Top Five Things That You Should Know About Straight Out Of The Box Macs

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  1. The Packaging is so sexy. I mean, really really sexy. I actually stopped half way through opening my ibook packaging because the packaging was so incredibly sexy. It's wonderful. I fully intend to pack my Mac away and make everyone in the world open in up. Except I'm never going to pack it away ever because...
  2. The ibook itself is even sexier. I'm not even going to attempt to explain how damn fine it looks. Though if anyone asks, 'damn fine' is the answer I'm going to give.
  3. It has the best power cables ever. No really. Power cables. What big crazy hippy thought making power cables sexy was a good idea? What were you smoking big crazy hippy? And now I've dug myself into a hole because I can't actually admit that the power cables are brilliant idea without giving in and admitting that the big crazy hippy was onto something. So I give in! Mr. big crazy hippy, I salute you and your pot smoking brain!
  4. It connects to the internet. One of the things that scared me about getting a new mac was trying to get it online through our windows xp network shared internet connection do-hicky. Still, I plugged it into the connection, and lo and behold it just found the internet! None of this 'internet? what's that?' dialog boxes, instead 'uh, we've found this internet connection on this umm *cough* windows xp machine. We couldn't use it could we?' OF COURSE YOU CAN DEAREST MAC! TAKE ALL THE INTERNET YOU WANT!
  5. I can fiddle with stuff!. So it's downloading software updates, and of course, when you're downloading software updates you better not play with it in case in all explodes, yes? NO! Carry on away software updates, I'm going to browse the internet and play chess and fiddle with apple works and open as many programs as possible and then press shift F9. HAHAHAHA.

There are 11 expressions of opinion about what was written.
Mark wrote this at 11:15, Wed, 01/09/04, Link
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Mr.Moony

But if you know what your doing you can do it in windows. You just want it done for you lazy

Written by Mr.Moony at 12:20, Wed, 01/09/04

Matthew

The philosophy that things don't have to be hard is preferable to "we put a lot of effort into this so you're going to have to as well". If something can be done with no effort versus quite a bit of effort, I'd go for the former. I'm pretty good with computers of all sorts yet *still* can't properly network any of the computers in my house.

The odd thing is, Linux was just as good as Mark's iBook. If even *Linux* finds internet connections easier than Windows, something is wrong.

Mark, I may have to kill you and steal your computer. You're lucky though: I want a PowerBook :)

Written by Matthew at 16:41, Wed, 01/09/04

Peter Parkes

Shift-F9 is the best thing that ever happened to computers since, well, computers.

Written by Peter Parkes at 08:04, Thu, 02/09/04

Peter Parkes

Shift-F9 is the best thing to happen to computers. Ever.

Written by Peter Parkes at 08:04, Thu, 02/09/04

Mr.Moony

Gahhh your just not L33+. N00bs

Written by Mr.Moony at 11:04, Thu, 02/09/04

ted

owned

Written by ted at 18:10, Thu, 02/09/04

ted

owned

Written by ted at 18:11, Thu, 02/09/04

Sparticus

I always thought it was 1337. Shows how 1337 I am.

Written by Sparticus at 20:47, Thu, 02/09/04

matt

the best thing about macs is that they just work. I've had my powerbook for ages now and it jsut works. take it to uni and it just finds the new network. I've had wi-fi for a lot longer than this centrino rubbish, and microsoft seem to thing it was there idea. poor microsoft, longhorn is already out of date.
bring it on osX tiger

Written by matt at 00:01, Fri, 03/09/04

Wood

The O/S debate apart, this was one of the funniest posts I've read on a blog fo ages.

Written by Wood at 13:23, Fri, 03/09/04

Benjamin

I guess you're no officially a fully signed up anti-Microsoft geek. Congratulations! Together we shall freak out all Microsoft people so they get so scared of us & our technology and stay with Microsoft. No wait....

Written by Benjamin at 21:16, Mon, 06/09/04

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