I took apart a 20" iMac G5 today. It took 45 minutes to take it 100% apart (well, at least 100% as far as under warranty replacement parts are concerned) and put it back together.
Easy as pie, as long as you don't strip the screws like an idiot.
Plus, the midplane isn't very heavy or awkward at all, I'm not a burly geek girl, and I could handle it all by me onesy.
I will argue that it is clever. The iPod is made to be simple and efficient. It's not made to be this intense computing experience. It's made to be a music player with large capacity and a couple of fancy features, plus the ability to play media from one of the best legal downloading resources available. The general non-geeky public aren't going to buy something that they can't figure out. If they feel like it's too technical for them, they're going to be intimidated and then they've paid way too much for a hard drive that they're going to stick on a shelf somewhere. This is where the genius comes in. The iPod, like all Apple products, is made to be pretty and intriguing, but not mysterious. Just because it isn't a challenge to use doesn't make it any less scrumptious a product.
On top of that, I don't like the things that I personally use for fun to be complicated. I mean, I'm still a geek, so I still get my geek on when I'm not at work (tech support), but when I come home or when I'm on my own time, I don't constantly want to have to expend unnecessary brain power to get something to work. I just want to listen to my music to drown out the clods who think things should be more complicated than they are and want to make everyone's life harder than it should ever have to be.
Seamless interaction takes hundreds of brains full of effort, and I'm not going to criticize something for fulfilling its one solid intent and fulfilling it extremely well.
What I want to know is if they're going to be making all the music in all regions available to all the other regions that have itms available. I would KILL to be able to buy some J-Pop and local rock and folk music from parts of Europe in AAC (yes, I know,.ogg r0x0rz your s0ckz0rz, but AAC is readily available and still high quality). It would be so easy to access tons of new material (especially stuff that you just can't find in Texas, or most other states for that matter), which is one of the secondary purposes of itms (the first, of course, I won't argue is making money).
You know you're commenting on Slashdot when... you have to make several provisos to be sure you're understood.
Any Mac user who is delighted that a Microsoft icon looks "trustworthy" doesn't deserve their machine. I think we should send out some iNinjas to kill them and bring their machines back to me so I can make them happy and give them to deserving users who won't be complete retards.
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I took apart a 20" iMac G5 today. It took 45 minutes to take it 100% apart (well, at least 100% as far as under warranty replacement parts are concerned) and put it back together.
Easy as pie, as long as you don't strip the screws like an idiot.
Plus, the midplane isn't very heavy or awkward at all, I'm not a burly geek girl, and I could handle it all by me onesy.
I read the title of this article as "Sony's "iPod killer" Fails to Draw iBlood".
*sighs and shakes head sadly*
I once read /. during foreplay.
I think I'm the only one here who can say that.
Now I feel really dirty.
I will argue that it is clever. The iPod is made to be simple and efficient. It's not made to be this intense computing experience. It's made to be a music player with large capacity and a couple of fancy features, plus the ability to play media from one of the best legal downloading resources available. The general non-geeky public aren't going to buy something that they can't figure out. If they feel like it's too technical for them, they're going to be intimidated and then they've paid way too much for a hard drive that they're going to stick on a shelf somewhere. This is where the genius comes in. The iPod, like all Apple products, is made to be pretty and intriguing, but not mysterious. Just because it isn't a challenge to use doesn't make it any less scrumptious a product.
On top of that, I don't like the things that I personally use for fun to be complicated. I mean, I'm still a geek, so I still get my geek on when I'm not at work (tech support), but when I come home or when I'm on my own time, I don't constantly want to have to expend unnecessary brain power to get something to work. I just want to listen to my music to drown out the clods who think things should be more complicated than they are and want to make everyone's life harder than it should ever have to be.
Seamless interaction takes hundreds of brains full of effort, and I'm not going to criticize something for fulfilling its one solid intent and fulfilling it extremely well.
"I'm a loser, I pay for pussy."
I don't have to pay for pussy, I have one.
Which is more than we can say for you, obviously.
(Make no mistake, you have been pwned. kthxbi**)
/me points at HP
/me looks at apple.com... scrolls to bottom... "Extended iBook Logic Board..."
HA ha...
Oh. Damn.
aw crap, my cover's blown!
the story of the emperor's new clothes is not going to make any sense at all to our children.
What is this "vacation" you speak of?
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What I want to know is if they're going to be making all the music in all regions available to all the other regions that have itms available. I would KILL to be able to buy some J-Pop and local rock and folk music from parts of Europe in AAC (yes, I know, .ogg r0x0rz your s0ckz0rz, but AAC is readily available and still high quality). It would be so easy to access tons of new material (especially stuff that you just can't find in Texas, or most other states for that matter), which is one of the secondary purposes of itms (the first, of course, I won't argue is making money).
You know you're commenting on Slashdot when... you have to make several provisos to be sure you're understood.
Any Mac user who is delighted that a Microsoft icon looks "trustworthy" doesn't deserve their machine. I think we should send out some iNinjas to kill them and bring their machines back to me so I can make them happy and give them to deserving users who won't be complete retards.