Orca Flotta

Just in passing, all these have absurdly huge disk drives. I mean, who even uses a local disk for much of anything anymore? I suppose maybe if you want to store HD movie files to watch on the plane or something. The more the merrier, Qie. :smileyvery-happy: As you might know all our software is growing and growing in space requirements. Remember the days when your whole Windows fitted on 6 * 1.44 MB diskettes? These days are long gone. Nowadays you just need more space on your HD than ever before. And, yes, we store a lot of movies locally. Not owning a TV, we use our main computer as media center as well. We even store our movie collection on external disk so we can take it with us from pc to pc. Also we use all that local disk space for everything computing related. My hubby's history archive, expansive photo collections, drawings, countless Linux distros ... and putting all that up on a cloud? NO NEVER! The NSA is not welcome on our private computers. Besides, a upgrade from 500 GB to 1 TB makes a 10 € or $ price difference, so hardly worth mentioning.

Sid Foxglove wrote: i dont think it ruins anyones expreince in any nature to get a invite to a group or maybe getting a lil spam Only speaking for myself now: getting one bot generated spam message and I leave the group. And I guess I'm not the only one. Nothing worse than receiving unwanted advertising while busy doing something more useful. Well, there's a workaround fro many of us: just set that yourself up so you won't get any messages from certain groups. Best solution tho: ban the friggin bots from SL once and for all. They are just eating resources and don't produce anything useful in the way of developing SL.

Happy happy new year 'n stuff y'all \o/

Darkwolf, your problem is the fuking Intel HD graphics, which isn't even a card but an onboard chip, made for watching the occasional YouTube video and ultra light gaming. It's seriously overburdened with the task to display a virtual world like SL. 1 tb hard drives are the norm these days and have nothing to do with your problem. The i7 is a cool cpu but total overkill for SL and a waste of money you could've otherwise invested in a real graphics card. Rule of thumb: Intel HD graphics = office warrior Nvidia GT series = home theater Nvidia GTX series = gamer

I don't want a hardcore gaming computer.. Just something I can get shadows on. That's all I am asking for. That's asking a lot, Daisonia. The ability to have shadows without a serious breakdown of fps demands a kinda hardcore gaming lappy. Even on my desktop I only activate shadows sometimes for photos. I guess your best bet would be MSI, they tend to blow alll the others out of the water and their GS series are more budget friendly as well. But you can't expect the best build quality and placing your lappy on a cooling stand is a must. So there goes the mobility aspect of laptops. I'd recommend a real desktop for serious SLing, it's cheaper and more powerful as well. And for the time you're travelling just try to live with a less pretty SL.

Good lappy from a reputable manufacturer. That i7 is total overkill tho while GPU could've been better (GTX series) for the same price, and, make no mistake, gpu is the most important part of any gaming machine.

I would imagine by manufacturer, Orca was thinking of Dell or HP, who do indeed stuff their offerings with a bunch of useless crap. Thanx, Dres, it's exactly what I meant. Perrie confuses apples (no pun intended) with oranges here. Of course when you're in business, any business, you're trying to maximize profits. HP does it, Apple does it, Tigerdirect and Newegg are doing it as well. But a manufacturer calculates his machines for price brackets and in 90% comes out with not optimal products for SL. That's why we find so many PCs not optimized for for our special useage pattern. While a retailer just tries to find the cheapest prices for the actual components and leaves the manufacturing part to us. I don't care, for I am a customer and try to minimize my expenses, by looking for the best offers on the market. And, sorry to say, all the huge manufacturers are comparing rather badly. Particularly when you're not a specialized gamer but an allrounder with a tendency to spend most of their online time in SL. For that you need a computer with a generous amount of oooomph, but not in all aspects. So there are some nifty tricks to avoid overspending. For example: get the bestest gpu and good cooling but save on cpu and RAM. So I rather spend like half an hour or a day on market research and clue myself up ... and then I go out and configure my own machine with everything I need/want and no less but also no more. And here the retailers come into their own right. I dunno about the USA but in Germany the system builder/configurator websites have an inbuilt foolsafe function that will alert you once you're going the wrong way. It's like "Sorry, but you can't put this graphics card in that case", or "Sorry, the mobo of your choice doesn't support this processor". The rest is just as easy as Lego. And, as always, YouTube is your friend with lots of building tutorials and components recommendations 'n stuff.

