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No One Is Immune (11/29/97)
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Macintouch also pointed us to a Washington Post article about Al Gore's wiredness. All in all, it's nice to see that Number Two not only knows what a computer is, but actually likes to use them. It may, however, be a minor problem that Gore would appear to be addicted to email, sending and receiving over a hundred messages a day... Yes, it's better than a drug problem or an overwhelming penchant for cheap blondes in spike heels, but it's still a tad unhealthy. (An addiction to White House Marathon net games, however, we could forgive completely-- "Eat my SPNKR, Tipper!")

The real tragedy, though, is that Mr. Gore doesn't have the option to play Marathon Infinity anymore-- he's succumbed to the dreaded "forced migration" syndrome, which made him sadly replace his desktop Macs and his Duo with a "souped-up" Compaq and a couple of ThinkPad 560's. (166 MHz Pentium one of the "fastest laptops on the market today?" What are they smoking? Somebody send Al a Powerbook G3, quick...) Gore himself says he loves the Mac and believes it's a "superior format," but had to switch because of software availability problems.

Daunting! If Al Gore can't hold onto his Mac at his job, what chance do the rest of us have? Seriously, does anyone here have a highly-placed contact that can send Al a PowerBook G3 250 running Virtual PC? We bet it'd be a fine replacement for the P166 he's running, running DOS and Windows apps at about the same speed. And he'd get to stick with his favorite platform. Somebody get Steve on the horn!

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/29/97 episode:

November 29, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 223: Omega Race for Copland (11/29/97)   As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser..." Either German developers Omega have no idea when a joke's gone too far, or they really are working on this legendary COS. It's now a solid two and a half weeks overdue, though the Omega website claims it will ship "as quickly as is possible...

  • 225: PowerPC's Bowing Out? (11/29/97)   Now that the Alpha's out of the way, Intel doesn't have much competition in the processor arena. In fact, the PowerPC is the only serious contender in the desktop market (and many contend that it's not very serious)...

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