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  1. soccer mom 2 soccer mom 2 is offline

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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 1:33am)

    ok i just made my first mac purchase- i have always been a pc person and i am not an advanced user so moving to a mac is going to be very new for me.. i want to use this computer like my normal pc (emails, browsing etc) but i also want to set my pictures and videos from the olden days into cds with music etc- i just bought the following- please tell me if i missed anything so i can add on to the order-- ty in advance for any help..

    i7-quad core

    [3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7


    8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
    2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive
    AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1GB GDDR5
    Edited By: soccer mom 2 Jun 30th, 2011 at 02:05 AM
  2. Lord Supremo Lord Supremo is online now actually a tuvalu lord (sigh)

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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 1:40am) in reply to soccer mom 2

    looks good, congrats on coming over from the dark side
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 2:27am) in reply to Lord Supremo

    lmao wait did you say you were putting pics on CDs or running crysis at 60fps?
  4. tek85 tek85 is offline

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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 2:34am) in reply to Camz

    ur def gonna need more geebees fo sho
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 2:47am) in reply to tek85

    loloverkillaments

    seriously though I would definitely get some water cooling and overclock that bad boy to at least 4.8GHz and get crysis up to 80fps, maybe even play some global thermonuclear war.
  6. soccer mom 2 soccer mom 2 is offline

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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:14am) in reply to runninbad

    ugg- sadly im unsure if you guys are making fun of me or are serious....getting old is fun...NOT
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:18am) in reply to soccer mom 2

    lol why in the world would you need 2terabytes of hard drive space and 8 gigs of ram and that video card. Are you going to be doing gaming, or intense video editing? I doubt that, you could have bought a way cheaper one for what you want this computer for.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:19am) in reply to sXeffects

    i think we're gonna need some pics of the rac...er...mac to know for sure.
     
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:53am) in reply to SoCalDrew

    I'm guessing you spent ~$3000 on that mac? A $1200 mac would have given you all that you need and more. Or you could have stayed with an All-In-One PC and spent ~ $700 and had plenty of power. Like this:

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883220064
  10. soccer mom 2 soccer mom 2 is offline

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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:55am) in reply to SoCalDrew

    i told the guy i was going to be running final cut for the cds i want to make and this is what he said- actually he was trying to sell me a pro mac tower but i actually thought that was overkill with what little knowledge i have so he directed me to this-- oh well live and learn- thank you for the feed back...
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 3:59am) in reply to soccer mom 2

     
    Originally Posted by soccer mom 2 View Post

    i told the guy i was going to be running final cut for the cds i want to make and this is what he said- actually he was trying to sell me a pro mac tower but i actually thought that was overkill with what little knowledge i have so he directed me to this-- oh well live and learn- thank you for the feed back...

    Wow, great sales man, Im sure he got a good laugh with his co workers about selling the lady who wanted to use final cut pro the same computer used to render Cars 2 at 11 hours a frame.

    Sick computer though I am definitely jealous.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:12am) in reply to Admiral

    i HATE being ignorant and getting taken advantage of-- i actually thought the apple store would be the most honest-- ty for the help ot..
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:19am) in reply to soccer mom 2

     
    Originally Posted by soccer mom 2 View Post

    i HATE being ignorant and getting taken advantage of-- i actually thought the apple store would be the most honest-- ty for the help ot..

    sorry soccer mom but you got completely raped by that salesman...surely you know someone tech savvy that could have helped you with this purchase??
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:23am) in reply to Camz

    My advice is check OT beforehand next time.

    A provocative picture will surely increase the quality of advice you receive.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:25am) in reply to Pker4Dummies

    i actually called my brother in law-- he told me it was perfect- i cant wait to forward this thread to him as he reads pocket fives...payback is so happening...
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:27am) in reply to soccer mom 2

    macs suck ass as do all apple products. imo
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:30am) in reply to soccer mom 2

     
    Originally Posted by soccer mom 2 View Post

    i HATE being ignorant and getting taken advantage of-- i actually thought the apple store would be the most honest-- ty for the help ot..

    You did get a kick ass computer that won't be going obsolete any time soon tho. And if ur looking to lure some nerds into ur cougar den just tell them about ur i7 sandy bridge w/ solid state drive. (BTW can I come over and check it out?) And even more on the bright side you have a reason to start gaming.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:52am) in reply to tek85

    I hope you already had final cut, cause if not id be ripshit. Unless you're doing some serious video editing, macs come with imovie.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 4:55am) in reply to dams

    i dont have it- i was just told (again by my sisters husband) that final cut was way better than imovie... please tell me imovie is fine because final cut is like 1k more..;(
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 5:00am) in reply to soccer mom 2

    Pretty sure you can do that in iPhoto

    http://www.apple.com/ilife/video-showcase/
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 5:02am) in reply to tek85

    No its not final cut x is like 300. I run cs5.5, but have used pretty much all platforms. There's little learning curve on imovie or elements, a lot of people will buy final cut cause everyone says its the best, but 90% of them will only use it for basic.edits you can accomplish with imovie.

    I say try imovies first then upgrade if you want to do more.
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    Jun 30th, 2011 (6/30/2011 5:23am) in reply to tek85

    ty dams- i will follow your advice...
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