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Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
 
Not that you'd care, but I went to MacWorld last week.


There was some great stuff:

Which is the new mac mini which houses a pretty capable 1.2 GHz G4, 256MB RAM, a 40GB hard drive and CD-burner/DVD ROM drive for $499. Which is, like, incredible for Apple. I mean for all the times I've heard about how expensive Macs are. This is a pretty great little computer. (I mean unless you want to play games.) You would need to supply the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But lookit how tiny it is! That's the CPU. Under my finger there. That's pretty neato, eh? You can pay more and really trick it out with a faster processor, Bluetooth and/or 802.11g, bigger drives and more memory, but then it starts getting expensive.

Also some less great stuff:

The iPod Shuffle. I think if Apple had pitched this as a USB flash drive that also plays MP3s, they'd really have something. But insisting that the lack of display is a "feature" isn't winning any points. Still 512MB for $99, and 1GB for $149 is the cheapest you're going to find an iPod. It is teeny tiny.

I got a processor upgrade for my aging G4 bringing it to 1.4GHz, and another for my old 7200 to make it a 400MHz G3. The G5 will have to wait a few months. I also picked up one of them video editing jog dials. Supersweet. To the ridiculously small contigent of Macheads on this board, I've got nothing but nice things to say about the friendly folks at Other World Computing.

Please now commence the mocking my computing-platform-of-choice/hairstyle.
 

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Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
 
You are a strange Andy Dick/Shady Liam hybrid.

[ January 23, 2005, 05:03 AM: Message edited by: Cartman ]
 

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Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
 
Actually, you remind me of that lead guy in Megas XLR. Yes, I do occasionally watch that cartoon.
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
Coop, and I watch that cartoon all the time. I want a giant robot car that chicks dig.

Anyway, the Mac Mini is definitely cool. I'm a bit concerned that it only has the two USB and one Firewire ports. I certainly wouldn't be able to hook up all my peripherals to it. Still, it's pretty neat and a space saver.

I don't like the iPod for the reason you said: no display. Plus, it's small enough that I know my cat would use it as a chew toy.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Macs are bad: they do that to your hair.
 

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
 
Yegods man, what did you do to your hair?
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Did you Photoshop yourself into the second pic?
That arm just does not look as though it could belong on your body.


...or you wear long sleeve shirts under short sleeve ones...(shudder)
 

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Timely!
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Looks like someone read waay too many old Bloom County comics.
 

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Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
 

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Originally posted by Cartman:
You are a strange Andy Dick/Shady Liam hybrid.

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Originally posted by Seigfried:
snip...I'm a bit concerned that it only has the two USB and one Firewire ports. I certainly wouldn't be able to hook up all my peripherals to it....snip

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
...or you wear long sleeve shirts under short sleeve ones...(shudder)

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What's wrong with that? Brad Pitt does it, and you can't say he isn't hunky.
 

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Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
 
I suppose Florida has always been a little ahead of the curve regarding fashion.
 

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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
By Florida law I must now say "It's goin' down!"

As to Brad Pitt: er......I guess I can say he's handsome in a deranged lunatic kinda way (much like how you'd never stop to pick up Vince Vaughn if he were hitching. Okay, you might).
 

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Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
 
He has a Hudson-beard.


 

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
 

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
As to Brad Pitt: er......I guess I can say he's handsome in a deranged lunatic kinda way

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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
As to Brad Pitt: er......I guess I can say he's handsome in a deranged lunatic kinda way

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Anyone who isn't insecure about his own hetrosexuality would say that Brad Pitt is obviously one of the sexiest men ever. Unless you are calling Edward Norton a big fat liar.

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Er...yeah.
When I consider a man handsome, it's more like "If I looked like that I'd have sooooo many women on me..." and not "he sure has a nice ass".

It's more idle jealousy than adoration.

You know, I was looking through some old LIFE magazines from the mid-fifties (for illustration references and coffee table reading) and was struck by how much people's facial features have changed in just 50 years or so.
Not just what we consider attractive, a lot of the adverage guys photographed a markedly...intresting looking.
 

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
 
Talking about Macs and bad style, a video of the 1984 presentation of the first Mac has recently been recovered from a private Mac-geek's archives. Behold the wonder of the GUI.
 

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Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
 
The wonder of the Xerox'ed GUI.

(Because... get it? GET IT?)
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 

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Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane:
That's what hubs are for.

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Originally posted by Cartman:
The wonder of the Xerox'ed GUI.

(Because... get it? GET IT?)

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No, I don't get it.
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
Xerox made the first GUI; Apple got into some sort of partnership/licensing agreement that let them observe Xerox's work on GUI and copy it. When Apple sued Microsoft over Microsoft's GUI (claiming theft), Xerox sued Apple (claiming to the be the rightful owner of the terms and features that Apple was suing Microsoft for).

Don't know how much faith you put into it, but Wikipedia has this to say:

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Jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC in December 1979, three months after the Lisa and Macintosh projects had begun. After hearing about the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC from former Xerox employees such as Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options. There is debate over the degree of impact that this visit had on Apple's products -- Apple's GUIs ended up working and looking differently from the PARC GUIs, and GUIs had been an active area of computing research since the late 1960s -- but it is clear that the Xerox visits were extremely influential on the development of the Lisa and Macintosh.

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Originally posted by Topher:
No, I don't get it.

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Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane:
I don't know what most people's desktops are like, Siggy, but I know a lot of people who use USB hubs and they're usually pretty dinky (certainly compared to you average tower case).

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My desktop has icons and Trillian on it. I hear that's usual for most people.

In all seriousness, I use a laptop. It beats a Mac Mini and a tower desktop is both terms of size and extra wires. For extra wires are bad when you have a cat. Besides, my desktop is a semicircle with a 1 ft. radius. Reason for veto vetoed!

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And all your friends will laugh at you. Because you're different. And that's bad.

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