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PowerBook, Because Lives Are On The Line

Posted by pudge on from the sir-yes-sir dept.

WCityMike writes "Major Shawn Weed, an intelligence planner with the Third Infantry Division, eschewed his Panasonic Toughbook because it wasn't fast enough in processing giant satellite and reconnaissance images. He put in a requisition for and received a PowerBook G4, the only Apple currently being used in the entire Middle East theater. 'Frankly, lives are in the balance here, so the quicker I can get stuff done accurately, the better,' Weed says."

2 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's not ruggedized. by eht · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    agreed, then lives really will be on the line, that and "I can't open your Word document"

  2. Lives are at stake? by Frantactical+Fruke · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm a bit unclear on this.

    Does he mean that the faster he can process those satellite images,

    the more lives they can bomb to pieces,

    or

    the less lives will be lost to friendly fire as the pilots shoot at everything that moves while they're waiting for targeting data?