Misfiring Neurons

Snow White

So after trying a couple of Mac computers on for size I finally broke down and ordered an iBook. Now I have a piece of polymer wrapped art work and a pile of assorted Macs that must find new homes via eBay (a desktop PC that is going to get the eBay boot also, one is already in Arizona). The moral of the story being that I am breaking even (at zero) on the other macs and will have sold two paid for PC computers to pay for this pretty new notebook. Why a Mac you ask? Well, after getting a particularly nasty windows based virus one night, my friend John told me he was buying a Mac, and I said to myself "what a damn good idea." I will have to write another post to tell you what a marvelous piece of software engineering OS X is, because I plan on using this one to tell you about the piece of nerd eye candy that is iBook. The thing is about the size of a piece of paper and one inch deep, is is brillant white over every square inch and has no doors or cheap feeling port covers. It is also like a pimped up lowrider with a glowing Apple logo on the back lid and a amber and green glowing disk around the AC adapter. It runs dead silent and so cool that you barely feel the heat under your hands while typing. I ask myself "why the hell does everybody not have one of these things?" And then I realize that it is the same reason that people shop at Walmart, in that if something is cheap people overlook style.

posted by Barry @ 1:17 AM