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Oncle Boris is offline Oncle Boris
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My friend has just got a PowerBook Tired of ads?

And I'm jealous of the lucky bastard.

As you may know, the PowerBook line has recently been updated, so he got this amazing deal on a new, previous-generation 1.33 GHz PowerBook. $1650 CDN for a 15-inch PowerBook, SuperDrive and 2GB of RAM.

For our Euro friends, that's ****ing 1000 euros.
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Meh. What's the point of 2 gigs if you can't play any games?
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Meh. What's the point of 2 gigs?
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

The laptops at work are T42ps...2GHz Pentium Ms w/ 2MB L2 cache, 2GB of RAM, and a 128MB FireGL video card.

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Meh. What's the point of 2 gigs if you can't play any games?


You can multitask 423 Firefox tabs while editing 14 2048x1536 Photoshop pictures and watching 34 pr0n videos.
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Or run one instance of Websphere Application Developer (WSAD).

That's seriously why they have 2GB at work. That and Lotus Notes.

The minimum recommended for WSAD is 1GB. It's absurd.
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Stop being pedantic, you're sounding like a philosopher.

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quote:
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You can multitask 423 Firefox tabs while editing 14 2048x1536 Photoshop pictures and watching 34 pr0n videos.


* alva places order for more memory.

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The laptops at work are T42ps...2GHz Pentium Ms w/ 2MB L2 cache, 2GB of RAM, and a 128MB FireGL video card.


Yeah, but how much is that .

If its ~$1500 or less, I'm SOOOO there!

But I doubt it.
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$6,000 CDN, with only 1GB of RAM.

$3,500 US, on sale from $4,000.
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Yes, but their laptops have 2 GHz Pentium-Ms.

As you know, any student browsing the web and watching pr0n needs that over a G4.
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Give it to me.
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$6,000 CDN, with only 1GB of RAM.


CDN6000? You can get a kickarse server with that money.
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CDN6000? You can get a kickarse server with that money.

Yeah, but I think the argument could be made that they serve different purposes.

You could also get a lickarse wh*re or 10 for that amount of money.
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That's a pretty good deal your friend got.

Where's the green with envy smilie?
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Yep... Hell, even I'd get a Powerbook for that deal . Well... maybe not.

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You have to be careful. Buying Apple is like checking in to the Hotel California.

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That explains the dipping marketshare.

(FWIW I moved away from California after living there 4 years, so... )
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Are you being deliberately dense?
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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What do Eagles songs have to do with your childhood?
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Do you know what Hotel California is about?
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Do you know what Hotel California is about?


No. I've heard various explanations though. What's yours?

I was wondering if your hatred of 70s rock meant that HC had passed you by. Apparently not.
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I love a lot of 70's rock.

Hotel California is supposed to be about nothing...
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But you can never leave


but to me it's about how once you move to California, you don't ever wanna leave. You try, but you always come back...

I though you were making a comparison of California to Apple in that respect.
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Here you go:

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/hotel.htm

The accepted interpretation is that it is about the hedonism and greed about the music industry and its excesses (Snopes isn't the first place I've heard it).

But I'm sure Aggie was talking about the 'you can never leave' line .
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but to me it's about how once you move to California, you don't ever wanna leave. You try, but you always come back...


Glenn Frey says that it's about nothing. But as with rock music there are a number of conspiracies.

It's really about drugs, or adultery or satanism, or mental illness, etc.

I happen to think it's about nothing.

quote:
I though you were making a comparison of California to Apple in that respect.


I was just alluding to that particular line of the song, as people often do. So you're not wrong, and not right, but in that strange world of half-being where the two meet.

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See... Imran's link contained most of the stories I've heard about it.

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Hey Aggie, I'm writing something, it's a 6-8 page essay due tomorrow morning on why and how the Laches is platonician.
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What it's really about is being turned up on my girlfriend's stereo when I was 16 so that the people in the next room couldn't hear us having sex.

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Hey Aggie, I'm writing something, it's a 6-8 page essay due tomorrow morning on why the Laches is platonician.


What? What's "platonician"?
 
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