kookbreaker
3rd February 2005, 09:54 AM
Yup. They can help an earthquake kill ya!
I tend to take computer commentators with a grain of salt. They are usually blowhards, but occassioanlly they have an interesting obseration or two.
Now, I've seen plenty of columnists bash apple. Heck, it was once a sport. Sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong. But even when they are wrong they usually have some basis in reality.
Meet Rob Enderle (http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback46.html). Rob has already ingratiated himself to the LINUX world by calling everyone who uses that system idiots. Rob is apparently considered such a BillGatesButtkisser in the Linux community that he's considered an unfunny joke.
Well, seems that Rob decided to go after Apple. Fair enough, but I was under the impression that you needed to have a basis in reality to make a point.
For example:
I’m not a fan of the current iMac, the PC in a monitor has been done before and the new offering has relatively poor ergonomics (when compared to the old iMac), is less distinctive, and is far less stable. I live in California, earthquake country, and the old iMac was one of the most stable products in its class, the new one places the weight too high and relies on a base that is too narrow making it likely that it would fall. Falling glass can be a huge hazard in a home late at night when you are trying to get the kids and family to safety during an earthquake.
Ah. Yes. real winner there Rob.
Never mind that you've obviously never touched an iMac. If you did you'd know that they are pretty stable. More importantly, you'd know that there is no glass used on the LCD monitor.
Reeeeeaal impressive work there, buster. "iMacs will kill your family!" says more about you than Apple.
I tend to take computer commentators with a grain of salt. They are usually blowhards, but occassioanlly they have an interesting obseration or two.
Now, I've seen plenty of columnists bash apple. Heck, it was once a sport. Sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong. But even when they are wrong they usually have some basis in reality.
Meet Rob Enderle (http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback46.html). Rob has already ingratiated himself to the LINUX world by calling everyone who uses that system idiots. Rob is apparently considered such a BillGatesButtkisser in the Linux community that he's considered an unfunny joke.
Well, seems that Rob decided to go after Apple. Fair enough, but I was under the impression that you needed to have a basis in reality to make a point.
For example:
I’m not a fan of the current iMac, the PC in a monitor has been done before and the new offering has relatively poor ergonomics (when compared to the old iMac), is less distinctive, and is far less stable. I live in California, earthquake country, and the old iMac was one of the most stable products in its class, the new one places the weight too high and relies on a base that is too narrow making it likely that it would fall. Falling glass can be a huge hazard in a home late at night when you are trying to get the kids and family to safety during an earthquake.
Ah. Yes. real winner there Rob.
Never mind that you've obviously never touched an iMac. If you did you'd know that they are pretty stable. More importantly, you'd know that there is no glass used on the LCD monitor.
Reeeeeaal impressive work there, buster. "iMacs will kill your family!" says more about you than Apple.