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We're The Great Old Ones Now

20:42 / 14.05.02

I have lust.
I don't usually feel this way.
I sort of can't quite believe it - I'm not generally attracted to, um...
It's just...it's so perfect...

The new iMac.

Nearly gorgeous enough to make me change sides - again.

20:51 / 14.05.02

Step back. That path can only lead to madness and heartbreak. Embrace the beautiful grey boxy PC.

20:52 / 14.05.02

most PCs are ugly-looking bastards, but there are some nice laptops out there

you're not talking about that Mac that looks like a desk lamp, are you? that's an appalling thing

20:54 / 14.05.02

*harumf*

I'll bet those RAM chips of hers are implants.....

20:57 / 14.05.02

oh come on

You have some sort of strange fetish if you fancy that thing. Did you fancy that bouncing lamp in that Pixar animation, too?

21:01 / 14.05.02

Oh-kay. That is one strange looking computer. That is a computer, isn't it? Where's the keyboard and the mouse?

21:07 / 14.05.02

Oooooh, this is the one that follows all that dude's movements in the new commercial, right?

Y'know, much as Macs, and particularly iMacs are maligned by most people I know, my girl Reason has a Mac for all her wrok stuff and it's broken down maybe once in the last few years, compared to my computer that's constantly in need of service. If it wasn't for the ubiquity of IBM et al., I'd be a Mac man myself.

Zoom.

21:09 / 14.05.02

MACs are great computers. The only problem I have with them is the lack of software.

21:11 / 14.05.02

that computer is fast as a motherfucker, costs next to nothing, looks cool -- or at least interesting -- and burns fucking dvds. everyone should have one, just to support the idea that computer designers should be thinking about what they do and appealling to more than the most practical of brain-enslaving technologies.

04:41 / 15.05.02

I'm with Trijhaos & Zoom about Macs. They're great computers, but it's so damn frustrating finding software (read: games) for 'em. I did find these cool PC's for your perusal & oggling of fans of Biohazard...

Motorhead...

& The Blue Man Group...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

07:52 / 15.05.02

It's not the way it looks.

It's the sheer magnificence.

Ask Tom.

But also, actually, I don't play a lot of games, and most of the ones I do are available for Mac. And frankly, these days, if you want games games games, you buy a console.

And they network smoothly with PCs.

And...grrrrryyyyummy...

08:28 / 15.05.02

That ad makes me think of velociraptors (sp?)... Scary moving monitor thingy.

11:46 / 15.05.02

The thing that jerks me about the new iMac is that, yeah, it's got the pretty flat screen and all, but it's only fifteen inches. Who in the design community (Apple's hard core) is going to be satisfied with such a small endowment? I really think the designers missed the boat on this one.

Molly Shortcake

12:48 / 15.05.02

A 15" flat panel display has no curvature and has a viewable area equal to a 17" CRT. The target demograpic for the machine is the mid end user. The towers are geared towards graphic proffessionals, scientists and the like. Apple dosen't make much money on the G4 Imac. It's simply a move to gain market share.

A dual 1Ghz PMG4 will perform a gaussian blur in Photoshop % 78 faster than a 2GHz Pentium 4.
The next upgrade to the towers (july or August) is rumored to have a 400 / 500 mhz BANDWIDTH. I can't even begin to imagine the kinds of video games possible wiht that kind of power.

'Sides i hate playing games on my Mac. That's what my Playstation 2 and Canon HMD GT270 are for.

Yes, I am typing this on a PowerMac G4 800mhz Quicksilver w a 17" flat panel display (work machine).

Molly Shortcake

12:51 / 15.05.02

And Nick, count yourself as one the estimated % 60 of Mac users (by my account) who buy the machine on pure looks.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:27 / 15.05.02

Hmm, think again. I worked on Macs for years because the pro software I use was not available on a Windows platform. Then Mac priced themselves out of the market and I threw myself reluctantly onto the pyre of Windows, viruses, crashes, grey boxes and short battery lives.

Now I could really go for a brave new Mac World...[sigh]

13:35 / 15.05.02

linux, people, linux, if you don't like windows, geez

no need to pay twice as much as you need to for a paperweight with a screen attached

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:57 / 15.05.02

Yah. 'Cos, you know, there's Linux Final Draft and Linux Movie Magic and Linux Adobe Premier, and all that stuff. It's not like you can't find excellent Word Processing software for Linux. And there's no problem learning to use it for the less-than-computer-supersavvy...

Molly Shortcake

13:58 / 15.05.02

Good to know your fetish dosen't determine your purchasing habits. Now about those people buying a Gamecube cuz it's cute....

Speaking of which the GC is basicly a Mac and the Xbox a PC while the PS2 is off in some strange land of it's own....

OS X runs on a (configurable) Unix underbase, that has features not available on standard Unix or Linux. Don't know much about it myself but I'll trust the Apple engineer who told me all the stuff I forgot right away.

Macs are more expensive but there's usually ALOT less headaches involved. Think of PCs as Frankensteins monster where all the pieces are fighting with each other, while the Mac hardware and software are married.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:30 / 15.05.02

Speaking of which the GC is basicly a Mac and the Xbox a PC while the PS2 is off in some strange land of it's own....

Amstradistan?

*Ages 200 years in 30 seconds before the eyes of the horrified 'Lithers*

16:43 / 15.05.02

PS2 RULES !

ALL YOU GC AND X-BOX USERS ARE SO LAME! GET A REAL GAMES SYSTEM !

** I can't comment on any of this I bought a 3DO

but I think I'm going to buy a GC next month **

16:57 / 15.05.02

Pffbbbbt!

Consoles Suxx0rs!! Get a real gaming machine. PC all the way!!

17:55 / 15.05.02

I've got an iMac at work and it's really lovely. I tried Mac and I never went back. I've been using Macs for work for over two and a half years now, and bought myself one nearly two years ago and I've NEVER regretted it. Particularly when OSX came out, because frankly it's amazing...

Yes, it's absolutely true. There isn't quite the range of software that you can get on a PC. Absolutely true. But what's the software that you actually use? AIM? Office? Music software? I've not found a single piece of software that I've actually WANTED to use that I couldn't.

The only thing in which it's clearly not true is games. There are DOZENS of games for the Mac. But unfortunately, there are THOUSANDS for the PC. If you want to play games, don't get a Mac. Or at least not yet. Strategy games are more well catered for, and some of the shooting games work really well (unreal tournament), but generally you buy a Mac because you want to work or build or design or create.

Plasticbag.org / Barbelith were both designed on Macs. Plasticbag was built on a mac....