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Apple - MacBook Air
I quite like it.
I shall now proceed to stab myself in the testicles with forks.
I think I'm going strange, or gay, or something, but I quite like it. It's tiny.
I gaurantee it will suffer from ASS issues (Apple Screen Syndrome) something chronic and will probably break if someone does something as daring as type on it, but if they've actually gotten past these problems that have plagued previous Apple products they might be onto a winner with that, which will mean that Proper Computer laptops are for once chasing after a Mac's ideas, rather than the other way round.
But the point is purely the size - oddly enough it's not a bad price either, for an Apple. Normally you'd have to mortgage 3 family houses and sell your prize winning hound, but you'd only need to sell one property to buy this one.
I might even get one to play with at work soon, and I'll try and break it then and provide a proper review
The above is the nicest thing I've ever said about any Apple product, ever, and will not be likely to say anything nice about them ever again. As you know, I'm HUGELY anti-Apple - lack of true innovation, stupid prices, poor quality for what you pay for and company ethics that would make a mass murderer blush all contribute to my dislike of them. I'm not going to start an Anti-Apple thread or anything like that, most of you know my views already and are free to have your own - but even these people are to be congratulated for doing something this useful. Not many are actually happy carrying around the full size laptops we've got currently.
I think Moo from IRC summed it up nicely btw:
[19:09] <moo`> apple's slogan should be "We make beautiful shit"
Soo, Apple have done the one thing we all thought impossible.
They have the ability to polish a turd.
I quite like it.
I shall now proceed to stab myself in the testicles with forks.
I think I'm going strange, or gay, or something, but I quite like it. It's tiny.
I gaurantee it will suffer from ASS issues (Apple Screen Syndrome) something chronic and will probably break if someone does something as daring as type on it, but if they've actually gotten past these problems that have plagued previous Apple products they might be onto a winner with that, which will mean that Proper Computer laptops are for once chasing after a Mac's ideas, rather than the other way round.
But the point is purely the size - oddly enough it's not a bad price either, for an Apple. Normally you'd have to mortgage 3 family houses and sell your prize winning hound, but you'd only need to sell one property to buy this one.
I might even get one to play with at work soon, and I'll try and break it then and provide a proper review
The above is the nicest thing I've ever said about any Apple product, ever, and will not be likely to say anything nice about them ever again. As you know, I'm HUGELY anti-Apple - lack of true innovation, stupid prices, poor quality for what you pay for and company ethics that would make a mass murderer blush all contribute to my dislike of them. I'm not going to start an Anti-Apple thread or anything like that, most of you know my views already and are free to have your own - but even these people are to be congratulated for doing something this useful. Not many are actually happy carrying around the full size laptops we've got currently.
I think Moo from IRC summed it up nicely btw:
[19:09] <moo`> apple's slogan should be "We make beautiful shit"
Soo, Apple have done the one thing we all thought impossible.
They have the ability to polish a turd.