*** Sexy Septuagenarian September Cash Chat Thread ***

[Suited Frenzy]

Been playing 25NL zone lately.

Sessions went good. Played about 2 hours total which isn't long for reg tbls (as far as hands go) but for zone I was getting in around 8-10 hands per min.

I want to try & play about an hour a day. If I continue @ the BB/100 rate that I'm going, I should be able to move up to 50NL soon. The bad thing about it though, is there aren't many players in the 50NL/100NL zone. So, I might just have to stick @ 25NL.

 

[LuckyChippy]

What the **** is Zone.

 

[JOEBOB69]

Bovada's rush/zoom

 

[hackmeplz]

Orrrrrrrr come to Cleveland for a Shoe visit....

I'll prob be going around the end of the year.

 

[JohnBoyWWFC]

No one asked you.

 

[switch0723]

Desktops > Laptops.

Generally you pay triple the price to get a laptop with the same specs as a pc. Not to mention your extremely limited with upgrading.

Most people I know with laptops don't even take them anywhere.

so true, lol people who don't own a desktop

Obv the pro tactic is to have 1 of everything

 

[Matt Vaughan]

I'll prob be going around the end of the year.

We should meet up then. Not that we probably need to plan anything... I kind of spend a lot of time there.

 

[Logan2]

I take mine from my desk to my couch to my bed to occasionally hooking it up to the tv for sports. It's quite nice not being chained to your desk.

When my laptop die i get one of those new desktops all-in-one with Wifi which are just like big tablets with a base and just the extra mouse/keyboard and take it to the bed or couch too and see movies/series there (even take it out some times to places where they got free wifi), is pretty much like a laptop but with a bigger screen and all goodness of the desktop. Only downside is no batteries so i do need to have it conected to power. But compared to old desktops where have to be conected to modem or too heavy to move around this are awsome.

Also multitabling on laptops is a pain if don´t want to stack.

 

[switch0723]

1 old desktop for poker
1 new desktop for gaming
1 laptop for laptopping
1 big tv for additional laptop monitor
1 ipad for when you need to multi table hockey games

anything else is inadequate

 

[WVHillbilly]

1 old desktop for poker
1 new desktop for gaming
1 laptop for laptopping
1 big tv for additional laptop monitor
1 ipad for when you need to multi table hockey games

anything else is inadequate

Not everyone has a graph that goes to the moon!

Also sorry about shirking my modly duties earlier, but I was in Morgantown for the WVU game.

 

[JOEBOB69]

I have a home made vid of me "skipping" saying haters going to hate.
Don't know if i need to delete it or save it for a special occasion

ROLL TIDE

 

[Jblocher1]

extremely thrilled about life!

6x pot bet like a boss lol. No but for real u won't be loving life for long if u continue to play like that...

 

[WVHillbilly]

I have a home made vid of me "skipping" saying haters going to hate.
Don't know if i need to delete it or save it for a special occasion

ROLL TIDE

Post it ldo.

 

[JOEBOB69]

WV the pic of little man looks like he's doing the "watzzz upppp" thing.

 

[RamdeeBen]

I've really been tempted for some time to move from laptop to a desktop but looking at specifically getting a mac, those all in one screens. They cost like £1k-£2k..so compared to windows a huge difference in price but still torn on if I should or not.

Seen a ton of reviews and they look good but for someone who has never used a mac in their life is it worth it or will the novelty of having one wear off after a week?

 

[ScottishMatt]

I've really been tempted for some time to move from laptop to a desktop but looking at specifically getting a mac, those all in one screens. They cost like £1k-£2k..so compared to windows a huge difference in price but still torn on if I should or not.

Seen a ton of reviews and they look good but for someone who has never used a mac in their life is it worth it or will the novelty of having one wear off after a week?

Macs are meh. Comes down to whether you feel the software is worth the price increase. I'm not sure on the price/performance differences for current models but I wouldn't be surprised to see a £700 desktop matching or outperforming the £1200 Macs. The absolute best method when getting a new PC is to set yourself a budget. Do that, and then determine whether the loss in performance is worth the different software (note: different, not necessarily better). No one can really tell you if Mac OS is worth the £300-infinity price increase. What I would say is to try a Mac out before considering buying one. You'd hate yourself for spending a decent load of cash on a machine that has less longevity, little to no upgradeability and worse compatibility, and all for software that you don't even like that much more.

 

[acky100]

LOLMACS

PLZ TELL ME URE NOT SRS! (no offence pocketehs )

Macs are insanely overpriced, their large selling point i guess is that they have solid state drives (these are faster than a regular hard drive)

So spend like £50 on a solid state drive and then build a desktop, and it will be way quicker than a mac and you aren't paying another 1k on top for a picture of an apple on the side.

And if i managed to build a computer without any knowledge at all then i think any chimp can, cause im pretty retarded

 

[ScottishMatt]

Yeah desktops are pretty easy to build. Kinda like a jigsaw really.

I wasn't aware that Macs use SSDs (exclusively?). Even so, I would think you could easily obtain an additional 1TB of SSD on a desktop and it would still be better price/performance than a Mac.

