Computer is irritating the piss out of me

m4a1mustang

PC gaming ftw.

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USMCASA

indeed

370Zsteve

That is changing as more and more Macs replace PC's. Market share FTW.

Windows, by it's very nature (chained to Legacy apps and the HAL), is horribly inferior to anything based on Unix.

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370Zsteve

I recently had an issue with my Windoze gaming PC. It worked OK except when I played videos (youtube,etc) then it would randomly freeze.

Now, I've been an IT tech since 1973. Mainframes to PC's, I know WTF I'm talking about.

I did everything under the sun. Drivers, card swaps, registry cleaning, better cooling, you name it. Everything would have pointed to a hardware issue, except that even when gaming (which uses more HP than just about anything) the computer worked fine. It was only with video that I would get completely random lockups.

I finally threw in the towel last week and did a complete reinstall, which was a biatch because the computer had tons of software on it. You can back up data, but you can't backup and restore apps (bare metal) and expect a clean install.

Everything is fine now. Windows Blows. And don't even get me started on spyware, virus, rootkit, and malware BS.

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SOLD MY Z MARCH 2018 - another Core OG moves on - new ride 2019 Z Corvette Grand Sport - no mods necessary but already have eyes on HFC and intakes LOL IT NEVER ENDS.

USMCASA

downside to that is as they gain a larger footprint, their weaknesses to viruses gets exposed. anyone, even a k-5 kid can crack a mac password. seen it done at quite a few sites. apple reps have told us that they aren't and refuse to cater to the enterprise field of it, which will keep them from taking business away from non-mac machines. macs are good, at certain things, but to each his own. you'll never be able to buy a gaming powerhouse that you can build a pc to be without apple opening up their hardware to 3rd party developers and making their product consumer mod capable.