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I thought it would be funny to ask everyone here to tell their raziest/funniest story that illustrates the problems PCs have. I will start: I once had a desktop Shuttle PC literally catch fire while playing Half Life 2. LMAO
novicew said:This is not so funny but tells it all.
When I first got my iMac, I have decided to measure the time it takes to boot and compare with the PC(XP Pro installed). Both were equipped with 1 GB of RAM and 2.1 GHz. Here is the result.
iMac - 32 Seconds
PC - 220 Seconds
novicew said:This is not so funny but tells it all.
When I first got my iMac, I have decided to measure the time it takes to boot and compare with the PC(XP Pro installed). Both were equipped with 1 GB of RAM and 2.1 GHz. Here is the result.
iMac - 32 Seconds
PC - 220 Seconds
kaidomac said:The first two computers I ever built had problems right off the bat, so I took them in to get fixed and ended up with a repair bill for $498. At the time I had just graduated high school and $500 was about how much I made in an entire year; I got a job specifically to buy the parts for my own computer and worked hard for 6 months to get it (built one for me and one for my dad as a gift).
I vowed never ever to take my computers to a computer repair store again and so I learned computer hardware inside and out. It wasn't funny then but it's sure funny now; I actually just found that receipt the other day while moving. It still makes me cringe! I chipped the core on my Duron processor and fried the motherboard on my Athlon system with static. I am now a PC master, can build and repair anything under the sun, and own a Mac. Go figure
wicker_man said:I was quite suprised at the boot times of my Mac running Panther and 1 year old laptop running XP MCE2005:
Laptop (AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512mb ram) = 85 sec
Mac (iMac G3 DV 400MHz, 640mb ram) = 86 sec
This from pressing the power button to being usable. The laptop does have a 4200rpm hard drive (as opposed to 7200rpm in iMac) and 128mb less ram, but it shouldn't make much of a difference.