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Mac World? They’re in a line for Mac World? Oh for FSM’s sake, I’ve got to get me a mac real soon now!
“I wonder if John was invited?” Har!
Worshipers on their way to the inner sanctum.
pj
There sure are a lot of people in dire need of getting a life!
Maybe that is testament to the type of people who use that particular brand.
Cheers
You can’t tell them apart from the idiots that stand on line for hours to get a copy of the latest game or tickets for the hottest concert. Losers with a capital “L”.
Those people don’t look like the kid in the Apple ads. Lots of bald heads and body fat…Isn’t he supposed to be representative of their users? Huh.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with those people, just seems to me like something doesn’t fit.)
Is that freak with the duster and the cowboy hat on Apples payroll or something? I swear I have seen him in other pictures of Apple line sitting before.
Also, I was at Disney recently, and they have a system where you can make appointments for rides so you don’t have to stand in a malformed line anymore. Apple should do something like that, rather than these very last century lines.
The que was managed better for Led Zepplin tickets… and presumably they wanted the spectacle…
To #5
Hey at least I have all my hair. =8)
I never understood all the rumor mills. Just let the product come out when it does.
#4,
The Halo 3 lines were a party, it was like the parking lot for the Grateful Dead. I don’t see anyone sharing around a joint in this line. I look more like the people in this line than the Halo 3 lines BTW.
Also, there were precisely zero murses (man-purse for the mashup impared) in the Halo 3 lines.
Standing in line and sharing around a joint.. that was my last DMV experience
Breaking MacWorld News: Jobs To Wear Black Shirt/Jeans
http://tinyurl.com/22l6oc
[Please use TinyUrl.com for overly long URLs. – ed.]
PC, Macs, they’re all just FREDs. Get a life for My sake……
I know a guy who waited on standby for eight hours for a $395 Days Inn room because he got to the convention very late.
Now that’s not only patience but true dedication!
#5: in the Apple Ads, they’d all have their 3 Series BMW and trendy bicycles parked just around the corner. In reality, it’s more probable that they rode in on an old shabby Ford Contour or so…
Life isn’t always what advetizing wants us to believe it is.
pj
bah, fanbois
#8 Last year someone brought lots of donuts and was giving them out to everyone there. Good enough for ya?
I’m actually sorry I’m not there this year. Ah well, there’s always next year.
“I’m actually sorry I’m not there this year. Ah well, there’s always next year.”
Not if he announces iSkynet.
“There’s something in the air”
… and we all wonder who it came from.
Geez, calm down guys, they’re just professionals from the creative community… ad agencies, graphic design studios, printing companies, freelance artists…
Also Awake and GregA, you’re just sorry that you don’t own Macs or Apple stock, or you should be. Hows VM Ware treating you? Heh heh.
October 8, 2007 both of you suggested that VMWare was going to outperform Apple and you gave all kinds of dumb reasoning why Apple was going down the tube. I challenged you that Apple was the better investment and on the 15th of January 2008 we would do a comparison.
VMWare is down 11.5%, Apple is up 10% 21.5% spread.
Apple is like a religion. Apple fanbois are like Trekkies. Steve Jobs is like L. Ron Hubbard.
#22. “Steve Jobs is like L. Ron Hubbard”, without the concubines.
This in from another website
Apple introducing world’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. MacBook Air is 0.76 inches down to 0.16 inches. So thin it fits in a manila envelope. It is thinner than one of those little notepads, it is thinner than a legal pad. Full size keyboard and screen, screen is 13.3″. Instant on, lcd lit display. Full size keyboard, backlit keyboard, built in isight. Track pad with multi-touch gesture support. Demonstrating double tap, two finger pan, rotate, three finger pan, pinch zoom (just like on iPhone – pinch in shrink, pinch out zoom out). Macpro air has an 80 gig hd standard, and a 64 gbyte solid state disk as an option… very pricey but fast, and quiet. The mother board is so darned tiny, smaller than a pencil, powered by core 2 duo at 1.6 Ghz standard, and option for 1.8 ghz. It’s totally wireless. No ethernet. portable dvi, headphone and magsafe, and usb. No optical drive. Powered accessory for $99.00 plug in externally. Most users won’t miss the optical drive apple has innovated a new feature for software installation. Remote disk… shows all macs and pcs that have a wireless installer than lets you “borrow” a machine’s optical drive and you can then install software. 5 hours of battery life. 2 gigs standard ram. It is cheap. $1799 shipping in 2 weeks. CD/DVD drive $99 extra.
I wonder if any of the Mac Fan-Boys realizes that Steve is WAY OVER 30 !!! Here, Fan-Boys, have some more Kool-Aide !!!
Yes, it’s pathetic, isn’t it. These guys are such losers. Oh by the way, the stock is being projected to go to over $200 per share and their market share is skyrocketing. Is it really such a crime to be enthusiastic about a company that is dong things so well and thrilling their customers? Come on, take a look at what they are doing in this market… it’s absolutely unprecedented. This company is amazing, and that’s why they have so many “fanboys.”
“2008 There’s something in the air” Is this years Mac world about global warming or just one big fart joke?
24,
You forgot;
No user replaceable battery.
JimR,
I shorted at 200, I’v made 30k so far!!! about 10k of that JUST TODAY!
28,
You simply can’t have a slim device with a removable battery of respectable caliber. You have to bond the thing directly to the board.
Paultre’s law of battery implementation in a design:
Small removable battery = Thin device with expanded convenience in power management but short untethered operating life
Large removable battery = Thick device with expanded convenience in power management and long untethered operating life
Large fixed battery = Thinner device with limited power management and long untethered operating life
Small fixed battery = Very thin device with limited power management and very short untethered operating life
I detect a lot of Vistards here that regret buying a piece of shit OS. Suckers!!
#29, GregA… suuure you did. 🙂