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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?
Don't you understand? This is Apple! That makes it newsworthy. forget the fact that i'm already using a laptop with the same basic configuration in hardware... it has an HP logo on it and that makes all the difference in the world.
My god, you think by now you'd understand that this is fanboydot. they'll cover any little thing about linux or apple but anything outside of that is too mainstream and thus is for nothing but stuff suits and joe sixpack. we like the kool aid here, a lot.
get with it or be modded down "overrated" because most of those who still get mod points (ie. who've done the slashdot goose step) use this convenient little loophole in the moderators system even though CmdrDildo claims that he's working on getting this coded out... for the last three years.
It's the land of crap and hypocrisy.
leaving the play *BSD hAs lost more
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.
Take your stupid fucking initialism and stick up your well explored arse.