New PC (yeh, not mac) build needed for £1k

ha - fair point. I was lucky that it was bought for me in my last job - and when the company went into admin I was given the opportunity to buy it for £400. Win

haha! that's pretty neat. though i guess going into administration is not so good.

think i'll go with:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?PC-1464P

with:

LG M2753V-PF 27" LCD Monitor 16:9 HDMI Gloss Black: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

i'm not in a massive rush but i am without a home computer capable of anything serious. currently just have an apple cube and an acer laptop from 2002 running at home. ha!

that monitor is big but just 1920x1080 res as opposed to 2560x1440 of the imac maybe think of a higher resolution monitor not just a big one

This:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/155584

http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000828?aosid=p204&siteid=1503186&program_id=2554&cid=OAS-EMEA-AFF&tduid=ab08822ed9e481fffaa7542b73b4e393

Welcome to UCL - help yourself to the Apple HE discount (27" iMac i7 for a shade under £1600; upgrade RAM as you need to).

haha! that's pretty neat. though i guess going into administration is not so good.

Yeah that part was fairly low on win. Though I started my own business with a friend and it's going pretty well - was probably the kick i needed

http://store.apple.com/uk_edu_5000828?aosid=p204&siteid=1503186&program_id=2554&cid=OAS-EMEA-AFF&tduid=ab08822ed9e481fffaa7542b73b4e393

Welcome to UCL - help yourself to the Apple HE discount (27" iMac i7 for a shade under £1600; upgrade RAM as you need to).

...but i'm not a student? i can't claim that can i?

also, i heard that unless you are rendering 3D, the extra threads on an i7 chip over an i5 are kind redundant. so i hear.

damnit. it i wanted a monitor that supports 2560 x 1440 i am spending nearly as much as an imac. gah!

this is what you want matt

Trawl gumtree, get two of these :Dell 2408. Fantastic monitor, if I had the money I'd buy that one so I could be running two.

pah beaten!

I miss my multimonitor setups of days gone by :(

ha!

seriously tho. can i get a student discount from apple? i'd like one :D
gah. there i go caving in to apple products...

its illegal but possible, less so if you had a student do it for you but still illegal. the problem is imac's are good value when you consider they have such a large screen in them but just not upgradeable, although i did use to have my imac running two monitors from it.

ha!

seriously tho. can i get a student discount from apple? i'd like one :D
gah. there i go caving in to apple products...

its illegal but possible, less so if you had a student do it for you but still illegal. the problem is imac's are good value when you consider they have such a large screen in them but just not upgradeable, although i did use to have my imac running two monitors from it.

I bought that very iMac using that very link (note that 3-year Applecare is also £50 as opposed to £150). Do you think Apple give a fuck? They have £1600 in their pockets.

saying that, i can get the massive 27" dell ultrasharp U271 and the irush pro for £1360... about £500 less than the legal/normal/non-edu i5 27" imac. hmmn. thats a new telly again.
i'm gonna make my mind up a bit later.

@timmy2wheels ... damnit! stop toying with me! hahaha!

this is hard.

If you want a lovely big screen, iMacs make complete sense. Get the fastest processor you can afford and build up RAM as you need to (these fuckers can take 16GB). I came from a build-it-yourself PC background, then had a decent laptop from work, but when the time came to get something for my photography at home I just couldn't see a better solution. No massive, unsightly tower, quiet operation, and yes, it looks really fucking nice. Use the link and be happy.

its illegal but possible, less so if you had a student do it for you but still illegal. the problem is imac's are good value when you consider they have such a large screen in them but just not upgradeable, although i did use to have my imac running two monitors from it.

That what I dearly hate about the Macintosh, very fisher-price.

the iMac are great little computer that fill everyone's need, apart from one thing - videogames.

Very fustrating to know that the newest Mac can only couple with games that's just been released and will not be sustainable for the newer games coming out in the near future.

I'm using this monitor:
Asus 24" VH242H Wide Gaming LCD TFT Monitor (5ms, Full HD, HDMI, Black): Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
and it's fucking boss.

i'm going to go non-apple and get:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?PC-1464P

and

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=381164&~ck=dellSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=20&dgc=SS&cid=41147&lid=1069636&acd=23975883824506262

which leaves enough spare cash for a netbook for my wife and possibly a telly.

That what I dearly hate about the Macintosh, very fisher-price.

the iMac are great little computer that fill everyone's need, apart from one thing - videogames.

Very fustrating to know that the newest Mac can only couple with games that's just been released and will not be sustainable for the newer games coming out in the near future.

If you children want to play video games, get a video games console.

i'm going to go non-apple and get:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?PC-1464P

and

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=381164&~ck=dellSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=20&dgc=SS&cid=41147&lid=1069636&acd=23975883824506262

which leaves enough spare cash for a netbook for my wife and possibly a telly.

Good choice that, nice screen as well, plus you'll keep the wife happy!

here's my thinking on the hackintosh build:
reasons to like macs - the build quality is great. the os is pretty good. the software is no different.
i kinda find it hard to justify tailoring a build to be OSX friendly to then wrangle OSX to work on it when i'm not going to feel much benefit.
i like OSX, but hey, windows 7 is pretty sweet too.

so, getting away from hackintosh specific builds does anyone have any suggestions for a quality pc build?

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but is essentially the main point of a hackintosh, to just be able to run the mac OS on a PC?

Obviously I get that some people like a challenge. But I'm trying to work out what the point is. To me at least half of the point of a mac is that Apple stuff is just nicer.

Oh and I found this, which made me smile...

...new age fun with a vintage feel!

heh! i have an apple cube. its sexy .... i mean slow.