Today was a good day in work...

lucky boy...


so why do all you tec geeks hate apple so much??

In fairness I used to, our users were asking for corporate iphones, we kept telling them no but eventually O2 offered us a trial handset so we could see. My colleage borrowed it overnight and came back singing its praises, I promptly took the p155 and took the phone home myself that night. From that day on I had to eat my words, I think their phones are some of the best, I really love the ipad for its portability and simplicity and as much as I'd still like to hate apple I can't. They do what they do well, their "walled garden" has pros and cons just like an open system, it is their choice and they do it well, making technology accessible to all, not just the "geeks"

and I suspect all those that say they hate apple will also agree that they hate Microsoft, yet they use their products every day. They are both the best at what they do, they aren't in direct competition nearly as much as everyone seems to remember they are.

I haven't yet tried a mac, I wouldn't look at a macbook for this as I want to play games and they are still not as ubiquitous on the mac platform as windows.

I'd probably like MacOS if I took the time, my dislike was all based on animosity with no real basis.

Just my experience of course but when we got that first iPhone I wanted to hate it, I really did, but I couldn't in the end.

Meh, too much rambling, have a picture of my eagerly awaited arrival:

I agree brett, apple products on the whole are very good, apple as a company are arrogant, pig headed and a company you want to hate.

General consumers buy the brand rather than the product, im no expert but if i was gonna buy one of the new ipads or tablet thingys, i wouldnt buy an ipad, other manufacturers arent so pig headed as apple so theirs will have expandable memory, usb slots and memory card slots etc

A friend has one of those laptops, he's managed to break it already (broke one of the corners of the case off) and he's set the light-up keyboard to glow hot pink.

I think he just uses it to play EVE while on business trips.

Hehe mine won't be far off, will keep me amused when I'm in a north devon hotel. (not to mention pretty much every night at home)
I've already bought a couple of new (new to me, been out a while) games to try out the 3d. I've got 3-4 3d movies now too hehe, bring on the delivery date already

From a work POV the core i7 and 16gb of ram will help with running virtual machines and our new qlikview data mining software so it's not all fun (honest )

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

On the 3D side of things I recently upgraded to a Core i7 desktop system and also brought a LG W2363D monitor which is LG's 120hz 3D monitor. I'm sure different people react differently to the 3D but I personally found it great for short bursts on games. But using it for anything more then half an hour made my eyes ache. It also depends massively on the environment your in.

Originally Posted by Seggons

3d opinion

Now theres an interesting bit, I've scoured the web looking for reviews and pretty much everyone (like I will be when it arrives no doubt) is gushing about it and stuff, nice to have a bit of reality injected in there.

I'd expected it to not be suitable for long term use, I'm looking forward to a few movies and stuff but I guess only time will tell, I wear glasses anyway which may help or hinder the adoption, I'm not sure yet. I have no problems with the cinemas "roy orbison specials" and I don't recall any real difficulty at the demo at the gadget show but it was only a matter of minutes.

two weeks is such a long time when you are waiting, I've already bought two games, a gaming headset and have 7-8 movies ready heh.

I'm interested in the possibility of 3d photography too, I think I could get some interesting stuff, will see what some of them look like first before I start trying to get into that though.

c'mon nice dell assemblers, less crapware installing, more putty together and sendy offy!

Well today is set to be the best day yet. The machine left castle donington depot shortly before I woke up. Nerdgasm due at some point today. Especially as yesterday, this went live: http://www.speedtest.net/result/1468978086.png up from 8mb for a site of 200-300 employees to that (currently between two IT staff LOL)

Just over a week to go until Red Orchestra 2, good timing

There was a good piece in PC Gamer a few months ago about 3D gaming, he tried several games.

WoW looked amazing, except the depth of the 3D world mixed with all the UI windows being right in the foreground meant his eyes hurt from constantly having to shift the 'distance' they were seeing.

Bad Company 2 also looked awesome, but stereoscopy meant it was hard to render and perceiving the most crucial thing... the gunsight.

Burnout Paradise became a bit easier due to depth perception helping to judge corners, and an RTS (World in Conflict or DoW2) was similarly awesome looking.

So yeah, interesting stuff, share your experiences and make us all jealous.