Kottke’s sob story
As someone who bought an iPod mini a few weeks before the nano hit, I feel Jason Kottke’s pain (as expressed in his Letter to Apple Support):
I purchased a new Powerbook three weeks ago. It was working fine until a few hours ago when you announced the new Intel-powered MacBook Pro at MacWorld and I started to cry. “Four to fives times faster,” I sobbed, “a built-in iSight, and a brighter, wider screen.”
My display, while not as bright or large as the new MacBook Pro display, illuminated my wet cheeks and red, swollen eyes as my tears rained down on the backlit keyboard. An acrid smell rose up from inside the smooth metal machine as my salty tears joined with the electronics, joyfully releasing the electrons from their assigned silicon pathways to freely arc into forbidden areas of the computer and elsewhere, including, somewhat painfully, my hands.
Add another thing to Steve Jobs’ list of talents — capable of reducing geeks to tears in under 10 seconds.
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on January 11, 2006 at 2:30 pm Jeremy wrote:
Ohh come on, Jobs has been doing that (reducing geeks to tears in under 10 seconds) since the mid 80’s. That guy has prolly contributed or was the catalyst for over a hundred CS engineer mental breakdowns.
on January 12, 2006 at 3:10 am Stam wrote:
Not to detract from the original author or this blog, but surely *every one* knew that new products and possibly a new laptop would be announced this week?
If you decided to get a new laptop 3 weeks before this then take it like a man and STFU - you obviously needed the hardware and it’s likely to be more than adequate for at least 1-2 more years.
I won’t go into technical issues such as software availability, how Apple have “fudged” their benchmarks by using multiprocessor tests on single core machines etc. Use your brain and don’t fall for the hype, particularly when it’s the first version of a product.