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    • G Offline
      Glenn at home
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      Yes, I spend a lot of time on my computers too. I do like to look at pretty items so I have nice looking desktop images and such when my main applications are not open. My 5 year old Dell at home runs just fine. Probably going to replace this year just to use newer PCIe video cards, faster ram and such. I'll give the Dell to my 9 year old. He likes to draw with SU like his old man 😉
      As I said to each their own

      @double espresso said:

      @unknownuser said:

      Hmm, since one cannot measure "pretty" and "ugly" I'll leave that up to the individual. Both are tools to get a task done. I guess when my desktop needs to be pretty under my desk that will matter 😒 or when I care how pretty the case is. To each their own.
      I guess people go to the hardware to get a pretty hammer 😉

      As a designer I spend a lot of time with my computer and it is important to me that it looks cool. Of course, if my Macs were a source of frustration, I would change, but, they provide everything I need in a beautiful package. Sure, I've had my moments over the years when I wanted to throttle Apple, but, when it all shook out, there was no real viable alternative.
      When I cook, I use nicely designed knives and if I was a carpenter... Nice hammer, Mike.

      On the topic of Mac vs Pc, well, when I was a kid the big fight was Ford vs Chevy.
      Things never change.
      You only pass this way one time.

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        Glenn at home
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        @dale said:

        Although it may be an Urban Myth, at the meeting that took place after Microsoft's announcement of Windows release, Gates apparently after sitting through a tirade by the angry Jobs was supposed to have said: " Well Steve, I think it's more like we both had a rich neighbour named Xerox, and when I broke in to steal his TV set, I found you had already stolen it."

        Windows and Mac desktop flashback

        Wasn't this made up for that movie "Pirates of Silicon valley"

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        • jeff hammondJ Offline
          jeff hammond
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          finally decided to try out kerkythea via X11

          so that's what windows looks like?!
          feels like the 80s and dot matrix printers...

          app seems nice though..

          dotdotdot

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
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            re: this thread
            http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17082&start=0

            i assumed windows had already stolen this trick from os x but apparently not.. oh well windows users, maybe someone can write a ruby that will do this inside of sketchup (though it works with all apps on macs)

            dotdotdot

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              Anssi
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              Out of curiosity I went today through all the Mac options available at the Mac e-store (through their Finnish pages). I was happily surprised to find that Apple seems to have trashed all its lowest-end graphics options, and all the models available (including the Mac Mini and all the Imacs and laptops) now had Nvidia graphics, so in theory you should be able to run SU on any Mac now on sale.

              Anssi

              securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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                linea
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                @unknownuser said:

                As for a desktop...I couldn't care less what it looks like as long as it does it's job. I'll bet that most people don't even notice their tower boxes

                A friend of mine works for a small printshop in London. When Imacs first came out they had a surge of silly airy-fairy enquiries coming in off the street presumably because people walking past the shop, saw the imacs through the window and thought "wow they must be cool".

                I'm really on the fence on this topic as in the past I've used and worked fine on new macs, old macs, good pcs, crap pcs and pcs so old I had to stoke them with coal. They all got the jobs done.

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                • Mike LuceyM Offline
                  Mike Lucey
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                  Hey! if you zoom that video, it looks like Jackson was driving! Jackson! how could you 😄

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                    Jackson
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                    I promise it wasn't me, I have an alibi- I was at home all day doing a full system restore. 😆

                    Jackson

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
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                      Sure... Full system restore... We know how that is!
                      😉

                      Gai...

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                        Ecuadorian
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                        Car smashes through a Mac store and vindicates Windows users:

                        http://i.gizmodo.com/5163917/car-smashes-through-a-mac-store-and-vindicates-windows-users

                        -Miguel Lescano
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