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Nope, I've only got a single stick of RAM. My old motherboard probably doesn't support dual channel.

Yes, but to get the full game, you need a PC... and by PC I mean personal computer, not Apple's narrow definition of PC...

Nice to see the tide swinging back to PC again... Now my mid-range computer will actually be tested (instead of running games from 2005 and 2006...)

I think they are talking about putting Spore to the other consoles as well.

I have a brand new AMD Phenom with 4GB of ram running Vista 64bit with an 1 Gb ATI Graphics cards. I ocassionally crash, get tearing graphics when leaving orbit. It could have something to do with the fact I bought a premade PC true but it is a very graphic intensive game.

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Or "Politically Correct", why not? Bah. Pretty bad puns, all of them.

I actually had less of a problem calling an apple machine something other than "PC" back in the days of the G series, since they had different processor architectures then. Nowadays apples use the Intel x86 chips, meaning that they are more like PCs than Apple would like to admit. However, since apple's primary user base is the group that knows the least about computers, they can parrot off the same argument over and over and people will believe them...

WTF are you talking about their is nothing personal about the PC, mac are made for the common man and what he wants. The PC is about as personal as a personals ad with the title "will do anything for 8 bucks an hour".

the tide has never swung for MAC. I greatly prefer MACs but I can't afford the MAC equivalent speed that I have on my PC. It has allways irked me greatly to even own a PC since the GUI interface was stolen from Macintosh in the first place.

I'm talking about the fact that PC does, in fact, stand for "Personal Computer". That's the original definition of the term, going back into the 1970s when a computer that can fit on the top of a desk (hence the term "desktop"), such that each person could have their own. Before the advent of the PC, the only computers were large mainframes that users had to share (and as such, each person didn't have their own personal computer).



As for "stealing" stuff, if you want to talk about that, said argument of Microsoft "stealing" the concept of a graphical user interface from Apple can only apply to windows versions up to 3.1x. From Windows 95 onward, Microsoft's GUI has been dramatically different from UNIX-based OS GUIs. On a side note, one could also say that Apple "stole" the concept of permanent data storage (also known as a "hard drive") from the original IBM-compatible PC, but you never see people complaining about that...



PS: I have no problem with people being macfans, as macs do have their benefits. The thing is, though, that people need to not accept everything the mac ads say at face value. Apple has spent almost their entire existence trying to say that their brand of personal computer is not a personal computer, and that, specifically, is what bugs me.

as I do not really care. What you have to use is what you have. I have met MANY PC users who go out of their way to down talk Mac enthusiasts. Even thought they have never except for one occasion used a MAC. That in the Aspergian world especially is total bigotry and frankly it really pisses me off when people hate something just because they don't understand it. That and I am annoyed at what a saint they think Bill Gates it.

So yeah I was a little defensive and I apologize for that, a "learned" response hah hah hah........


The truth is most people I think can't afford a MAC and even then the software is so limited. I like to game and I am not wealthy so I use a PC yet I have a somewhat dated MAC too cause it makes me feel good, my first 'puter was a MAC and it changed my life in wonderful ways....

I'm now bored of Spore. The freezing at dog fights / repetititive attacks on your home planet by pirates / ecodisaster missions for your allies started to piss me off, so now I've uninstalled the game.

I only had it freeze on me 3 times, but the space phase in general was so boring and repetitive after a while that I have only beaten the game once. Eventually, once I had all the upgrades to my ship, I just colonized a planet just outside Grox space so I could easily resupply, stocked up on health and energy restore packs, and bolted for the center so I could beat the game...

The Space phase would have been better if it was smaller, say only a cluster of stars instead of the entire galaxy, which played like it does now, followed by a Galactic phase where you could control as many starships as you want in RTS format (or even Risk format if you wanted to), and use them to control the entire galaxy.

Yes, more starships would eliminate most of the disaster-related trouble.

A friend of mine got the game for her birthday, the game is fine, but it took about a hour to install, there where problems of the yin-yang.

Dosn't help that the computer is running vista either.

A true scientific spore:

http://www.framsticks.com/