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Agreed in part! There are some minor problems that aren't going away, but on my G3/400 RC2 feels far more usable. Or perhaps it's just the weekend, and I'm in a better mood than when I downloaded RC1.

Chimera is nowhere near as complete guiwise, but it's oh so lovely to look at...

a grrl & her server

...and all new hardware required, and implemented horrifically draconian anti-copy-anything protection which both took away the ability to copy for reasonable use, or took away nick the l337 h4X0r's ability to copy 'stuff', ancient second hand hardware, free hardware, is going to become rather desirable. Best start warehousing a few spare boxies.

OK, that's tongue in cheek, but it's one end of an extreme where computers are pushed to being made less and less useful. When I look at it bringing about such strong change like that, it feels it can't happen. Am I being too optimistic?

Besides - if all your old hardware gets too slow - buy a few more and beow.... you get the idea :D

a grrl and her server

Those spikes look absolutely fascinating - and I'm sure it'll be my descendants who run around going "whoa... this looks so cool...". All us mildly arty types will go camping out under the spikes

What I find a bit funny is for such a dangerous place, the concept sketches seem to show -tourists- running around the place. Best hope they have x-ray film in their cameras... :)

a grrl & her server.

It took me an enormous AT tower to make a self-contained water cooled desktop.

Perhaps the use of the fact laptops move n shift about constantly could be used somehow to help shift fluid around. It wouldn't help while the machine is on a desk, but as a little extra aid in-transit when quietness may be more necessary it may make the difference

a grrl & her server

Notebooks are doing some incredible things in the way of upping power/features/screen size/etc while shrinking drastically in size and weight - and ending up with some problems such as heat dissipation. In my mind the biggest advantage to a notebook apart from its' portability, is the weight issue - not size. Surely giving quite a bit more space inside the box isn't going to add all that much to weight, may bring a laptop an extra half inch higher while increasing air cooling possibilities incredibly.

I can see that laptops have a high 'just plain sexy' component, which isn't likely to go away. A rep in a former workplace of mine insisted on one of the top Compaq notebooks, when his only need was for a PDA. Thin does sell for many people, but for me an iBook or TiBook would be just as nice at twice the depth.

a grrl & her server

Yes I love my iMac, but I also love OSX, I love the -underneath- of OSX, and I love my Linux-powered-Quadra-605-webserver

I certainly don't know everything there is about all things IT, but I can throw myself in pretty deep sometimes.

As much as the all-white is part of the Apple lineup now, it doesn't seem the ideal 'colour' for a school environment. Being a rather smooth plastic however, is another matter that counts in the positives. I could really see the use in grubby-finger-hiding-patterns. Keep it fun for the littleuns too...