I couldn't decide on a name, and eventually whenever my older brother called the dog, he would point at it and say "Hey you!" Being five years old, I figured he had come up with a name.
White is a color, or rather a bunch of them, and the white that Apple uses on the new iMac to me is blinding.
It may seem to disappear behind the screen, I haven't had the chance to try one yet, but I certainly won't buy one until I do get the chance.
With the base on the desktop there are going to be cords to remind me that it's there, and they'll get in the way. I can't stand having cords running across my desk, it just annoys me.
"And as for the "normal people", an argument could be made that the freak dancing in the iPod commercial is still more "normal" than Jeff Goldblum."
You got that one right, although my wife remarked on their physical resemblance when she first saw the commercial.
If the damned base were not such a blazing shade of white, if the frame around the LCD were not reflective, if there weren't a bunch of cables snaking across the desk, if I could forget about the artsy fartsy aesthetics of the damned thing and just use it (thus my reasoning for resigning Jobs to the Apple campus where he belongs), then yes I would buy one.
Face it, the computing power is "good enough". The OS is "good enough" (although too damn shiny). There's no need to draw attention to the fact that there is anything there. So make it easier to forget that it's there and I'd be willing to purchase one.
Well considering that Mercedes and Chrysler merged and that BMW also owns Mini and that neither company depends solely on luxury cars for their revenue...
The new iMac is pretty, and it's pretty cool too. The same can be said for OsX, plus it's stable.
The problem is that they're TOO pretty. They're too pretty to blend into the background the way a useful tool should.
Take the new iMac, add wireless KB and mouse, tone down the colors, push the virtual PC bit and get normal people to do the commercials.
Let us stiffs forget that Steve Jobs ever existed. Let me forget the whole mystical daisy like aesthetic. Let me forget about how easy it will be to edit video I don't have time to shoot and move music to the iPod I'm not going to buy.
Just make the whole machine transparent, let it blend into its surroundings and take its place among the other appliances of the world.
Then I'll buy one.
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Well the omnicluster units can use either standard ide drives (or a lptoip drive with adapter), or they can use the drives in whatever sytem you plug them into. We had one of their reps by last week, and expect some test blades soon.
THe omniclusters can also use the pci bus as a high speed network between blades on the same bus.
Slick idea all around, and could be useful in some applications (we're going to test them as citrix servers).
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Heh, I had a dog named heyyou when I was a kid.
I couldn't decide on a name, and eventually whenever my older brother called the dog, he would point at it and say "Hey you!" Being five years old, I figured he had come up with a name.
Damn I miss that mutt.
Say it! Say her name!
You know you want to.
C'mon, you can do it.
MacBeth!
"Scottish play" indeed.
It's true.
See http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.19.98/s cientology-9811.html
Ya, snuff is definately better.
Hey, it was the only way I could kick my addiction to nicotine gum!
White is a color, or rather a bunch of them, and the white that Apple uses on the new iMac to me is blinding.
It may seem to disappear behind the screen, I haven't had the chance to try one yet, but I certainly won't buy one until I do get the chance.
With the base on the desktop there are going to be cords to remind me that it's there, and they'll get in the way. I can't stand having cords running across my desk, it just annoys me.
"And as for the "normal people", an argument could be made that the freak dancing in the iPod commercial is still more "normal" than Jeff Goldblum."
You got that one right, although my wife remarked on their physical resemblance when she first saw the commercial.
Yes, that's what I'm telling you.
If the damned base were not such a blazing shade of white, if the frame around the LCD were not reflective, if there weren't a bunch of cables snaking across the desk, if I could forget about the artsy fartsy aesthetics of the damned thing and just use it (thus my reasoning for resigning Jobs to the Apple campus where he belongs), then yes I would buy one.
Face it, the computing power is "good enough". The OS is "good enough" (although too damn shiny). There's no need to draw attention to the fact that there is anything there. So make it easier to forget that it's there and I'd be willing to purchase one.
Well considering that Mercedes and Chrysler merged and that BMW also owns Mini and that neither company depends solely on luxury cars for their revenue...
You extend the analogy.
but Apple is sooo close to doing this right.
The new iMac is pretty, and it's pretty cool too. The same can be said for OsX, plus it's stable.
The problem is that they're TOO pretty. They're too pretty to blend into the background the way a useful tool should.
Take the new iMac, add wireless KB and mouse, tone down the colors, push the virtual PC bit and get normal people to do the commercials.
Let us stiffs forget that Steve Jobs ever existed. Let me forget the whole mystical daisy like aesthetic. Let me forget about how easy it will be to edit video I don't have time to shoot and move music to the iPod I'm not going to buy.
Just make the whole machine transparent, let it blend into its surroundings and take its place among the other appliances of the world.
Then I'll buy one.
Well the omnicluster units can use either standard ide drives (or a lptoip drive with adapter), or they can use the drives in whatever sytem you plug them into. We had one of their reps by last week, and expect some test blades soon.
THe omniclusters can also use the pci bus as a high speed network between blades on the same bus.
Slick idea all around, and could be useful in some applications (we're going to test them as citrix servers).