I did it
Perhaps the most common question asked of me in the last five years was whether or not I had an iPad ordered. I decided not to get one. Why? I don't need it. I travel with a 17" MacBook Pro and have an iPhone; I have a 24" iMac at work and at home. Why get an iPad?
Why did I get an iPhone? I didn't need it. But Misti, an assistant, got one, and after 30 seconds in my hand I had a moment of such overmastering technolust that I had an iPhone ordered in 15 minutes.
A friend sent me to a link to an article by Stephen Fry in Time. Don't worry about clicking on the link; I've done it twice and my computer hasn't picked my pocket yet, even the article is in Time, the silliest of the supposedly respectable magazines. Fry has done some wonderful work in television, and my favorite is as Jeeves in the Wodehouse classics. He's a good deal more self aware than the normal celebrity type so I tend to read and listen to him.
It seems, however, that the Bookstore will have serious content suppression:
I think what really made me press the order button though was some wag's definition of what Microsoft will release
Microsoft's answer to the iPad is the "Technical Automatic Material Peripheral Onboard Notebook," or TAMPON. Coming real soon.
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Really? How's that Windows 7 working for you? People say it's the best Windows--because it's the most Mac-like.
This obviously came from a forum about iPad humor, which was of course all gynecological.
And as for dumb: last quarter Apple made more money than MacroShaft. It's market cap is $219.71B; Macroshaft's is $265.92B. With MS having had a virtual lock on all enterprise for over 15 years that's not that impressive.
Oh come now Theo ! You're in a snit because SA's response was bone-crushingly funny , wicked , and as many see it...true.
Mutual friends of ours have tried ,over the years,to get me to leave my Windows XP for a shiny new Mac . What was off-putting was their zeal .. That my soul would burn forever in the fires of hell were I not to convert to Apple ! ( Think Hari Krishnas in the airport.)
I'm satisfied with my set-up and if my motherboard ever fries again I'll still go for a PC..even if I have to get Windows 7 ... because it suits my needs and I am familiar with the product.
Another valid reason for my choice of PC over Apple is you will NEVER see Bill Gates on Dancing With the Stars .
Oh come on, Otto. You need some backstory. I consider Nat's post to be an extreme example of closeted behavior. His daughter has a Mac. His mother has a Mac. He has an iPhone, as does his mother--those are Macs. His sister-in-law makes money in graphics design--with Macs. His nieces use Macs.
And when he's over at my office, as much as I admire and respect him, I'm never quite comfortable leaving him in the room with my Mac.
You never know with these closet cases. They'll say anything, you know.
Ah so ! Let me ask you this (because I don't know) can you add additional memory to an Apple , or in any way "hot-dog" it for more speed like you can with a PC ? Us "Gamers" want to know !
I'm never quite comfortable leaving him in the room with my Mac.
In addition to everything else I have said, Macs are damned liars. That wasn't me.
I asked Nat: "What was that really sophisticated computer I saw you with last night?"
"That wasn't a really sophisticated computer. That was my wife, er, my PC."
Sure you can add memory. You can get fancy video cards too, and even their fast portable uses an Intel i7 processor, which can use eight threads at a time. Mind-boggling.
I have 4GB on my 17" MacBook Pro and 4GB on Minerva, the database, and 4GB on this 24" iMac.
Oh, and for the geeks: for $1450 or so you can get a 512GB solid-state drive in the notebook. Next year for sure.
WHOA NELLY ! 515GB ? Hmmmmm.
Otto, look here for the computer. You can get a 500 GB regular hard drive, with different rotational speeds, or a solid-state drive.
And that threaded processor--all in a notebook?
Oddly enough that might be nice while even sharpening photos in Aperture.
I think I get it: Microsoft is so dumb that they could only ever manage to be the second company to inadvertantly name a product after a feminine hygiene product?
Am I even close?
How about this? If Apple actually did make tampons, they would cost 30% more, would hold 20% less, and would require Apple underwear in order to work at all.
Of course, no one could actually see you using one so, really, what would be the point?