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iPod Gets The Royal Nod

Posted by Zonk on from the scott-thompson-makes-a-good-monarch dept.

frostilicus2 writes "Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England seems to have taken quite an interest in technology recently. She's now getting hip and funky with an Apple iPod." From the article: "If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple's online jukebox, iTunes looking for 'hits' is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her."

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  1. Re:Wow.. by dduck · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    But that is the only and last Apple Hardware I will have. They announced last week, that they won't make good hardware anymore.

    Isn't that a teeny bit hysterical? I mean: I know that the elder of us geeks were raised on the idea that the CPU was somehow the mystic soul of the computer (despite the fact that very differently souled computers were based on the same CPUs), but it's been a while since that was true, if it ever was.

    As for the glory of the PPC: My Centrino-based, 512MB, 2 years old notebook performs on par with my G5 dual 1.8GHz with 2GB on CPU and memory intensive code that I wrote, despite desperate profiling (couldn't really believe that). Change could be good.

    I mean: Jeezz! Is the beauty of the assembly language of the PPC really that important?