of computer users). They also dislike how many extra steps there are for doing previously simple things.

It’s just meh.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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“True Multitasking” was always there in iOS, it’s just the UI for it wasn’t as obvious. I can almost guarantee that the technical aspect of the multi-tasking is damn near identical to how it was previously, they just have a better UI for managing it now.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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Windows 8 is the 15th major iteration of NT. Linux is pretty much the same thing as the original kernel too. It’s called iteration. It’s called OS X still because it still runs the same fundamental core. I guess you’re one of those people who think a 10.X release is nothing more than a “service pack”, despite each version usually getting 6-8 “service packs” throughout its lifespan.

It’s just a different approach to naming conventions. Apple are far more iterative than Microsoft so you don’t get such massive sweeping changes from one version to the next due to the big time gap between releases.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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So… what about the people who use iOS and OS X? If you’re not using them whey the hell do you care? More competition improves things for everyone. iBooks is a LOT more capable than Kindle, just ask any author who’s used both services which one they prefer for presenting their content. Kindle is a royal mess.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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Jesus christ, people are cheap bastards these days. They’ve done a LOT of stuff under the hood that’s well worth that and more. Most people here will pay more than that on bloody coffee over a couple of days.

8 days ago on Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks ships this fall with tabbed Finder, Maps and iBooks apps

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Of course, they should tailor it specifically around you and your wants and desires.

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Use that then.

8 days ago on Apple announces iTunes Radio, a streaming music service to compete with Pandora 1 recommend

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Indeed. Rather interesting considering a lot of the same people have been whining about the “stale” and “boring” look iOS had up until this point. You can’t win with some people.

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 1 reply 1 recommend

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It’s Helvetica Light. They’ve been using Helvetica for decades. It’s hardly something new. This whole style is hardly new either. You can go back to the 30’s and 40’s to see where this kind of design came from.

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 8 recommends

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And this is exactly what everyone has been bitching and whining for them to do for years. Now they do and people bitch and whine saying it was fine the way it was.

8 days ago on Apple announces iOS 7, 'biggest change' since the introduction of the iPhone, coming this fall 2 replies 8 recommends

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Unless you don’t use a Nokia, which at this point in time is most people.

8 days ago on Apple announces iTunes Radio, a streaming music service to compete with Pandora

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I think this is based on the same system they use for Genius Play lists. It’s based on the playing habits of other real people along with algorithms and the other usual technical jazz.

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The US will get the most content, as usual. They’ll most likely get access to the entire local iTunes Store catalogue in their respective markets, so unless your local market gets a crap selection already you should be fine. Blame the record companies for this by the way.

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I think he’s just looking for something to complain about.

8 days ago on Apple announces iTunes Radio, a streaming music service to compete with Pandora

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You bought a Zune? Well, I guess someone had to.

Also, most of these services are next to non-existent outside of the US, so this iTunes Radio thing is a good thing for us non Americans as Apple tend to have the best deals internationally.

8 days ago on Apple announces iTunes Radio, a streaming music service to compete with Pandora