What does your desktop look like? V3 -

Havoc · #31 07-18-2009, 04:58 AM

I get my desktop backgrounds from either gamewallpapers.com or cgwallpapers.com. Both have some very very awesome wallpapers in almost every resolution.

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gif quality messed up the immense details in this, but you can find it here: http://www.cgwallpapers.com/members/...ers.php?id=109

MeechMunchie · #32 07-18-2009, 05:48 AM

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For Meechmunchie. And Chubfish maybe.

I used to have this V

Abeguy · #33 07-18-2009, 09:08 AM

only one so far with a mac?

currently running a dual screen setup. so that's a shot of my external monitor.

moxco · #34 07-18-2009, 01:14 PM

Sorry for the bgi-arsed picture I have a 1680 x 1050 monitor. Yay most of us a smart enough to know that Vista is shit.

EDIT: hey Image Shack resized it.

Leto · #35 07-18-2009, 01:23 PM

you people make me sick.

Pilot · #36 07-18-2009, 08:44 PM

I changed it because of Kastere. I had a strange dream the other night that he was president of the United States while having a picnic underneath a tree. This is "dedicated" to him.

My old wallpaper was nice... but I love the Tallest's ambiguous relationship with one another even more than Roger's flamboyance.

WINDOWS 2000 FTW!

MeechMunchie · #37 07-19-2009, 07:30 AM

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You seem to have multicoloured Jarate. Inkeeping with your avatar, perhaps?

OddjobAbe · #38 07-19-2009, 09:53 AM

They aren't multicoloured. They're all clear. It is the lights that are coloured.
I'm sure that you were aware of that, but I must make sure.

Pilot · #39 07-19-2009, 09:58 AM

Crashpunk · #40 07-19-2009, 11:33 PM

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Do you know that's the Mircrosoft xp Bliss hill?

Yeah, i love Bliss!

Leto · #41 07-20-2009, 12:47 AM

That usually goes with age. One day you end up realising that although you will never change from the default Windows XP installation that you've grown so accustomed to (until it becomes obsolete circa Win7's standardisation), you will slowly start to admire the Mac's level of reliability and painlessness (and of course actual presence of design and thought into the ui).

Then, following on with your semi-nonconformist lifestyle, you will discover Linux, and proceed to become a total fucking douche.

Crashpunk · #42 07-20-2009, 02:24 AM

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you've grown so accustomed to

All the computers at my School have XP Bliss, I've been seeing it for almost 4 years now so yeah i've grow to it

Havoc · #43 07-20-2009, 04:15 AM

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That usually goes with age. One day you end up realising that although you will never change from the default Windows XP installation that you've grown so accustomed to (until it becomes obsolete circa Win7's standardisation), you will slowly start to admire the Mac's level of reliability and painlessness (and of course actual presence of design and thought into the ui).

That's not my experience with Macs. For me Macs are annoying. Their keyboard is anoying, their mouse is annoying, the layout of the OS is annoying (colored dots? god forbid we put some discription on there for people who haven't been using this OS for years?) and the way it does things is annoying. Then again, I'm a Windows guy and Windows is probably equally annoying to a long time Mac user.

One thing I don't understand however. You pay what, $1500,- these days, for an iMac? Why would you pay that much for an iMac if the performance of a PC with a similar pricetag is at least double (if not tripple) that of an iMac? I've always wondered this since I'm kind of into video editing and everyone at my school always says Macs are better for editing, which makes no sense to me as they have shit performance.

[/fanboi-like rant]

Crashpunk · #44 07-20-2009, 04:20 AM

I agree, I Really Hate Macs. Who ever tried Alienware Computers?

Pilot · #45 07-20-2009, 08:27 AM

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i've grow to it

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Who ever tried Alienware

I grow to them.

Hobo · #46 07-20-2009, 10:45 AM

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That's not my experience with Mac's. For me Mac's are annoying. Their keyboard is anoying, their mouse is annoying, the layout of the OS is annoying (colored dots? god forbid we put some discription on there for people who haven't been using this OS for years?) and the way it does things is annoying. Then again, I'm a Windows guy and Windows is probably equally annoying to a long time Mac user.

One thing I don't understand however. You pay what, $1500,- these days, for an iMac? Why would you pay that much for an iMac if the performance of a PC with a similar pricetag is at least double (if not tripple) that of an iMac? I've always wondered this since I'm kind of into video editing and everyone at my school always says Mac's are better for editing, which makes no sense to me as they have shit performance.

[/fanboi-like rant]

Do you understand the concept of apostrophes?

Havoc · #47 07-20-2009, 01:22 PM

I do and thank you for pointing it out.

Leto · #48 07-20-2009, 10:35 PM

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Indeed, that was a fanboy rant. I'm positive you haven't looked into any other OSs and as such just aren't open to change.

