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Poor lito, doesn't even have a mac.

Someone help Venezuala!
 

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psh, dont think he can tune our cars with a mac, mac ftl
 

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macs can run shitty windows 10 or even windows 7. A refurb last gen macbook pro would be ideal.
 

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I read a news story on this yesterday (Venezuela, not macs). It's something I've been following for awhile and it just doesn't seem to be getting better.

It didn't sound good at all. Increased violence, runaway inflation, the inability to get everyday goods like food or paper products or even medicine, rolling blackouts, and issues with government control of most things.

BTW we have an artificial tree. Every year it comes down from the attic but then it goes back up after Christmas. Looks the same every year.
 

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I do all my tuning with a Mac. Maybe if he tuned Coyotes too he could afford to upgrade lol

This is what I don't get. Why would someone want a Mac? More money for less performance.

I just don't get it. I attribute it to advertising the correct demographic.
 

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I used to think that way too, but my Mac has been the best computer I've ever owned. Going on 3 years now and it still runs like brand new. All of my PCs would have been in the trash by now. They would all slow down or parts would start breaking. When I bought my MacBook comparable PCs were actually the same price or more expensive and weren't as good.
 
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So 2 now equals 500?

No, is the same currency, inflation made the old bills useless. Is like suddenly your 100$ bill isn't worth a dime and your new biggest bill would be 20,000$. To make fucking joke worse is that it would still a Franklin.

Poor lito, doesn't even have a mac.

I am very happy with my Asus PCs, some are still working after 8+ years.

I do all my tuning with a Mac. Maybe if he tuned Coyotes too he could afford to upgrade lol

Now you are a tuner? go figure! :p
 

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I used to think that way too, but my Mac has been the best computer I've ever owned. Going on 3 years now and it still runs like brand new. All of my PCs would have been in the trash by now. They would all slow down or parts would start breaking. When I bought my MacBook comparable PCs were actually the same price or more expensive and weren't as good.

My current HP laptop works fine and is almost 4 years old. I use it everyday. Use it enough I had to replace the battery last year. I paid under $500 for it open box return (not a refurb and with Win7pro loaded). The closest thing to it is an i5 Apple for $900. The next upgrade from that is $1099 and those are current sale prices at Microcenter.

I haul it to the track, take it on vacation, hump it back and forth to work in a simple carry bag, etc. That HP takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Works fine, though about 10 keys have the letters worn off on the keyboard from the heavy use. I'd call that a shrewd purchase against spending no less than $900 (for the cheaper current macbook) on an Apple.

Good on you Lito for buying shrewd and being money wise on your PC investments. Asus is a great brand these days. Like many brands that started as a budget brand (another perfect example being LG) ASUS has really come on strong. Good stuff.
 

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Now you are a tuner? go figure! :p

Seasoned datalogger lol

My current HP laptop works fine and is almost 4 years old. I use it everyday. Use it enough I had to replace the battery last year. I paid under $500 for it open box return (not a refurb and with Win7pro loaded). The closest thing to it is an i5 Apple for $900. The next upgrade from that is $1099 and those are current sale prices at Microcenter.

I haul it to the track, take it on vacation, hump it back and forth to work in a simple carry bag, etc. That HP takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Works fine, though about 10 keys have the letters worn off on the keyboard from the heavy use. I'd call that a shrewd purchase against spending no less than $900 (for the cheaper current macbook) on an Apple.

Good on you Lito for buying shrewd and being money wise on your PC investments. Asus is a great brand these days. Like many brands that started as a budget brand (another perfect example being LG) ASUS has really come on strong. Good stuff.

Thats awesome for you! My experience with both Dell and HP haven't been so great. Over the last 12-14 years, I've owned my Mac, 2 Dells and 2 HP computers. The Dells and HP would slow to a crawl, no amounts of fresh installations and wipes would bring the speed back. Speakers would fail, keyboards breaking, batteries going out, chargers stop working, etc... My MacBook probably travels just as much as your HP does and still looks and runs like new.

Not everyone wants to spend that kind of money on a computer, and I spent a long time thinking about it. All of my friends that have them have the same things to say about them that I do. I shopped around A LOT and PCs that I priced with the same HD, RAM, and processor configurations were all the same price or more, with lower quality screens, plastic cases, weighed more, and less battery life. The Mac is a much nicer computer than any I've ever owned.

I was honestly just busting Litos balls. Any chance I can take a jab at him for not tuning my Coyote, I take lol. I really don't care what computers other people use. I know I'm happy with my Mac and wasn't too thrilled with my PCs once they started to get older.
 

