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The Odds at Macworld
Moby Cock writes "Jason O'Grady has posted the odds on what is to be announced at the Macworld Expo beginning next week. Coming in at 100:1 is OS X 10.5 and even money on a new and sexy Intel Mac Minis and iBooks. Gentlemen, start your credit cards."
"sexy Intel Mac Minis and iBooks."
What idiot is waiting around to blow their money on the Intel based garbage Apple is about to crap out sometime in 2006???
Yes, the computing world is just waiting around to pay for overpriced, Intel only Apple proprietary hardware!
I can't wait to see Jobs get up in front of the Mac loonies and start spouting off about Intel SPEC scores from Intel's SPEC compiler. Integrity? Say whaaaaattt???
Don't cry Mac loonies, I hear Intel has some killer chips coming out next year. Or was it the year after that...
Well, with the odds being so good, I plan on selling my G5 2.0. I have been waiting for this, as if the laptops are truly coming, I can quit using my ThinkPad for work.
I am excited, can't wait. This week is CES, next week Macs. Whoohoo!
What a fucking imbecile.
"Intel VIIV looks promising."
It is so fucking sad that the only people Apple has left supporting them are garbage like you.
Great, I can't wait. The droning on of mac users about how "great" their system is, and how its "so much better" than Windows is what I look forward to.
I guess sales of aluminum polish and cleaning products will go up, and worldwide productivity down.
-Brett
"I think Mac zelots (arguably myself included) are more enamored with the OS than the hardware."
What a fucking moron.
Look around you and see what a fucking joke the Apple world has turned into.
Yes, nothing but worthless fucks like you. Fucking sad.
Oh, man, that's gotta hurt the Mac zealots even more than the switch to intel. Apple hiring *PC laptop designers* to build the next Powerbook.
Uh, no, actually I couldn't care less. I was happy about the Intel switch - despite Apple's marketing, Motorola and IBM just haven't been able to deliver the same performance in the G4/G5 as Intel and AMD have with the x86 chips.
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The Apple discussions are about the only ones where I have got no fucking clue what most of the posters are gibbering on about. It's all iThis, iGarage, iRobot, iThat, Front Row, Dashboard.....and fuck knows what else.
About the only terms I understand are "X86", "two button mouse", and "Steve Jobs wearing black"
No but, yeah but, no but...
"Motorola and IBM just haven't been able to deliver the same performance in the G4/G5 as Intel and AMD have with the x86 chips."
Holy Shit!
It is hilarious, in a sad sort of way, to think of all those stories bragging about how much smarter Apple users are supposed to be.
And now with IBM dumping Apple and forcing them to turn to Intel we are seeing what a bunch of fucking morons Mac users really are.
Do you have any clue just how fucking stupid you sound to someone who actually knows the relative performance levels and gains of PowerPC chips over the past five years compared to Intel?
But wait, Jobs got up on stage and told you as part of his damage control WWDC keynote to start hating PowerPC since IBM dumped his ass late the previous year...
Good boy dummy! Now roll over!
Where did you learn to count? People count one, two, many.
They'll publish an N-button mouse in tradition of the transition from one to two button mice, for a meager price of $20 + $20 * N, or $60 for a 3-button mouse or only $240 for a 12-button mouse. The traditional two-button mouse will be priced down from $50 to $40 with the one-button mouse staying at $20.
Sad thing is, all Mac software assumes one button so those extra buttons will be doing pretty much nothing the next few... decades or so...
O'Grady is a tool. The odds of him getting any prediction right, based on his history at PowerPage and now this blog, are about 10,000,000,000:1
Nothing new there, actually. You hire motherboard designers who have experience... guess what type of chipset they last designed around ? Making the decision to hire former PC laptop designers was even easier this time around...
Frankly, I guess I don't count as a zealot since I don't care who designs my hardware, as long as it doesn't suck.