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What about the Steampunk and Gunslinger packs? Those have hard-coded yellow all over them. You want it to be totally black? Not possible. This actually made me decide not to renew my sub because I don't have faith in these things ever being noticed or fixed by Paragon Studios.

I logged in to preview the gunslinger bits on my character, and was ready to buy the 12+2 month promo until I learned that I couldn't get rid of the yellow bits. Oh, and Resistance hair still doesn't attach to Huge heads; it just floats in space, and that's been going on for a year and a half. The yellow is here to stay.

The unit I have is the exact one on the Future Shop page at the exact price, and it does indeed have a Geforce 525M with 1Gig of dedicated video memory. Future Shop isn't always accurate in their tech specs.

Yes, really.

It's a Geforce 525M per the tech specs in the PDF below:
http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/produ.../10175890.aspx
http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=ht..._datasheet.pdf

And the brand outscores Apple for reliability:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/app...lity,7364.html

The $650 figure is exactly what I paid for this laptop brand new without any sales. Keep looking, because you just lost $200 for nothing.

Playing the "poor, persecuted Apple apostle" because of anecdotes of a former Mac user? I thought that was reserved for people who had never used a Mac!

I'm not telling you Macs are bad for you. I'm telling you Macs are bad for ME, that this is my personal experience, that this is why I switched to PCs, just as others in this PUBLIC discussion are doing. No, not everyone who dissents is automatically a troll.

I said no such thing. I said their accessibility for the visually impaired is the worst I've ever had to endure, something which I consider important in an operating system, something which reflects attention to detail. Oh, they claim their accessibility is the best in the business and you probably get along just fine without those features because you don't need them. I hope you never do because they will be inadequate.

One of my former Macs, a 20" G5 iMac, emitted noxious smoke when substandard capacitors bubbled and leaked fluid in its power supply. No corners cut there! But my 4 year old self-assembled Desktop PC has never had an issue.

http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/n..._-_92211_1.php

You might get your wish, as Paragon cuts Leopard support loose to focus on Snow Leopard and Lion. Although Leopard is only a 4 year old operating system, it's already been completely abandoned by Apple, as well as any computers that are incapable of upgrading to Snow Leopard due to arbitrary, forced obsolescence built into the code.

Yes, Leopard was only released on October 26, 2007 and already it's useless. In contrast, Windows XP was released on August 24, 2001, over 10 years ago. Machines running it are still able to play City of Heroes and use almost any other Windows software out there.

While you may be loyal to Apple, that sentiment is not returned to its customers.

Not a problem I've had, either. Maybe the brands you're choosing are substandard or you shouldn't have attempted assembling your own PC. Most PC buyers prefer pre-built computers because it's extremely easy to damage internal components with static electricity discharged from your hands.

You could just as easily damage a Mac by handling its guts, if you decided to assemble one of those from scratch somehow. Would you still fault such a creation for failing? My point is, your experience with PCs sounds self-inflicted, and could have been vastly improved if you hadn't done it the hard way, if you had ordered a pre-built machine just as you do when you order a Mac.

Baseless speculation. I'm curious: How did you deduce I lacked in-depth experience with Macs? I mentioned NONE of my history with them. There seems to be this misguided misconception that... if the stubborn PC users would only listen, would only give Apple a chance and try a Mac, they'd see the error of their ways.

Okay, I have a dose of reality for you. The reality is, I owned Macs for a decade before switching to a PC. The reality is that most game developers don't bother with a Mac version. I wonder why that is? Here's a hint: It's not some arbitrary coincidence and it isn't due to hardware.

You stick your head in the sand by labeling and categorizing anyone who doesn't like Macs as trolls, as naysayers, as inexperienced, and as unenlightened, all to keep your delusion of Apple as infallible intact. "Oh, they aren't real people. There must be something wrong with them. Nobody could dislike OS X!"

Yes, people can and do. I stopped using Macs because they caused problems for me. I stopped using them because they were inferior for my needs.

As far as which manufacturer I went with, I grew out of the need to define my personal worth based on which brand of computer I surround myself with.

All you need to know is that my current Windows laptop works fantastic, cost half as much, has twice the power and does EVERYTHING I need. If there's another brand next time I buy a computer that does the same, I'll go with that brand instead, as long as it isn't a Mac; their accessibility (or lack thereof) for the visually impaired is the worst I've ever had to use.

No, inverting the entire screen doesn't equal high-contrast; it equals watching movies and flash videos in negative. I think the worst part of this is that they lie about how their accessibility is the best in the business. Merely boasting about it on their website doesn't make it true for the people who need it.

Edit: To the Mac zealots claiming I lack technical knowledge: Your assignment is to take $650 and try to find a Mac that has a second generation Core i5 processor, 6 gigs of ram, 750 gig hard drive and a Geforce 525M graphics processor with 1 gig of dedicated video memory. When you find a Mac with that much power, post the price for everyone to see.

I didn't want to mention Pong because, although it was my first, it was a second-hand machine and would have thrown guesses at my age off.

Late? My first response is near the beginning of this thread when I reminded everyone not to feed the trolls, but this thread is still here.

Expanded to? Heh. People in their 30's grew up on video games and never left. The Wii didn't get me into video games; arcades, my C64 and my NES did that.

All my love for a motorcycle.

Good idea! Here we go:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/group.php?groupid=190

Unfortunately, I can't fix that one.

There are window resize cursors pictured. Are those too small? They include vertical, horizontal and diagonal arrows.

Grab edges?

Really?

If it's the same person who designed the cryptic League buttons, the new Team UI and its misclickable X button directly above the "Friends" list link, and the maddening Auction interface, we're in trouble.

The Auction scrollbar (among other interface elements) is STILL 0 pixels flush against the "GET" button for items you have spent good Inf posting for sale. It's incredibly easy to accidentally take an expensive item down and lose your deposit just by trying to grab the scrollbar.