Perhaps while you are busy slamming those big evil corporations you should do a little bit of a background check on Tiger Direct and Newegg. Naaw, I don't have the time to waste. Also I never said those are big evil corporations, they are just manufacturers acting accordingly to deliver products which make them the best profit. And I couldn't give less of a damn on TigerDirect and Newegg, only heard they let you configure your own machine, which is the (only) way to go if you really want a PC that is 100% yours. Of course Jeannie's advice is the best. I got my computer the same way, by having it made at a local store. But she seems to forget that in the US many people live in terribly remote places, we can't even imagine in the EU. They just don't have a small PC shop (at least not with reasonable pricing) just down the road, so they are dependant on mail order ... and that means a company with some ooomph behind it. I guess it's much easier to have the lastest Applecrap delivered to your Rocky Mountains getaway than a totally custom made gaming machine. And, yeah, I'd never buy a pc from soemone who forces the OS (+bloatware) on me. I recently filed thru my CD and DVD box and tossed around 100-200 DVDs in the garbage. Often unused, never opened. Just a waste of money ... my money. :smileyindifferent:

Often wonder where all the 50.000+ online people hang around. Thankfully they're not all hanging out in the same sim at the same time, Monti. LOL, imagine that. :smileyvery-happy: Also let's not forget that RPers are only a tiny tiny fraction of SL's general populace and that in fact most avies are very territorial and immobile. They log in in some stupid welcome area and do their stupid stuffz there and never leave those places. I'm glad they don't.

Even after the evil Googles bought it, YT is still your friend: And there are many many more fraggles who post stuff like that. :matte-motes-nerdy:

I wouldn't go with any of the big brand manufacturers, they give you some cool components for the bragging factor but cheap out on other stuff, like mobo, PSU and memory. And Apple is out of the question, not for the price alone but for many other reasons as well. Like dd temin already wrote, if you're in the US then Tigerdirect and Newegg are reasonable alternatives. Heck, I have no idea about the market in that country but they seem very reasonable and flexible and good value for the buck. Both of 'em let you configure your dream machine, put in what you want/need and only that. No crappy components you never gonna use and no pre-installed bloatware that serves no other purpose than spying on you. Yeah, deffo go that route, make the computer YOUR OWN and show a finger to HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and what else ^^

It's a work machine - No, it's not. Apple products don't fit into most definitions that qualify a work machine. Least of all, the MacBook Air. The usability is very very restricted to just a handful tasks ... that can be done evenly well, and better, by most other products. Oh, and if it's really a work machine then SL has no place on it anyway. instead of scolding me on something that is really none of your business why don't you either try to assist me or don't reply? It became my business the very moment you decided to start a forum thread. Because, guess what, from time to time I'm a member of the forum as well. And I found my response rather helpful since it will hopefully help you making a wiser hardware decision the next time.

Not sure a scolding is helpful "Scolding"? I needed to look up that term in the dictionary and I find it doesn't fit what I did there. It's the typical forward-thinking German way to respond to problems; direct, without any smooth talk and hopefully helpful in future decisions on hardware. Because for now there is no real help, nothing we can do other than to donate a new computer for the poor guy. And I myself ain't made of money neither, sorry.

Any suggestions? (Besides get a more powerful machine - im not made of money lol) But that, in my eyes, is the only solution. Alone the fact that you sunk a crazy amount of money into a useless Macbook Air tells me you have more than enough money for powerful machines. But you decided you wanted something fashionable instead, something to look good in the airport lounge, in the boardroom or in the hotel lobby; something that screams out "I have more money than brains!" Who needs lots of fast RAM, who needs a reasonable cpu, who needs dedicated graphics, who needs all that stuff anyway if you can look so sexy? It was your decision to get a chic lady's purse rather than a good sturdy computer. Now deal with it.

Hm, of course it's better than your old stuff but not really convincing and absolutely not future proof. Please do yourself a favour and save up like 2 more months or so (or beg, steal and borrow) and make that GPU a GTX660 and the CPU a i5. I know nothing about digital storm but have you researched other sites as well? Assuming you're in the US Newegg.com or so may be cheaper.

