Heartland

Oh yes my brethren and sistren, oor very own ObviouslyTallBloke was visited by Sin Niklaus bearing a MacBook.

His life will never be the same again, it will be so much better!

isn't this just gorgeous...

Woah. In bed with Heartland..

If it's so good where, pray, do the floppys gan in?

culprit wrote:If it's so good where, pray, do the floppys gan in?

Like the man would say, if you still have a floppy after looking at that, you may need some of the fine pills that our resident spambots promote from time to time.

James Blast wrote:isn't this just gorgeous...

It's a laptop. Looks like a million other laptops. Am I missing something?

DerekR wrote:

James Blast wrote:isn't this just gorgeous...

It's a laptop. Looks like a million other laptops. Am I missing something?

It's designed by Jonathan Ive

in all fairness, you have to see one up close.

on an aesthetic note they are very beautiful. they're a proper piece of design & engineering.

and on a technical note, they have a lot of features designed in that pc laptops can only dream of. simple stuff that until you see it in a macbook as standard you dont realise that its missing from most pc laptops. for eg: a web cam (not bad quality either!) and mic

jay wrote:It's designed by Jonathan Ive

The fact that I had to google him means that the fact it's designed by him is lost on me

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/jonathan-ive

DerekR wrote:

jay wrote:It's designed by Jonathan Ive

The fact that I had to google him means that the fact it's designed by him is lost on me

I suppose he moves in cliquey circles. He is a design legend though

James Blast wrote:Oh yes my brethren and sistren, oor very own ObviouslyTallBloke was visited by Sin Niklaus bearing a REAL computer!!!.

His life will never be the same again, it will be so much better!

isn't this just gorgeous...

Not now, James, we're busy...

IZ.

Oh yes, the new McToy is nice and I'm sure Z will enjoy it big time...

...even my father bought a Mac a few weeks ago and he's very happy with it. The old pc made him mad, because it was a hellish machine! Now he's a whizzkid with his new McToy...

... and someday even I 'll buy one of those myself, BUT it just cannot touch the übercool C64 or the Amiga. Dreams dreams dreams...

It's very lovely indeed, nearly all used to it now, just some more apps is what I need

Only thing is, mine appears to be the goth version, not the metalish one:

I've got an Acorn.

boudicca wrote:I've got an Acorn.

That would be an iAcorn then?

so cheap

IZ.

And bugs are not as much of a problem as squirrel.

jay wrote:He is a design legend though

But it looks like every other laptop in the world... is that what he was aiming for? Does he have some sort of Andy Warhol vibe going on that I'm not getting?

Even I think the MacBook is a very good laptop and feelings on Macs are well documented.

hallucienate wrote:Even I think the MacBook is a very good laptop and feelings on Macs are well documented.

The guy at the Mac Store said benchmark tests show Macs run Windows quicker than any other laptop That's pretty insane, I'd say

Oh, you lot have finally caught up, where's markfiend when I need him?

James Blast wrote:Oh, you lot have finally caught up, where's markfiend when I need him?

Re-installing his WinXP for the umpteenth time, most likely...

IZ.

z'acklee

he does dabble in the Dark Side now and again

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:

James Blast wrote:Oh, you lot have finally caught up, where's markfiend when I need him?

Re-installing his WinXP for the umpteenth time, most likely...

IZ.

It's more a case of Mac catching up with PCs. The main reason I find it appealing is the Intel hardware and the way it's put together. That and Parallels software.

I generally don't re-install, except in the case new or failed hard drives.

*cough*

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index ... are_how_to