Thanks for nothing, Apple!
May 16In my idle moments (of which there are MANY amongst the moments in my average day), I fantasize about transforming my household into a Mac household. I long to embrace the beautiful design of OSX in my home, to get a little Mac Mini I can run as a media center, to have music and video drifting wirelessly through my home. To finally BE somebody, you know?
Unless I hit the Lotto, it ain’t gonna happen. Apple’s new MacBooks are out, and they start at $1099.
$1099?!?!?! I can get a really good PC notebook for easily half that if I shop smart, use rebates, exploit online sales, etc. Hell, I can wait till this Thanksgiving, camp out at a big box retailer, and probably score a decent notebook for $400 tops, if last year’s sales are any indicators. And don’t even get me started on the fine, fine deals one can unearth if you just want a nice tower PC to plug your monitor and keyboard and shit into.
Come ON, Apple. Everybody loves the iPod. But no one’s going to love the Mac in any of its varying forms until you embrace the idea of affordability. Unless you don’t ever WANT to be the “computer of the masses,” and prefer appealing to a tiny sliver of the populace, the tech nerds and/or trend freaks who cannot live without the beauty of an Apple machine. In which case, keep doing what your doing. In fact, make your prices HIGHER, cause folks like that will probably pay it.
E3 round-up – it's all a blur
May 15I was, as Matt mentioned previously, on the floor at E3, and I was workin’ like a dog. So my key thoughts and reactions to E3 are slightly limited and from a wierd angle.
I’ll write a few of them down here;
A Comics Linky Twofer
May 15If you like heroes being drawn in cutesy and unexpected ways:
Awww!
Claudia Black Rules
May 12Wow. I’m watching Stargate: SG-1 (not Regular Viewing but Viewing When I’m Home on Friday Night Blogging About Comics, Because I’m Such a RAWK Star) and Farscape hasn’t been on for a while and so I’d kind of forgotten how exceptional Claudia Black is. She almost died in this episode and I actually screamed at the TV, “NOT CLAUDIA BLACK!!!”
Claudia Black is fucking awesome, you guys.
Shut Up, Erik Larsen
May 12Hey, you guys? Does anyone know what the hell Erik Larsen is trying to say? Maybe I’m having a hard time following along because it’s so different from Cosmo and all those, you know, girl magazines I read. I’m trying to be extra super-careful in my response because I don’t want to take Mr. Larsen out of context and misinterpret whatever it is he’s saying, like all of us intarweb “anonymous killjoys” love to do!
