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Want To Know About the New Apple MacBook Pro?
An anonymous reader writes to tell us about an extremely helpful user who is answering questions from all comers about the new MacBook Pro. "A few days ago, a user by the name 'bcavanau' posted on the macrumors.com forums that he had just picked up a new MacBook Pro. Forum members started asking him about features, specifications, and benchmarks. He was happy to oblige, posting responses to everyone's questions. Eventually the forum thread got out of hand, and he set up a website devoted to answering the questions. If you have a question that hasn't already been answered, email him at the address on the site. He is responding daily and sometimes within minutes. This guy is dedicated. Thanks 'bcavanau', you get two thumbs up." The link to the site is cached via the Coral Content Distribution Network.
Is Apple still including hardware DRM (AKA treacherous computing) in all its new Macs? If so, why would any self-respecting technically aware user buy a machine that has been so hobbled?
Go ahead and mod me troll or flamebate but all this gush, gush, squirt, squirt over a f**king laptop just seems so bizarre. Perhaps it is because I had way too much French white wine tonight, a rare treat for me, with my wonderful fish dinner and things appear closer than they really are but doesn't this bcavanau character seem a bit contrived? He is able to answer hundreds of questions almost instantaneously and all of a sudden he has his own web site, with ads no less. All due to his new macbookpro, I suppose.
I am queueing up in my mind all the 'warm your coffee on your pentium' jokes presented by Macnuts a decade ago. Which reminds me of all the bluster that 'RISC is the future' and 'the Pentium is a joke' etc. etc.
Enjoy your Pixar cartoons, kiddies!
Anybody who says anything negative in a apple.slashdot.org thread is automatically a troll. And the phenomena is spreading, as Apple Product hype slowly melds out into offtopic areas of the site like hardware.slashdot.org.