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01/14/2002 Entry: "14-Jan-2002 -- Please Lick This iMac"

Please Lick This iMac -- "Maybe you hate Apple. Maybe you're generally disgruntled and it's all a bunch of soulless electronic consumer crap anyway and you wish everyone would shut up and log off and read a friggin' book for a change. And you'd be absolutely right. A little angry, but absolutely right."

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I think Ken Layne echoes my sentiments at:
http://kenlayne.com/2000/2002_01_13_logarc.html#8707959

I quote:

I like good design as much as the next guy/gal, but am troubled by the big deal made over this new Apple machine.

I've got a 15-inch flat display and a 1 GHz Pentium III-M and a 20 GB hard drive and 256 MB RAM and a combo DVD/CD-RW drive and stereo speakers and infrared network deals along with a built-in V90 modem and an Ethernet plug and a half-dozen things for USB stuff like digital cameras and video and mice and all that. Why isn't my notebook on the cover of Time? Because it doesn't look like a freakin' 1970s' desk lamp?

The only thing I can figure the new iMac has that I don't have is a DVD writer ... but that machine costs a lot more than the one on my desk, and I can take my machine on a plane. What do you do with that lamp thing?

Posted by MadMan @ 01/15/2002 11:18 AM EST

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