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BTW, Macs are Awesome.
Oh hi. I forgot to mention. Macs are awesome. Your next computer should be a Mac, assuming you just want a computer where you can do general average day to day stuff and Get Things Done.
If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.
However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.
Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.
See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html
He says it better than I do.
If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.
However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.
Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.
See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html
He says it better than I do.
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The only problem is that Apple (or nvidia) broke the drivers in 10.5.3 and still haven't released a fix, so WoW at least performs... well, when it's working you're seeing a lovely smooth world with the knobs turned to 11, when it's not it crawls, and I've yet to figure out what triggers that...
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If you do find out I would love to know! It came with WoW 2.4 (which might have been coincidentally OSX 10.5.3 as well) and it is driving me balmy. I jsut cant figure it out. I have gone back to a PC to play as it is just a bazillion times better till this issue is resolved.
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I'm tempted to try running WoW under Crossover.
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Fix to WoW graphics glitch introduced in 2.4
This was driving me insane, but I have managed to fix it with two things.
I installed smcFanControl (http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/software/software.html), this is a small app that runs in your menu bar of OS X. It allows you to set the speed of your fans. I increased my ODD fan to 2000rpm instead of the default 600.
I also used the following command in WoW.
"/script maxFPS 35"
This sets your maximum fps at 35, which is good enough that I can't see any real difference between this and the 70 I used to get before I started getting the overheating. One side effect of this is when WoW hits the 35fps cap, it actually increases quality a little rather than trying to get the extra fps. I have noticed water translucency and terrain detail are slightly better since I did this.
It is annoying that I needed to fix this with a 3rd party fan speed control program. But it works, and I have not had a problem with it since, even when heavily using Exposé and raiding :D
Re: Fix to WoW graphics glitch introduced in 2.4
Re: Fix to WoW graphics glitch introduced in 2.4
Blizzard are saying that 10.5.5 also fixes it, but there have been enough "10.5.5 completely broke WoW!" posts that I'm a bit leery and will hold off until I find some compelling reason to bother.