For God's sake it gets even worse. This story then links you to a review of the imac, and Hey Lucy, you aint gonna like this.
Does anyone on the thread subscribe to the magazine? If so, is the online content a direct crib from the print edition? If so, I am not a happy camper. Say what you want, Forbes is still an influential magazine.
I encourage all Forbes subscribers to vote with their dollars and cancel their subscriptions today. What the f**k do these jokers no anyone, they probably all voted for their idiot right-wing boss for president anyone. At least the old man had good taste in women, even if he preferred the fellas.
Sorry I'm rambling and pissed off and tired, here is the story on the imac. Read it and weep
DL
Apple Computer's new iMac desktop looks slick. Due to
be released sometime in August, Apple's newest
consumer computer comes wrapped in curvy,
translucent blue plastic and features the "all-in-one" look
of the original Macintosh. Overall, the machine sports a
retro-futuristic look sure to appeal to Generation X fans of the
Jetsons--the same crowd that brought back bell-bottoms and
fell in love with Volkswagen's recent update of the Beetle.
Considering the lack of Apple
software on the market, looking
at it is all you are likely to do with
your iMac.
Under the hood the iMac (the i stands for--what else?--Internet)
is nothing to scoff at, either. With a rambunctious 233MHz
PowerPC microprocessor and a standard 32 megabytes of
memory, the iMac compares well technically with any of the
current crop of sub-$1,000 PCs on the market. The $1,300
price tag seems a bit high, but not once you consider that the
iMac comes with a built-in monitor.
Altogether, not a bad piece of machinery. But buy one? Not
unless you are an Apple diehard or a complete fool. Sure the
iMac might look nice sitting next to your Barcalounger, but
considering the lack of Apple software on the market (see
"Apple offers sizzle"), looking at it is all you are likely to do
with your iMac. Add to that the annoying fact that the iMac
doesn't have a floppy drive (Jobs apparently thinks we all
already get software from CD-ROMs or the web. He'll be right
in five years), and you have a product that will sell like
hotcakes to Apple fanatics for about two months and then will
gather dust in the footnotes of computer history. |