Congratz on your decision to leave the n00b ghetto and mingle with the big guys but don't forget the free 512 ... 1) doesn't mean it's totally free. You won't have to pay tier for it but you have to purchase the parcel. 2) your house will count against the total prim allotment, while your LL home didn't. You used to be able to use all 117 prims for yourself, now most of them will be used for the house alone.

Fuer SL wuerde ich immer Nvidia GPUs empfehlen, mindestens GTX Serie. Hab mal eben schnell was bei Atelco gefunden. Passt sogar gerade eben noch in dein Budget. :matte-motes-nerdy:

You by any chance on LL's very own V3?

I finally figured it out woohooo!!! Noooo, shouldn't be like that. Can't be like that. Makes absolutely no sense. Amethyst was correct. Most (or at least many) of us having the same problem ... all the time. It really boils down to precacheing and/or lack of bandwith/speed. Don't you have the same effect with other textures as well? Not just in picture frames but everywhere in world? If ithe problem was connected with your profile pic at all it should load much faster since your viewer has already precacheed that specific texture. One possible solution would be to max out your viewer's textures memory, all the way up to 512 MB.

c) If someone is snooping on me, they will soon get bored and snoop on someone else instead. To me this sounds like the explanation most germans gave us after WW2: "I kept my mouth shut coz I wasn't a jew, a gypsy or a socialist ... and I never thought things would turn out so bad in the end." That style of ignorance made it very posssible for the worst things to happen. So better brace yourself, winter is coming. No, it's not coming, the latest NSA actions are already the first blizzards. Many of your un-american fellow resis have warned you about the USA and UK becoming fascist countries. All the signs and historical refernces are already in place, it has actually started. And all I hear is a "HOO! \o/ Calm down, you hysterical commie propaganda cow and let's party." :smileysad:

Hm, this San Quentin you're talkin' about seems to be a very nice place. Lots of innocent people there. :smileyhappy:

No, she hasn't misread. SL's latest viewer generation is V3. So if you are still in a V2 then ... oh well, I guess you can't even log in. Anyway, waht worries me more is your onboard graphics chip. LL doesn't support Intel HD stuff. But since you're on a Mac you're trapped with what you got. :smileyindifferent:

As always there is the question: was it porn or just nude photos? Was it porn or art? Where I come from it's perfectly legal to portray naked persons of any age and to publicly display those images with their (or their parents if under 18) permission. Since you said yourself it was a museum, not a sex shop, I can see nothing wrong with those pictures ... as long as they aren't doing "it". Because only that would qualify them as porn.

So LL expects us to act like grown up, independant, responsible and reasonable people? Like if we had any interest in virtual worlds 'n stuffz? How dare they???

run some flavor of Linux like Baloo suggested only if you like fussing with it constantly; Linux isn't out of the box friendly to as many programs and pieces of hardware as Windows. Oh my. When was the last time you installed a Linux distro? Back in the stone age? I'm a clueless ungeeky housewife, installed Linux Mint and am in computing heaven ever since. Everything, and I mean EVERY FUKN THING, was running straight out of the box. Mobo, CPU, DVD burner, internal and external HDs, mouse, keyboard. It was all there. And now the best part: I run the hardware detection tool, it immediately found my Nvidia card and gave me a selection of proprietary drivers. So I installed the latest Nvidia drivers available for Linux directly from source. Like always in Linux it was a one click operation, no need to burn a DVD or anything. Drivers and software updates are not forced on you, like in Win but you'll see a little icon on screen and can do it when and if you find the time. And it's all so fresh. Happens every couple of days: one click and 2 minutes later you have the freshest, most actual and secure system in the world! OS and additional software, all in one go. Also there is no need to waste any time with maintenance, as you don't need to clean your registry, you don't need any voodoo speed-up programs, no anti-virus software and ... I don't even run a firewall. Can't be much more complete and still uncluttered and clean than with Linux. And I have all that without even opening my DVD tray once! Installed Mint from USB stick and got all the other stuff over the interwebz with some simple mouseclicks. I spend more time being productive now than worrying about my machine. Ease of mind that Windows could never give me. So no constant fussing for this housewife. Install and forget about it.