Oh Microsoft, you tease!

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:14 am

Keavy wrote:Currently posting from my MacMini with my 22" HD monitor.

Looks awesome and not having to scroll side to side when someone posts a huge JPEG...Its so awesome!!!

I hate you

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:28 am

I need to get my friend who has a digital camera over here so he can snap pics of this bad boy.

Oh, I did the math on this setup and for the Mac, Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, DVI Cable, and taxes it cost me $1000.

I replaced my keyboard because old one was grungy, swapped out my single-button hunk of plastic mouse for an ergonomic two-button mouse with four-way scroll wheel (How I lived so long without that thing I'll never know) and the speakers, the monitor has crappy built-in audio and you have to be on top of the Mac to hear its tiny little speaker.

All in all, I am very pleased with my new setup. Just need to get my damn power brick here and it'll be perfect.

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:35 pm

Guess what Keavy?! I just logged onto my 360, loaded up Lego Star Wars II and got RROD....AGAIN!!! Good thing GameCrazy will replace it. the only issue is getting them to just let me keep my hard drive /sigh

Post by **Shirai** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:13 pm

Keavy wrote:Currently posting from my MacMini with my 22" HD monitor.

Looks awesome and not having to scroll side to side when someone posts a huge JPEG...Its so awesome!!!

Ok!
I recently upgraded to a 22" as well, remind me to post a full size FFXI screenshot from there.
(1680*1050)

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:11 pm

Okay I did the squeeze test (w/o the mu and the hdd attached but I left my Intercooler on). BINGO! Working 360!!!! I shut down reattached my hdd and mu and got 1 red light and a frozen screen. My cousin claimed that was a failure of the hdd or mu. Wrong. I plugged my hdd and mu into her 360 and it worked just fine. Load up mine again, bam, 3 Red Rings again. Time to play this game again. (I sadly opened my 360, but I made sure the sticker would re-stick w/o anyone knowing, for internal upgrades, well heh, I just put the stock back on and the sticker doesnt look tampered with rofl (No that's not warrenty cheating. My cousin works at GameCrazy, they tell her to just make sure the sticker fully sticks to the case and doesn't look peeled off and they'll assume its warrenty valid.))

EDIT!!!!: GameCrazy has changed their policy due to Microsoft screwing them over. Red Ring is only handled by microsoft now, their warrenty won't cover microsucks butt anymore. Joy. So screw it. I'm done with microsoft.

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:43 pm

I'm sorry Karou. I know your pain all too well.

I cannot wait for my DVI cables to get here. They're in Oakland right now so I should have them on Monday or Tuesday.

The reason I want them so bad is when I want to switch from my computer to 360 I have to unplug one and plug in the other and that DVI --> VGA adaptor Apple supplies with the computer is a piece of crap that keeps popping out on me.

Post by **Fiye** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:46 pm

Damn. My sister's 360 is still running smooth. I'm actually scared to buy another xDDD

Keavy · Post by **Keavy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:00 pm

Fiye wrote:Damn. My sister's 360 is still running smooth. I'm actually scared to buy another xDDD

She must have purchased one of the few that actually works.

Post by **Karou Ariyen** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:35 am

Day 2: no box. I sit longly staring at the doorstep. sitting doing nothing. Naw I'm not that crazy, I dusted off my old xbox hoping Halo2 would satisfy my needs, it did for 2 seconds. because I wanted to play Halo 3.