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I bought a macbook pro for college....

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Terrifyer
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States338 Posts
November 11 2011 16:25 GMT
#1
...my freshman year.


I WAS BRAINWASHED.


BRAINWAAAAAAASSSSHEEEEED! do you know what it feels like to think "hey! I spent 2600 dollars to be able to edit videos at the school's newspaper for a semester and then quit because you need to find a higher paying job to pay off the expensive laptop i just bought!"

it ain't gooooooood.

anyway, my friend wants to buy it for 700-800 dollars. it's a 2009 macbook pro 17".

I know some things. but I do not know anything about computers. However I do know how to play good ZvP in BW. But that is all...

I thought the macbook had 2 graphics cards running together (SLI i guess) but one of them is used for power saving mode, and one for "performance."

gah! should have read that a little better.

Anyway, I want to build a desktop for around ~900-1000 dollars. I was wondering what the best place was to start learning, any suggestions of parts, blahblahblah...anything really. tell me a good computer story even!

But all I have gathered so far is that I want to be able to run BF3 on ultra, lol.

That probably means SLI. That's all I sort of know at the moment!

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eat shit and die
Charger
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2405 Posts
November 11 2011 16:31 GMT
#2
You won't need SLI. In the Tech Support forum there is a Computer Build Resource Thread. All the information you need will be there and that's where you should ask questions to get decent answers.

Also, your macbook doesn't utilize SLI, it might have 2 graphics 'cards' (integrated and dedicated) but it isn't a SLI setup. Anyway, good luck!
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
TheToast
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4808 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 16:36:53
November 11 2011 16:33 GMT
#3
Glad to hear you have come back from the dark side....

Check this thread out: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=137554

Post any questions you have in there and someone should be able to help you out!

-edit: check out this thread too, should be helpful: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=271861
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Rob28
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada705 Posts
November 11 2011 16:51 GMT
#4
I just got a new desktop from NCIX.com. Ran me just shy of a grand, but it runs BF3 on ultra. You could probably shave a few bucks off the price, mine was a bit of overkill (I don't really need 16 gigs of RAM, I just wanted it).

TigerDirect and newegg also pretty decent sites to spec out some configurations.
"power overwhelming"... work, dammit, work!
JSH
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4109 Posts
November 11 2011 17:02 GMT
#5
I mean you already bought it, might as well use it

Unless you want to play PC games that Mac doesn't support, but you can always dual boot

Mac isn't bad, it's just overpriced
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DreamChaser
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1649 Posts
November 11 2011 17:18 GMT
#6
I never understood why people think they need a Mac for college, i use a pretty shitty laptop my uncle gave me and it does everything and anything i need for college.
Plays against every MU with nexus first.
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
November 11 2011 17:50 GMT
#7
On November 12 2011 02:18 DreamChaser wrote:
I never understood why people think they need a Mac for college, i use a pretty shitty laptop my uncle gave me and it does everything and anything i need for college.


It's a fashion/cultural thing really. Also, I think a lot of parents pay for their kid's laptops so money isn't really an issue.
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mmp
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2130 Posts
November 11 2011 19:25 GMT
#8
On November 12 2011 02:18 DreamChaser wrote:
I never understood why people think they need a Mac for college, i use a pretty shitty laptop my uncle gave me and it does everything and anything i need for college.

Apple aggressively advertises in the yuppie demographic.
I (λ (foo) (and (<3 foo) ( T_T foo) (RAGE foo) )) Starcraft
R2D2C3PO
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada105 Posts
November 11 2011 20:28 GMT
#9
On November 12 2011 01:51 Rob28 wrote:
I just got a new desktop from NCIX.com. Ran me just shy of a grand, but it runs BF3 on ultra. You could probably shave a few bucks off the price, mine was a bit of overkill (I don't really need 16 gigs of RAM, I just wanted it).

TigerDirect and newegg also pretty decent sites to spec out some configurations.


Hey, I'm looking to build a new desktop for BF3 too. Problem is I don't know about too much about computers. Can you give me the list of stuff you bought from NCIX? Thanks.
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