Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #727 Joined: [ 10:25 ] [ 12 Nov 2004 ]
Off Topic: There are some forums where you can see the previous posts below the post box. Makes replying to long interesting posts much easier. If I recall correctly, this forum used to be one of them. Why'd it change?
Me saying that I don't like your PC wasn't mature either. It's a matter of taste.
What I meant with wasting time/money is maybe more: Optimizing hardware is your hobby, and you're correct, if that is your hobby then a Mac is really not the right computer for you. However, it's no hobby of mine (btw, if you talk about me wasting money on hobbies, you should see my model railroad...), so I prefer to buy something that costs a little more, has a little worse performance, but works as I need it to right out of the box. It's just a matter of taste.
As for performance: I can't recall having said that Mac OS X performs better than XP. Like, ever. I don't even have XP on my old PC (Windows 2000 FTW!), so I have no way of comparing. I can guarantee that performance of iTunes is better on a Mac than on a PC, but in general, I'd lie if I said I knew either had better performance than the other, especially on the same hardware.
What I meant with optimization is things like, again, airflow and sound. A random PC I'd somewhere on the street is likely going to be worse in both respects than a Mac. Same goes for access to drives or RAM, or cabling. I don't have the energy to change any of these aspects on a PC myself. Instead, I'll just not use the computer. That's my current strategy, by the way.