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MacBook in a newly designed, sleek white enclosure
A WHITE apple product!? you must be kidding!

and [...] in a stunning new black enclosure.
BLACK LAPTOPS!? no way! what ultra-ingenious artist could come up with such an idea? I'm totally stunned! http://www.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/Compass/Comp ass1.JPG

The new MacBook offers performance up to five times faster than the iBook and up to four times faster than the 12-inch PowerBook
does that mean it overheats five times faster or does that mean apple sues people five times faster who point such disadvantages out publicly?

which, in my opinion looks how laptops should look ;)

I should have said raster versus vector. If you look closely at bitmaps, say fonts for example, you see the associated map of pixels. Postscipt fonts in comparision are determined by equations, and remain the same detail, even as you zoom in.

I had a Wang with no hard drive. Now I have a wang that's always hard, but never driven. My parents doomed me in their prophetic first choice of computers. :(

Reminds me of the Joyboard.
But I bet you can't sit and meditate on this one.

guru meditation n.

Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix (sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event'). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. Sometimes a guru event must be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch.

This term is (no surprise) an in-joke from the earliest days of the Amiga. An earlier product of the Amiga corporation was a device called a `Joyboard' which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would calm down by concentrating on a solution while sitting cross-legged on a Joyboard trying to keep the board in balance. This position resembled that of a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed fairly early on (but there's a well-known patch to restore it in more recent versions).

To me guru meditation always looked like blinking BSOD (a.k.a black screen of death :)

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• The story was called "Examination Day" and was written by Henry Slesar.
• This episode first aired in November 1, 1985, in the first year of the new Twilight Zone series(it only survived 3 years).
• From here I found that it was based on his short story which appeared in the Feb '58 issue of Playboy.
• From here I found that the Playboy short story was written under his psuedonym of Sley Harson.

• The story was called "Examination Day" and was written by Henry Slesar.
• This episode first aired in November 1, 1985, in the first year of the new Twilight Zone series(it only survived 3 years).
• From here I found that it was based on his short story which appeared in the Feb '58 issue of Playboy.
• From here I found that the Playboy short story was written under his psuedonym of Sley Harson.