Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 8398425)

Up until about 3 years ago ...

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 8399004)

Windows 7 is an improvement on Vista, but that's like saying that gonorrhoea is an improvement on herpes.

Originally Posted by MarkMC (Post 8399022)

and mac osx is just an expensive version of Linux :p

Originally Posted by JackTheLad (Post 8399093)

with millions of man hours developing the UI and the usability of it.

'Just' :rolleyes:

Its like turning a Ford Model T into a Porsche

JTL

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 8399793)

Ere we go, another thread that decends into Mac V windows.

You'll never agree so why bother arguing ya point.

J

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 8399004)

But you know, pissing contests aside, it doesn't matter what brand of PC you talk about, you'll find someone who's bought a shit one and someone who's never had a problem with them. At the end of the day, if you're sure you're going to get good support, it mostly comes down to the price and operating system.

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 8399004)

Not wishing to disparage your experience, but that's a long time in I.T and my experiences are the polar opposite of yours.

But you know, pissing contests aside, it doesn't matter what brand of PC you talk about, you'll find someone who's bought a shit one and someone who's never had a problem with them. At the end of the day, if you're sure you're going to get good support, it mostly comes down to the price and operating system. Windows 7 is an improvement on Vista, but that's like saying that gonorrhoea is an improvement on herpes.

Originally Posted by Broad Shoulders (Post 8399974)

I find that generally the professional machines are a lot more robust than the consumer machines

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus (Post 8396003)

The better halves Compaq has died and it its off to the shops tomorrow to buy a new laptop. I'm more interested in brand reliability (the Compaq has been shite to be honest) than anything else, as I can sort out the specs myself.

Any horror stories to tell... or laptops that have been working flawlessly since Noah was a lad?


I was thinking HP?

Originally Posted by achanalt (Post 8400042)

why not try Dell you get them direct from Ireland and much cheepness!! and really good quality

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 8400100)

Ok guys, all this talk of warranty and service issues has got me thinking which companies are the leaders in their field. A guy in havey norman told me yesterday that toshiba were excellent.

Your thoughts?

J

Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus (Post 8399795)

Mac users seem to be like Missionary's, out to convert the Windows heathens. :)

Me, I just use Windows 'cos that's what I've always had from work and really couldn't give a stuff what the O/S is.

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle (Post 8400133)

I'm no Mac Missionary. Only had our one for a few days now. My daughter is having a small amount of trouble adapting to the fun things she does. Probably more to do with Habo than anything else. So I had one full free evening on the Mac yesterday.

I like to rip DVD's, and turn them into different formats. The Mac actually left me slightly bemused... if thats the right word. Reason being everything I did with the bloody thing worked straight away.... I'm used to tinkering with programs. I was fairly gobsmacked at the way the unzipping worked so easily.... not so easy to delete files as windows.... but thats probably a good thing. Took me about 1 hour to work out exactly where the things were on the OS. It wasnt all plain sailing though Mac the Ripper wouldnt work with 64 bit Handbrake because of 32bit VLC., but the fix was so easy to find (unlike windows.... again a bit of a letdown or a quantam leap change in the way I'm used to doing things)... and found that If I loaded a program called Fairmount 32bit... then it would work..... and it did about 90 seconds after I found out that Fairmount was the program I should go for... Amazing.

Ripped a 2 hour movie in 45 mins.... a 20 minute improvement on my 2.4 dual core desk top... to a 680 mb MKV file.... also ripped it to MP4v and then converted to AVI for the hell of it (well actually because AVI is the only format that will work on a USB stick in my kids rooms) Sound Synch issue was barely noticeable... possibly less than 1/20th of a second.... so well worth the 3.8gbs of saving over a straight DVD rip. BTW all of this was on the fly.... took me ages/weeks to fix sound synch issues on a dvd fly rip with my Windows PC. (BTW AOA DvD ripper is the way to fix the windows problem)


I think I can get used to this..... but what am I going to tweak now. :blink:

I'm sat here thinking I wonder if Linux would give me the same performance boost on my Desktops.... I've a feeling it would.... tweaking issue over ;)

Probably not quite the right place to post this.... however I bet there are plenty out there that rip DVD's and this honestly is the way to go. Just be prepared for a lot of extra spare time though !



BTW I used Prism to convert to AVI couldnt see the option on Handbrake ...... even though it's supposed to be there ? ..... Twas so easy to find a alternative way though.... very suprising.


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