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This week has been Apple‘s time to shine at the Macworld Expo. I’m not a die-hard Mac fan, but they have some of the sexiest hardware in the industry, and they just keep getting better at it. (I think Steve Jobs could design and sell iSnowshoes to polynesians in Papua New Guinea.) Apple has finally announced (and started selling) it’s new Intel-based computers. If you’ve read my blog before, you’ve seen I installed a leaked copy of Mac OS X on two different x86-based platforms. While it’s close, Mac OS X is not the same unless it’s on Apple hardware. It’s kind of like how fucking your girlfriend with someone else’s dick might feel.
I like their new MacBook Pro. I just wish my local ATM would mysteriously spit out $2500 that I didn’t have to return! Check this thing out, a 1.83 GHz dual core Intel CPU, 667MHz frontside bus, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB memory on 16-lane PCI Express, 15.4-inch widescreen display, 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 100GB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive, and a DVD±RW/CD-RW SuperDrive. I’t even got an iSight camera above the display! It’s one pimp laptop!
Since it’s based on an Intel chip, I’ve read that people are curious about installing Windows on Apple’s new laptops. What?! Blasphemy! Why on earth would you buy the most leet consumer hardware available to install the shittiest operating system on it? Oh, games. C’mon. It’s a laptop. Buy an Xbox 360 to play games. Buy a dedicated Windows system to play games. Installing Windows on Mac hardware is like… well, it’s so wrong, I can’t think of a simile. Just say no!
I think the coolest new feature of Apple’s new laptops has to be the least technical — the power connector. The new power adapter is a magnetic connection instead of a physical one. So, when your little ankle-biters start running through the house… again… tripping over the power cord won’t send your new $2500 laptop crashing to the floor. The cord is held snuggly to the laptop magnetically, and simply breaks cleanly away without damage to either the cord or the system if there’s too much tension on the cord. This not only saves your Mac, but also saves you from beating the shit out of your kids.
And finally, from the “how fuckin’ cool is that” department. Apple announced their new Intel-based computers on Tuesday (January 10, 2006) at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. On that day, the stock price for Apple (AAPL) shares closed at $80.86. 8086? How did they do that? 8086 is the numerical name of Intel‘s 16-bit microprocessor from the 1970s that led to the x86 architecture that nearly every Windows PC runs on.
Wow… I need to cool it on the Wikipedia links, huh?… Go Seahawks!
