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Post by MrCelery on Apr 23, 2007 21:04:08 GMT 10
Anyone out there got any experience setting up a home network (PCs, routers, Ethernet, PS3, etc)?
I've got a new wireless Belkin N1 router with the purpose of connecting up my internet account, 2 x PCs and PlayStation3, but buggered if I can get it to work.
If anyone has some knowledge, I'll expand further.
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Post by Merrinator on Apr 23, 2007 22:41:53 GMT 10
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Post by dibo (pron. "DIB-OH") on Apr 23, 2007 22:51:41 GMT 10
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Post by bakery5 on Apr 24, 2007 0:46:00 GMT 10
Are the Playstation 3 any good?
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Post by marinermick on Apr 24, 2007 8:58:57 GMT 10
had to laugh at the simpsons last night when bart saw an ad for a playstation like device call the K256
he was pissed off because he had a K252 and harassed his mum to give him money for the new version
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Post by brett on Apr 24, 2007 11:17:27 GMT 10
My new iMac kicks arse.
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Post by ~Floss~ on Apr 24, 2007 22:29:47 GMT 10
I had to hold back from saying something very similar when i first read this thread and no-one was game to reply.  |
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Post by MrCelery on Apr 24, 2007 23:02:40 GMT 10
What's an iMac?  iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. |
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Post by MrCelery on Apr 25, 2007 0:12:09 GMT 10
Thanks Merry. I'll get in touch!
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Post by dibo (pron. "DIB-OH") on Apr 25, 2007 10:09:38 GMT 10
What's an iMac? iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. i agree in general principle, but my iPod nano is the duck's nuts. |
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Post by Pete on Apr 27, 2007 19:30:40 GMT 10
What's an iMac? iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. i agree in general principle, but my iPod nano is the duck's nuts. Deaf before you are 50 Dibo. Some folks really have those iPods blasting when they get on the bus. I can hear some of them even tho they are seated halfway down the bus, and I'm driving up front. So many people using those things when they get around, that I get a shock when someone actually replies to my "good morning" as they get on. |
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Post by MrCelery on Apr 29, 2007 10:51:37 GMT 10
What's an iMac? iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. i agree in general principle, but my iPod nano is the duck's nuts. My Creative Zen Vision M is better! |
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Post by marinermick on May 2, 2007 15:51:56 GMT 10
What's an iMac? iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. you have to be joking mac is light years ahead of providing software for design, movie making and management of music i have to use publisher at work for some publications and i nearly put a fist through the screen everytime i have to use it |
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Post by dibo (pron. "DIB-OH") on May 2, 2007 16:34:49 GMT 10
What's an iMac? iAnything gives me the shivers. All style, no substance. you have to be joking mac is light years ahead of providing software for design, movie making and management of music i have to use publisher at work for some publications and i nearly put a fist through the screen everytime i have to use it that'd be because publisher is shite. you should get your work to get adobe CS, just like you would on a mac. then you can actually design stuff, rather than follow dicky little templates supplied by MS... there's scarcely any software popular for macs that you can't get on a pc. the reverse, however, is less true... |
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Post by MrCelery on May 2, 2007 19:16:51 GMT 10
that'd be because publisher is shite. you should get your work to get adobe CS, just like you would on a mac. then you can actually design stuff, rather than follow dicky little templates supplied by MS... there's scarcely any software popular for macs that you can't get on a pc. the reverse, however, is less true... Totally agree there, Dibo. Mick, how did a discussion of hardware end up about software? Nice one!  Don't condemn PC's on the strength of single piece of MS software that I suspect no one uses. Consider the whole package. Also, PC does not = Microsoft, just because 90% of the world runs an MS OS (The other 10% being, Apple 5%, Other %%). The PCs advantage is as Dibo says, a huge availability of non-MS software like Macromedia, Adobe, etc, and a huge choice of hardware options. Yes, iWhatever does do some things quite well, but the days of the 'beige box 'PC are over, and whatever Apple can do, PCs can usually do better,or at least equally well, for a cheaper price, and with greater variety. I've lost count of the number of times that my Apple friends and collegues have said: "But I can't do that on an iMac". |
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Post by brett on May 2, 2007 19:45:28 GMT 10
My Mac at work runs the Adobe suite and all Microsoft office apps much more sweetly than my soon to be junked PC at home. There are programs you can get now that allow you to toggle between Mac OS and MS OS instantaneously so you can run whatever software you want on whatever OS it is easier to use on. Software availability is a non-issue. You can push the button to turn your PC on, make a coffee, chat over said coffee about how great PCs are, sit back down and watch as your desktop finally appears. When you turn a Mac on its on, straight away. Macs dont get viruses. Macs update themselves when necessary. PCs ask you what you want to do and generally ask you stupid questions about most things. Macs are designed from your perspective not from Windows' perspective. And who wants a tower next to their screen these days anyway? Macs other advantage is that the hardware, a lot of the software, your ipod, its all Mac. It all works together and you can go to the same source to make it work if it doesnt. In the end, it comes down to what you want your computer to do. If you live in the year 2007 you are going to want to manage a massive library of music, maintain and edit albums of photos, and do it fast in a user-friendly environment. If you want to play solitaire, help yourself to old mate.  |
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Post by dru on May 2, 2007 20:34:29 GMT 10
Only because most hackers target the more popular microsoft platform. I dare say that if macs were more dominant there would be more viruses for them. Run firefox and don't open dodgy emails and you avoid amazing amounts of viruses too. |
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Post by Effin' and jeffin on May 2, 2007 20:41:28 GMT 10
I couldn't agree more with Brett....
Mac kicks Pc's arse in every area userbility & reliabilty. Look at all the problems with Vista. You have got no issues with drivers, just plug in and play no annoying "new hardware detected" pop up.
Viruses are non existant on a mac
"By the end of 2005, there were 114,000 known viruses for PCs. In March 2006 alone, 850 new threats were detected against Windows. Zero for Mac."
I have worked with Macs for most of my career up until last year due to a job change and much prefer Macs for their speed, the ability to handle cross platform issues such as fonts, all major graphic packages are available on Mac and if not they arent worth using IMO.
Give me a G5 quad core with a 30" Cinema Display anyday..
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Post by MrCelery on May 2, 2007 20:43:47 GMT 10
Macs dont get viruses. And who wants a tower next to their screen these days anyway? Ho hum. A few of the usual old Mac iZealot statements there! No Mac viruses? Bollocks! ;D Rarer than Windows viruses to be sure, but they still exist. Also, viruses are vastly overhyped. I've been in the computer industry since black screens with green text, and I've yet to suffer a virus that has done damage. Towers? - Obviously you've not been near a PC retailer lately then! Eg.:  [/quote] |
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Post by kevrenor on May 2, 2007 21:13:28 GMT 10
Now, now .... we should have just stuck with CP/M and avoided all this! :-)
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