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I should get into this stuff, I've really been wanting to but I'm broke. Will be employed soon! Less than 6 months WHOO! Actually, I'm a bit terrified Boot camp's gonna suck so bad
So, if a guy wanted to get into some sick programming but still wants to be able to play Overgrowth and a few other games casually... Should he get into this?
I'd probably use a Linux for programming and keep some less-than-sweet PC on the side for games, once I'd actually saved up enough money for that sort of spendiness.

On a side note, I'm going to start looking into cross-platform developing for my game. Just for you, underthedeep! I'm using SFML, so I'm sure there are going to be a good number of conflicts with that. Anyone know a few good resources on using it on a Linux system?

Korban3 wrote: On a side note, I'm going to start looking into cross-platform developing for my game. Just for you, underthedeep!

awwwww yeah

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The fu?... How did we get here from making a computer?

The same way we do in every thread.

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Freshbite wrote:The same way we do in every thread.

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and that's why this is my favorite forum.

Bravo, sir, a splendid summary.

So underthedeep, have you made any decisions yet?

Quick question, I know next to nothing about computers and how to build them but I was thinking about learning at some point soon and building myself a decent PC. What does the motherboard actually affect when building a PC? And what would class a motherboard as "good"? I was always under the impression that the performance of a PC was only affected by the more major components (CPU, GPU and RAM)

Glabbit wrote:Bravo, sir, a splendid summary.

So underthedeep, have you made any decisions yet?

Definitely AMD, definitely a PC. Most likely one of the two first builds with my own funk on it. I do love my Mac, but I don't feel like spending 2.5k on a Mac Pro when I can make a great similar machine for half of the money.

yeah i know, it's my fancy facebook machine!!!!!

howabout those budget build your own pc sites? whats everyones take on those?
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com
http://www.ibuypower.com

Always thought the only decently priced Apple products are the iPods and possibly iPads. iPhones are hundreds and the Mac series are fucking ridiculous! You'll be paying at least £1,000 for a lower mid range machine if you go Mac, whereas the same machine in PC form is about a quarter of that. You're only paying for the little apple on it, which if you ask me is another rip-off because it isn't even a whole apple, some inconsiderate bugger's gone and taken a bite out of it! All in all, although I own and love my iPod and would love to get an iPhone, I only do it because of their admittedly good customer service system and robust OS.

Don't know anything about the apple tv set top boxes so I can't comment, although they also seem to be prohibitively expensive.

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Also Freshbite, thanks for that info, I recently came by a PC (Sister didn't take it with her when she moved away, mine now) and was wondering whether it would be worth throwing a few cheap components in it to make it mildly decent for gaming. I'll hook it up when I can be bothered and put the specs on here if there's anyone who's interested.