You pay $1500~ for reliability, and in some cases familiarity. I used to be all anti-Mac but really that's because all I ever used was Windows. If you ever get into a position whereupon you are forced to use a Mac for an extended period of time, your Mac homophobia will disintergrate.

Abeguy · #49 07-20-2009, 10:49 PM

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That's not my experience with Macs. For me Macs are annoying. Their keyboard is anoying, their mouse is annoying, the layout of the OS is annoying (colored dots? god forbid we put some discription on there for people who haven't been using this OS for years?) and the way it does things is annoying. Then again, I'm a Windows guy and Windows is probably equally annoying to a long time Mac user.

One thing I don't understand however. You pay what, $1500,- these days, for an iMac? Why would you pay that much for an iMac if the performance of a PC with a similar pricetag is at least double (if not tripple) that of an iMac? I've always wondered this since I'm kind of into video editing and everyone at my school always says Macs are better for editing, which makes no sense to me as they have shit performance.

[/fanboi-like rant]

lol, lets just put it this way. At my college. All the computers are Dell. Except in the Film section. Mactown. And it's one of the best film schools in the country. Believe me, there's a reason people choose macs for these kinds of things. Final Cut is a Behemoth of video editing

Though I still like windows programs. sony Vegas was fun to use, if the PC i had wasn't crap :P
I'm just saying with what I've worked with on PC's and Macs. The latter definitely got me impressed.
As for mice, if you don't like the mighty mouse, which has a nice 2 button functionality already, you can just use any 2 button mouse. I personally use my wacom mouse most of the time. Works like a charm

and Mac has gotten cheaper, with the imacs starting at $1200, not $1500 :P but still, it is pretty pricey with specs that could be beat by a PC for probably lower.

But when it comes to programs that come on mac out of the box. Can't be beat

(semi Fanboi counter point)

and P.S. The colored dots do have descriptions when you mouse goes by them. I guess if you really couldn't tell what red could mean, or if you're color blind, that can be an issue.

Leto · #50 07-20-2009, 11:41 PM

vegas is shit and final cut is soso. really all I've ever used is after effects.

Oddey · #51 07-21-2009, 12:04 AM

My background
Laugh away at my desktop.

***Nate*** · #52 07-21-2009, 12:08 AM

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Mac homophobia

That should really be 'heterophobia', seeing as the prefix 'homo-' refers to sameness and 'hetero-' refers to that which is different. [/anal Nate]

Pilot · #53 07-21-2009, 12:26 AM

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[/anal Nate]

That should read, "Anal, Nate?"

Leto · #54 07-21-2009, 12:33 AM

Given Pilot's minor adjustment, I most certainly would.

***Nate*** · #55 07-21-2009, 12:39 AM

You choose the time and place and I'll be there.

Gretin · #56 07-21-2009, 12:50 AM

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Then, following on with your semi-nonconformist lifestyle, you will discover Linux, and proceed to become a total fucking douche.

Speaking of Linux-using-douches, here's my desktop:

Leto · #57 07-21-2009, 02:04 AM

ohay sup. I approve of both your Linux installation and Sonata Arctica.

Basically you're my favourite person of the thread.

***Nate*** · #58 07-21-2009, 03:05 AM

I can see the Ubuntu logo on the bottom left, but what is the desktop environment?

I would show my Ubuntu desktop, but it's still the default image. For some reason I've always been fond of the default ones.

My Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix desktop on my Eee - which you can only really see when it's initialising and shutting down because UNR doesn't really have a desktop - is attached. Though I must admit that this is the original; the one actually displayed on the Eee has been shrunken and cropped to 800×480.

Crashpunk · #59 07-21-2009, 06:43 AM

OK sorry for the fan boy rant!

Havoc · #60 07-21-2009, 07:31 AM

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Indeed, that was a fanboy rant. I'm positive you haven't looked into any other OSs and as such just aren't open to change.

You pay $1500~ for reliability, and in some cases familiarity. I used to be all anti-Mac but really that's because all I ever used was Windows. If you ever get into a position whereupon you are forced to use a Mac for an extended period of time, your Mac homophobia will disintergrate.

I did have to work with Macs this year and will have to work with them even more next year. I have experience with them but I simply like a PC better because you can stuff so much more power into it than a Mac will ever have, which is simply the most important part in video editing (rendering a video will in turn render your entire platform useless since it uses every single bit of CPU).

On my school though, I have to choose between a network model HP computer (one of those things schools order in bulk and which are slow as fuck) and a set of the latest iMacs. Obviouslly I'll edit my videos on the iMac, thank you very much. But if it were to go between an iMac and my own custom built computer, my Windows machine would win on every front.

Going a bit off topic here, maybe split this topic into a Mac vs PC debate?