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Anyone else here in the post-PC era?

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Message 88 of 429 (633561)
09-14-2011 5:56 PM 		Reply to: Message 86 by Larni
09-14-2011 5:33 PM

Re: Itunes account
I finally got bored of the PC rat race, bought a 360 and have not missed anything about fiddling with options to get Oblivion or Crysis to do little more than stutter like a.....low frame rate PC game.
ditto. it's quite nice to come home with a game and be playing it within 5 minutes of opening the box instead of spending time tweaking settings and updating drivers.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds
soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world
And so there was only one thing I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry
Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan
Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On
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09-14-2011 6:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 89 by New Cat's Eye
09-14-2011 5:59 PM

Re: Itunes account
Riiiight... last couple times I fired up the PS3 I got to play my favortie game
sure with the current gen (and future generations) of game consoles there are OS updates and updates for the games but they're generally foolproof, no searching for beta releases of drivers or rolling back to different driver versions. Turn on the console, let the system update itself and then go. I use an Xbox so i don't know how you PS3 users fare but I haven't had the slightest trouble with system/game updates.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds
soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world
And so there was only one thing I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry
Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan
Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On
*not an actual doctor
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09-14-2011 8:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 92 by New Cat's Eye
09-14-2011 7:55 PM

Re: Itunes account
yes there is the RROD, I have yet to have it happen to me, but my brother is on his second xbox and I've heard tell of people on the 7th. And the PS3 has had issues as well I've heard. I'm not trying to claim the console is superior, just saying that the vast majority of games I buy will be on the xbox cause I'm fed up with PC gaming.
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It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds
soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world
And so there was only one thing I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry
Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan
Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On
*not an actual doctor
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DrJones*
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09-17-2011 4:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 177 by crashfrog
09-17-2011 3:43 PM

Re: No Macs for me, thank you very much!
I don't know what it is but people of a certain age are just completely stymied by the first time something isn't what they expect. And these are perfectly intelligent people with advanced degrees!
We've had a computer in the house for almost as long as I can remember, our first one was an Apple 2+. My dad used to teach computer basics in adult education classes, but bring him one of those wireless credit card terminals and he's clueless. One time he took to long to type in his pin and the terminal turned off its display (power saving feature I would assume) and he thought he had broken it.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds
soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden i found myself in love with the world
And so there was only one thing I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang along ling long - Jesus Built my Hotrod Ministry
Live every week like it's Shark Week! - Tracey Jordan
Just a monkey in a long line of kings. - Matthew Good
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! - Get Your War On
*not an actual doctor
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10-12-2011 6:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 309 by Larni
10-12-2011 6:25 PM

there is probably multiple millions of people trying to update right now, give it a day or two.
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