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I used to think that way too, but my Mac has been the best computer I've ever owned. Going on 3 years now and it still runs like brand new. All of my PCs would have been in the trash by now. They would all slow down or parts would start breaking. When I bought my MacBook comparable PCs were actually the same price or more expensive and weren't as good.

Can't really comment on apple products other than owning an iphone 3gs for about 2 years. It was 2 years of hell. Every other iOS update would bring about different problems. The worst was one that seemed to half my battery life. Switched to a samsung galaxy s3 and never looked back. Still have that S3 5 years later, still works but I only use it for music and wifi stuff, I've had a Galaxy S6 Active for the last 2 years. It still blows all the S7's and S6's out of the water in performance and durability. My average battery life is 2 days, this is with conservative browser/email/text/short call use.

As for PC's, if it isn't user built, it's short-term junk. Although I try not lag behind more than 3 generations in processors, my current PC is 6 years old and hauls. My laptop is 2 years old and is marginally slower than my desktop. I feel the key to laptops is core hardware. Starting with a decent motherboard manufacturer and processor is most important as these are parts that are most difficult to swap & upgrade without purchasing an OS product key. If you start with a good base, all you need is quality RAM and a SSD. The ram most laptops come with is usually crap, generic stuff. The 1TB HDD mine came with was gutted first month, and got a 250gb samsung 840 EVO ($90), and a clean reinstall of windows (free when you register your device with microsoft). This is a tripple win upgrade. Not only will the SSD dramaticly improve your loading times (my boot up went from 1min 10 sec to 24 seconds to desktop fully loaded) but you get to dump the typical laptop brand bloatware windows OS and start with a clean install of a "pure" winOS. This frees up a ton of background resources over the bloated X-brand laptop OS that is filled with useless background programs/apps. As I said it's a tripple win, because if you spend an extra $8-$12 for a good USB3.0 2.5" external HDD enclosure, you can put the 1TB laptop drive (like mine) in it, give a quick format, and you now have all the storage space for music/photos/tune files portable whenever you need it, to keep the SSD freed up for actual programs/apps, and the real work (such as loading tunes/datalogging, or navigating porn sites 30-40% faster).

I haven't seen anything innovative from apple since the original iPhone. And they've made their product virtually unsupportable for tweaking/modification/customization. They want you to use their products as they intend, not how you see fit.
 

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https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/66bc6u/3_week_of_protest_in_venezuela_happening_today/

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He's alright. I know that he is at his house and safe(ish), but they were a little too close to the action today.
 
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My goodness I cannot believe all of this! Just a tip about tear gas, water for a few minutes then air. Don't go back to water or will reactivate and no rubbing.

I'm down for a go fund me! Lito it one of the nicest and honorable person I've ever had the pleasure to deal with and I've never even met him. I may even send him a paypal gift/tip for all the work and help he's given me. The guy really deserves it, goes above and beyond even when going through this.

How do we even start a go fund me for him lol? He need's to come to the states for sure.

Keeping you in my prayers Lito, stay safe over there. I'm willing to help if needed, even just email. Take it easy.
 

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My goodness I cannot believe all of this! Just a tip about tear gas, water for a few minutes then air. Don't go back to water or will reactivate and no rubbing.

I'm down for a go fund me! Lito it one of the nicest and honorable person I've ever had the pleasure to deal with and I've never even met him. I may even send him a paypal gift/tip for all the work and help he's given me. The guy really deserves it, goes above and beyond even when going through this.

How do we even start a go fund me for him lol? He need's to come to the states for sure.

Keeping you in my prayers Lito, stay safe over there. I'm willing to help if needed, even just email. Take it easy.

^^ For sure, I know I used up my tuning money a long time ago, and he still helps me all the time, I would definitely contribute some $$ to help him out.
 
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I meet him 1 month ago in spain and he is not a good person at all, he meet many people with mustangs and we all think same... now we are spending a lot of cash in mods. super hargers, Turbo kits, exhaust systems... LOL that country used to be the best in South America, is hard to understand that a 1 litre of milk is 5 dollars and fill up the gast tank is 10 cent.
 

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Thanks for your comments.

Hope all this takes us somewhere.

No need for fund me anything, thanks a lot.

And Santi, go finish your damn car, lol.
 

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yeah, how dare he provide us amazing 3v tunes to provoke us into buying superchargers and turbo's....DOWN WITH LITO
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Some of the commercial airlines have announced they are no longer flying into Venezuela. It's beyond a mess, it's now a dictatorship. Their money is worth nothing. Dunno why Lito doesn't get outa there..while he still can.
 

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