 

[RamdeeBen]

Macs are meh. Comes down to whether you feel the software is worth the price increase. I'm not sure on the price/performance differences for current models but I wouldn't be surprised to see a £700 desktop matching or outperforming the £1200 Macs. The absolute best method when getting a new PC is to set yourself a budget. Do that, and then determine whether the loss in performance is worth the different software (note: different, not necessarily better). No one can really tell you if Mac OS is worth the £300-infinity price increase. What I would say is to try a Mac out before considering buying one. You'd hate yourself for spending a decent load of cash on a machine that has less longevity, little to no upgradeability and worse compatibility, and all for software that you don't even like that much more.

Well; I've only ever starting using apple products this year. Got an iphone and Ipad and very impressed with both and that's my first experience with anything from apple, hence the reason I'm thinking more macs as opposed to windows now. I've just found from using windows there are always problems or crashes with them, yet I've heard macs are so stable you get little to no lag or any sort of crashes/problems, weather or not that is true I don't know. I don't use computers for much other than browsing, poker so obviously wouldn't need the top end range of specs so won't be interested in upgrading or anything. Yeah that's my main concern, buying and regretting it so wondering if anyone has moved from windows to macs and their thoughts.

LOLMACS

PLZ TELL ME URE NOT SRS! (no offence pocketehs )

Macs are insanely overpriced, their large selling point i guess is that they have solid state drives (these are faster than a regular hard drive)

So spend like £50 on a solid state drive and then build a desktop, and it will be way quicker than a mac and you aren't paying another 1k on top for a picture of an apple on the side.

And if i managed to build a computer without any knowledge at all then i think any chimp can, cause im pretty retarded

I was under the impression that everything was just better in them as opposed to windows? not just hard drives? Again though, I'm not looking for insane performance but surely you're not just paying that extra huge $$ just to have the apple logo are you? Like; I can tell a huge difference between phones/tablets I've had in the past in comparison to apples phone/tablet.




Thanks though guys for thoughts, you both have put me off a bit now though haha..I'll look more into it

 

[ScottishMatt]

Quick comparison:

Desktop: http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gamin...70K+4.60GHz+SLI+OC+Gaming+PC+?productId=54541

(From the company I buy my PC shit from, remember you can get even better value by building it yourself)

Mac: http://store.apple.com/uk/mac/family/imac


Processor: Mac doesn't even state which one . . . you are certainly getting more with the desktop though, top of the range i5 with overclocking + fantastic cooling performance. Desktop simply wins out here every time, OC'ing will make it more viable in the years to come because as programs become more demanding CPU's will have to work harder. You can't OC on a mac therefore will need to upgrade to a whole new PC to catch up with the tech cycle in said years.

Hard drive: 1TB (doesn't even state which model FFS) vs 120GB SSD + 1TB HD (Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM - good model BTW). Desktop completely outclasses Mac here yet again.

GPU: Mac has a single 512MB mobile GPU which can probably handle average games on medium setting for approx. 30 FPS. Desktop has a multiple GPU setup (SLI) each with 2GB VRAM and they will handle just about anything you can throw at them. Would expect >60 FPS in all but the most demanding games at high resolutions with everything maxed out. Although you might not intend to game with it, gaming is still the best way to benchmark comparisons because it is so demanding.

RAM: 8GB v 8GB. Mac again doesn't state which but you would be hard pressed to find better RAM than that which Corsair (read: best company ever) distributes.


The only thing the Mac has going for it is the screen. No idea how I quality it is but you can get a good deal on some IPS Monitors nowadays. Think I paid £160 for mine. Take away one GPU from the Desktop to cover costs of a monitor, building it yourself should save enough to buy Windows and you still have a better PC. Don't know what is powering the Mac but with a Corsair PSU in the desktop you don't have to worry about anything.


If you don't get it already I'm convincing you not to buy a Mac. Thing with a desktop is if you don't need something (GPU for example) you don't have to have it and can save yourself money. Which can then be used to get better performance in another area, or used to play teh pokerz wif!

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You probably don't get any of that but there is no area in hardware where the Mac wins. Desktop>Mac.

 

[WVHillbilly]

WV the pic of little man looks like he's doing the "watzzz upppp" thing.

Lol, yeah I guess it does look like that. He was just "dancing" and making funny faces while I was trying to take his pic during the game today.

 

[Ducky7]

LOLMACS

PLZ TELL ME URE NOT SRS! (no offence pocketehs )

Macs are insanely overpriced, their large selling point i guess is that they have solid state drives (these are faster than a regular hard drive)

So spend like £50 on a solid state drive and then build a desktop, and it will be way quicker than a mac and you aren't paying another 1k on top for a picture of an apple on the side.

And if i managed to build a computer without any knowledge at all then i think any chimp can, cause im pretty retarded

I agree Acky is a chimp, building one is the nuts

 

[JohnBoyWWFC]

I wouldn't even know where to start building one wtf I'm so old.

 

[acky100]

I just opened an article on google and watched a 10 min youtube video (good guides there) Its just like lego really! And when you build them yourself they dont crash or have problems (atleast ive never had one problem with mine yet) - The crashes and shit that you might sometimes get on windows is almost certainly because you've used ones bought from the likes of PC world where they skimp on vital components like the power supply instead of just putting a £20 more expensive one in they will go for the cheaper options.

 

[ScottishMatt]

TBH once you have a look at all the connectors and slots it's difficult not to know where everything fits.