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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
I'm not sure why you inferred that from the data provided. My time is valuable to me in all regards, whether it be in work or leisure pursuits.
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Well, so many people make this argument as a reason for not doing something, but to me it just makes it sound like work consumes them.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
I build robots, which is one of my hobbies (building computers is NOT, since it's essentially a glorified lego set requiring almost no specific skill-sets and hardly any intellect). I hardly think that it's beyond the scope of my abilities.
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I never suggested it was difficult, in fact I stated otherwise in other threads related to this topic. You could have just as easily said though that you could build it yourself if you wanted, but you didn't. You stated that you could pay any idiot to do it for you which suggests that you are incapable of building one yourself.
By the way, are EEPPROMs still used for robotics? I used to dabble in that a while back, not specifically in robots but close enough.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
I'm not implying that I *would* pay someone to do this for me. If you offered me a PC with Mac OS X on it for $1, or a genuine Mac at the customary Apple price, I am going to choose the one with the warranty and official support included every time. This is just part of how I streamline my life. Chasing down and solving technical problems isn't engaging or challenging to me, so I don't derive enjoyment from it. While I certainly CAN grow my own corn, I'd rather pay a farmer to do it. If you ENJOY growing corn, like you seem to enjoy tinkering with computers, more power to you. I just don't.
... with a warranty and support from Apple, that I don't have to expend any energy maintaining or configuring.
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I never suggested that you *would* either.
The whole warranty argument is pretty weak though. Every component I buy is under warranty, some parts -- I'd argue the most important -- come with a lifetime or limited lifetime warranty. With a "real Mac" you get the 1, or 3 year warranty depending on whether you opted to pay extra, and once it's up, good luck. Where you'd be stuck having to replace an entire machine, I'd simply swap out a part.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
That works for you, and that's great. I don't view $4,000-$6,000 as worth the trade-off of the couple of hours initial build, and continued involvement in a community I have no interest in (Hackintosh). It's just dry and boring to me, sorry.
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I own and operate a business. Keeping costs down wherever possible is the name of the game. See, the less my company has to spend on things means more money in my pocket.
I have no involvement in the hackintosh community. I find that it's faster and easier to just figure a problem out for myself rather than try to get 'community' help.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
And you choose to spend it on something like this, so that's great. I choose not to; it's not intellectually challenging, it's not stimulating, and it's not fun for me. I've built computers, I've built lots of things, "been there, done that," I don't continue to do it.
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I never argued that it was. Building a PC takes little more than common sense. It can be argued though that these days, very few people have common sense.
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Originally Posted by edgeprod
(Post 19851252)
If that's important to you, then that's fine. I gave Apple my credit card number and didn't look back. I continue to do it every time a revision comes along, for my laptop, my desktop, and my phone. I like having the latest and greatest from the brand I prefer, and I like having genuine products, not knockoffs.
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Sorry but your argument fails twice here.
1. The only Mac thus far that has even close the "the latest and greatest" is the Mac Pro coming out soon. The rest of the time you pretty much end up with last years technology in this years "new" [insert apple product here]. Oh and when something new comes along, 9 times out of 10 I don't have to replace my entire system, I simply replace X component.
2. You cannot call something a knock-off when your "new" "real Mac" has the same exact components inside as my PC does, well, last years PC anyway. Same intel processors, same nvidia/ati/intel graphics, same [insert cheapest bidder here] memory/hard disks/etc. If you were to ever open up your "real Mac" you'd find more logos of other companies inside than you do of Apple. The Apple logo is only on the outside heh.
