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Top 10 Personal Computers, Revised
rebelcool writes "Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle has revised his Top 10 PCs of all time, mainly as a result of this Slashdot story. He addresses many of the replies written to him wondering why X system wasn't on the list in Y position, but also chose to replace the Apple Newton with the Amiga A1000."
AOL's $299 PC?
The bigot!
Goes to show that united geeks carry weight.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
that slashdot readers are a "linux advocacy" community?????
...just to make sure he never makes the same mistake again, that'll teach him!
Jonathanjk.com
For my 2 bit computer to make the list...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Woohooo! :-)
Unfortunately, memory protection wasn't one of these things...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
For the love of god, it's spelled HOBBYIST.
no iBook!? how can this be?? Steve said it was insanely great!! he wouldn't lie!, would he?
I believe the MiniTel was setup in the late 70s, which of course IS long before Microsoft invented the internet with the introduction of Windows 95....
First they burn books, then they burn people.
If anything the iMac brought us into the rice boy age of computing, with EM-inducing cold cathods, non-EM-blocking windowed cases... Hey mang, I'm gonna put shorter stick-on rubber feet on my PC... lowering kit! Or you could use a file on the existing ones, that's equivalent to cutting your springs.
You seem to suggest that we should all be grateful for the iMac making it possible for us to order computers in a specific color, but all it's really done is that PC manufacturers are now mostly making black cases, which they should have done a long time ago. The demand was clearly there. (Gateway should make cow-spotted cases, too. I've lost track of the number of people I know who've said they'd buy a gateway if they did.)
The Macintosh showed that people wanted good looking computers on their desk, down to the appearance of the OS itself. The iMac only proved the point.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So the SGI systems I had before the iMac where beige and not the purple, teal, red and black that they looked like? How about the old 286 I had with a transparent plastic case, was that beige? Hell, how about the ACER PCs that where purple and black, where those beige as well? Seems that exposure to Apple computers makes you color blind.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
What? How could he forget AOL's $299 PC?
That is a prison term, not a computer.
No, this is AOL's PC.
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I bet the dewey beats truman guy wished he could go back and change the news like this!
There is no computer.
Those new-fangled 32-bit address spaces with virtual mappings in the System/390 are a kids toy.
Real men use the System/360
Jason
ProfQuotes
Oh yeah, that argument again. "I stuffed the ballot, but the Mac still won. Maccies simply must have cheated. " Those 5% must be really clever hackers.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
In the spirit of things, I've compiled my own list of the Top 10 most amusing entries from the top 10 most "important" lists from Houston Chronicle writer, Dwight Silverman:
10. Most important places to live: #1. "Houston"
09. Most important Teletubby: #8. "Winky"
08. Most important color: #3. "Burnt Sienna"
07. Most important bathroom toiletry: #1. "Air Freshener"
06. Most important sea creature: #2. "Frog"
05. Most important car: #6. "AMC Pacer"
04. Most important medical treatment: #3. "Botox"
03. Most important spice: #1. "Fennel"
02. Most important career: #1. "Writer for Houston Chronicle"
01. Most important computer: #1. "Compaq Portable"