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    Super Moderator Feedback Score 2 (100%) h2s's Avatar
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    Updates Coming Soon

    Hey Swole Members,

    There have been requests for some updates and changes that have been pushed to the side due to my computer giving it's lasts breaths lately. I have been needing an update for quite some time, and everytime I get involved in a new project have become frustrated at hangups and crashes. I have finally ordered my new computer, which should be shipping today. I look forward to being able to pick up some of these to-do projects after I become familiar with the new computer's enviornment.

    One of the first projects will be the additional theme for the site for those who have stated they do not like the dark appearance.

    As a PS for Burly, as much as I have stated my discontent for Apple, I think my new Macbook will suit me well.

    Thank you for hanging in there and helping this site grow,

    -h2s

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    Quote Originally Posted by h2s View Post
    Hey Swole Members,

    There have been requests for some updates and changes that have been pushed to the side due to my computer giving it's lasts breaths lately. I have been needing an update for quite some time, and everytime I get involved in a new project have become frustrated at hangups and crashes. I have finally ordered my new computer, which should be shipping today. I look forward to being able to pick up some of these to-do projects after I become familiar with the new computer's enviornment.

    One of the first projects will be the additional theme for the site for those who have stated they do not like the dark appearance.

    As a PS for Burly, as much as I have stated my discontent for Apple, I think my new Macbook will suit me well.

    Thank you for hanging in there and helping this site grow,

    -h2s
    lol... you're gonna love that MacBook, bro. Certainly more money than an off-the-discount-shelf Toshiba, but worth it every day in my book. Congrats on the new machine.
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    Yep, I suffered so much down time on a PC I've recently also bought a Mac. I don't like the lack of upgradeability (is that a word?), but they tend to be much more stable than PC's. Trouble with buying 'new' PCs off the shelf is that some of the components might be a year or so old, so it's like a new unused PC but with some new and old components, (this was true of a HP I bought a while ago).

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    Gah, you bunch of sellouts.

    I still have my first laptop from when I was in college a good 8 years ago and it's still taking names and kicking ass.
    If you can bench more than you can squat, you're doing it wrong!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobalt View Post
    Gah, you bunch of sellouts.

    I still have my first laptop from when I was in college a good 8 years ago and it's still taking names and kicking ass.
    You could go buy a $400 laptop right now and be amazed by the warpspeeds that it moves at. My computer cost me $400... I don't really need to do much with it. I invested in a very nice 23" monitor, though. I stare at it all day, might as well make it nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobalt View Post
    Gah, you bunch of sellouts.

    I still have my first laptop from when I was in college a good 8 years ago and it's still taking names and kicking ass.
    gah, cause you're an IT guy

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    Quote Originally Posted by DJM View Post
    gah, cause you're an IT guy
    I just know how to take care of my stuff
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    I also use PCs, but for music audio editing, Macs have the edge. PCs can also do audio editing, but too much down time ruins creative flow. Problems that plague people running music software on PCs just doesn't happen on Macs, well, pretty much.

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    Re: Updates Coming Soon

    Quote Originally Posted by Cobalt View Post
    Gah, you bunch of sellouts.

    I still have my first laptop from when I was in college a good 8 years ago and it's still taking names and kicking ass.
    I'm going to guess you've had to do a fair amount of things in order to keep it going that long. Most consumers neither have the knowledge nor skill to keep a pc running that long. Feedback I get from most people is 2-3 year life on a pc.

    My MacBook Pro is in year seven and handles everything I throw at it... no virus protection, no repairs. I spent a bundle on it. Bought a used identical one for my wife 3 years later and both are running flawlessly.

    I understand the tech guy arguments, and don't disagree really. But even though I taught myself how to program computers in 3 languages back in the 80s, when I come home at night, I just want something that will seamlessly run the programs I use and be easy to navigate as a user while being a rock-solid, non-crashing platform to run it from. Unix stability rocks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobalt View Post
    Gah, you bunch of sellouts.

    I still have my first laptop from when I was in college a good 8 years ago and it's still taking names and kicking ass.
    I totally get the benefits of a more open PC platform than offered by Apple. I actually am a huge Apple critic, as evident by my joke to Burly. The fact that I can't upgrade my macbook at all (it is a retina, with ram and ssd soldered in place) is annoying as hell. However, I purchased one that I cant foresee a need to upgrade for quite some time.

    Quote Originally Posted by BBG View Post
    You could go buy a $400 laptop right now and be amazed by the warpspeeds that it moves at. My computer cost me $400... I don't really need to do much with it. I invested in a very nice 23" monitor, though. I stare at it all day, might as well make it nice.
    Quick is relative. The macbook I bought as a 2.7 quad core i7, 16gigs of ram, and an all SSD storage system. There isn't much competition available at that level of performance in a laptop, particularly one that isn't a bulking gaming laptop.

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