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Oh cool well the situation must have improved some in recent years or I was just chatting with people in a bad location. What I kept hearing from then were woes of data caps, latency, and overselling the copper lines to the extent that the bandwidth would be dripping through at peak times.
Yea he was hardcore into it, but I'm the same just for other things that interest me. At one point his guild had team meetings 5x a week and went on multi-hour raids. They had spreadsheets to analyze each members performance metrics and would have to cut anyone who wasn't meeting the standard. That was my brothers role, to make the call, but he said it was doable because it used objective measurement and everyone understood it was a pro team and emotion was out the window at that level.
I've had many girlfriends over the years, but have lost at least half to the same fate. It's just hardcore like OCD/geeking out and you can't find the time for much else lol. We're all wired differently, and this is the cards I got dealt.
Yea your understanding with mac is the same as I have. You're paying a premium for x86 architecture that manifests as superior aesthetics and support. They haven't even had their own wild hardware built into the mix in over a decade. They had contracts with motorola and IBM through the 80s, 90s, and oughts, but went Intel in like 2006 or so. Since I'm not a gamer, personal rigs became more than enough post nehalem, but before then the thing to do was get the lowest end of the best series and overclock the crap out of it! Being able to swap out cpu, or just upgrade the mobo with ease was always a priority. With apple any talks of that voids the warranty, and is painfully expensive. You can always go hackintosh, in the end, if you really want to go back to osx dual/tri booting. I had a bunch of tri-booting rigs a while back.
