<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>In fact they are even more entertaining than the PO'd bunch cause they don't have a clue.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Says the proud iBook owner.<P>Talk about clueless.<P>The iBook only fulfils any need if you're a ditzy teenage girl.
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iBook. "Thanks Girls"
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Peter B -<P>Thank you for once again proving my point. Chalk up one more for the fashion police. <P>Like you know that's so true. My best's friend's girlfriend's brother was like really buff. And he like said how my Dell didn't match my shoes. What a spaz! Well like I had to do something ya know cuz I was really liking these bitchin orange tights.<P>So I gave the Dell to my liitle geeky brother and he like creamed cuz it was a Pantiem Deuce or something. So am like sitting on the bed reading that article on oral sex and Billy buff call and says he didn't know I was so smart and how he really liked my Tangerine iBook. <P>Gee Peter thanks for warning me. I was just about to use the iBook for another GoLive session when I had the uncontrollable urge to giggle and go shopping. I had no idea that the processor had been so carefully optimized for Geee Trey set. Did you know the CD-ROM only plays Britney Spears and Spice Girls? If you take out that pesky keyboard there is just enough room for makeup? <P>OH NO! The AIRPORT card is teleporting my testicles to Cupertino for processing. Help me Peter Help me . I was such a fool. Oh God nooooooooo not that..... stopppp AHHHHHHHHHHH.<P>Ewwwwwww GEEKS!
there is something decidedly pathetic about someone rebelling for rebellions sake<P>kraquen
I second that motion, if any mac stuff would run BeOS I'd be back onboard but I'm not buying any of Jobs' goodies until he opens it back up to other OSes!
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Kinda like all those goth kids in college who were "expressing their individuality", yet they all looked/acted/thought the same.
Yes nearly as pathetic as conforming to the group for the sake of nothing at all.
... which is nowhere near as pathetic as thinking that clothes, hair-do's, piercings, tattoo's or choices of music make someone "different" in a meaningful way.
Imarshall<P>Precisely. People already are different. The articles they choose to surround themselves with are an expression of that difference. Many selections are a form of acting out. <P>Conversely, conformity carries with it a desperate need to supress natural differences in favor of social acceptance.<P>Both conformity and rebellion are opposite sides of the same coin. For society to progress a certain level of conformity is required. For this reason,laws and other standards are developed to ensure the smooth functioning of society.<P>The iBook for example conforms in many ways to the larger laptop market. It sports a (smallish)IDE hard-drive instead of the faster SCSI. It reads PC files. It has a built-in 10/100 ethernet port, USB, a 12" screen, and 56K modem. With VPC it can be made to recognize (albeit more slowly)Windows (-games), Intel-based Linux distros, and BeOS.<P>It is also faintly rebellious. It has no PCMIA slot. It has no floppy drive built-in. It HAS a builtin antenna for a still emerging yet recognized 802.11 wireless LAN. It's native OS is MacOS(which is sufficient to cause howls of delight or derision). <P>But what does everyone focus on? Surface features like color and shape. The somewhat loud two-tone color scheme and clamshell design are obviously meant to provide some brand identity. PC makers such as SONY (who provide a superior selection of form factors)have also successfully differentiated what would otherwise be pretty standard laptop fare.<P>
Ok, i have not had any direct experience with the ibook until this week when my mom brought one home out of a batch of 30 she just got at her work(a high school), to test out. Now i thought that it was a good computer before and it thought the colors wouldnt sell well butttt i am looking at it now and it looks soo cool, not girly, and i have a tangerine one here. It is classy looking, not sloppy looking. I guess it is a matter of opinion for everyone but it is not that underpowered for a consumer machine. The screen may only be 12.1 inchs but it looks sharp and the 3.2 gigabytes of hard disk isnt the worst, i mean for storing a few games and your papers and software. The processor isnt the fastest G3 but the target market doesnt need alot of speed. It will be speedbumped soon anyway, you have to remember it was announced almost 4 months ago. The airport feature is cool and the built in antenna is awesome and the case is neat. How many pc laptops have a built in wireless networking dedicated slot and an antenna? It also has 100 base-T ethernet, a feature some desktops dont even have. The bottom line is it isnt that bad.
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