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The point is that you showed up and d posted your forsale bs and your typical crap without spending any time finding out what this place is and what flies here. And on top of it vragged about your headfi post count like it was a badge of honor. We do all know you from there. You're the flaming asshat who brags about his spending in his fucking sig and who buys the gaudiest shit on the market regardless of how it sounds. So you got abused. Guess what? It's the internet, sorry about your thin skin. No one will protect you here.

Best thread on head-case, ftw. I'm not sure how you found this place, Todd, but perhaps you'd get less abuse if you didn't just show up to sell stuff? Naw, that probably wouldn't change anything. Carry on. I will give you a hint: reporting posts is more likely to get you mocked than get any result you'd like.

AppleTv then. I actually use a mac mini for that job. But the SMC lets you use a remote? I didn't realize.

Where in pa?

Seems like if you already have a mac, an airport express is a better choice

my kids music my wife motorcycles cigars beer

But there's also the "wife avoidance factor"

I'll give the opus as good a listen as I can at the dc meet, compared to my (hopefully by then sigma powered) apogee. If I like it, I really might want to do that

I need to figure out a way to squeeze an opus dac and an airport express into my m3

a 91 bmw 535i with 294k miles. Bought it on ebay, then chipped it. It's a rocket I have a higher ratio limited slip differential on the way next. It's a blast. And I'd bet I could get up to top speed on 27, if I were more manly. But 105 is probably fast enough for now.

At midnight, it's no problem But I really topped out at 105. But my car will DO 150, which is the point.

Alpine CDA-9851 w/ sirius connect, so I can listen to the grateful dead channel at 150mph.

3.91 limited slip differential from a 735 to put into my 535. Door lock actuators to go into the same 535.

Torx is the best choice, honestly. Least likely to strip. Hex next, philips last. And really, come on, more screws isn't to keep people out, it's to hold things together better. You'd be bitching that he put it together in a shoddy manner if he used fewer.

Not to mention a 2mm allen wrench is hardly a rare tool.

google is your friend

I'd recommend checking out the vizio sets at costco etc too. I bought 2 vizio 37" displays this spring (during a woot off), and couldn't be happier.

So gramma, tell us what it was like in the days before dirt

That's not what your signature says Nan. Besides, when I was in high school, I had to walk to school each day, both ways, in the snow, up hill. And I was happy with my sony earbuds that came with my cassette walkman.

ECU for my E34

Nate, I agree. That's why we have 3 laptops and a mac mini . The kids have a dell desktop I bought for them 3 years ago, but when the time comes, it'll be macbooks for them too.

Did you include things like firewire and comparable video boards, dvd burner, etc?

Ok, you've done that enough that I just have to correct you. It's i2s. Not is2.

I used froogle, and picked good quality parts. If you skimp on the quality, then I'm not gonna argue, you can definitely build a shitty linux box for less than an imac

I just specced out a full sized desktop comparable to the imac 2.8ghz core 2 extreme, and it was about $1400. Plus labor, plus additional clutter and desk real estate. No warranty. No operating system. No keyboard, no mouse. So add $175 for vista ultimate oem, and you're at $1575. Add $50 for a decent keyboard and mouse . $1625. So you're saving about $600, which is a decent amount of savings. But you're not getting the warranty, you're not getting the integration, and you're not getting the form factor. Not to mention, you're still not getting OS X, although theoretically you could get the hacked version that would run on that system. But really, the high end is just listed on the website to show it's possible. You can get a similar configuration but with the 2.4ghz processor and 1gb of ram, and a 250gb disk refurbed for $1450. Downgrade the above home built system to those specs and you're at about $1300.