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Tragedy And Inspiration (5/28/01)
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Geez, what is it with people shooting at iMacs? One would think there'd be some sort of legislation against this behavior, especially after the hubbub that ensued last year after Epinions almost aired graphic footage of a poor, defenseless iMac getting shot to pieces by some brainstem with a handgun-- not as a cautionary tale illustrating the dangers of drug use during pregnancy and ensuing fetal brain damage, but as a commercial. (Presumably the intended message was, "if your misfiring synapses make you as dangerously ignorant as this wantonly destructive pituitary case, we want you to join the Epinions community!") The commercial never aired, but evidently the violence continues unabated.
See, faithful viewer Leesha pointed out an Ananova article about one of the many, many iMacs currently up for sale on eBay-- but this particular iMac lacks one crucial component: the CRT. Why? Because the monitor was "shot out with a pellet gun by a disgruntled student who was obviously not too fond of the luminescent iMac colors." Yet another shooting inspired solely by the color of a computer's skin-- when will the madness end? (When you consider that a computer run without a display is often referred to as "headless," the situation seems still grislier.)
Miraculously, this brave little iMac survived the student's rampage, even though it lost its CRT in the fracas. While the sellers are listing the system as being "only good for parts," they note that "the processor, motherboard, and everything else [other than the missing display] are in good working condition," having "suffered NO damage" in the shooting. That implies to us that by simply plugging in a standard VGA monitor, the winning bidder will have a perfectly serviceable 333 MHz G3 system eager to get off the disabled list. Or transplant its guts into a Marathon iRack, and you've got a spiffy rack-mount Mac server system for cheap.
If you're interested in taking home this inspiring survivor of adversity, though, get ready to bid; at broadcast time, this two-year-old iMac with a shot-out screen was already fetching $257.50, with over two days left in the auction to go. Now that's a Mac that holds its value!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/28/01 episode: May 28, 2001: The "New New iBook" saga takes yet another twist, hinting at a third portable in Apple's line-up. Meanwhile, Verizon signs up to deploy a slew of Power Macs across its organization (thus inspiring supreme feeling of ambivalence in the AtAT crew), and yet another iMac is found shot because of the color of its skin-- but this little fella's a survivor...
Other scenes from that episode: 3076: Yes. No. Maybe. Sort Of. (5/28/01) Oooh, if the twists and turns in this plotline get any wackier, we're leasing it out to Six Flags as the hot new summer ride. To recap: on Thursday, we somewhat skeptically noted that a spokesperson for Apple's Taiwanese manufacturing contractor spilled the beans about yet another new iBook due in July, sporting a wider screen and a choice of enclosure colors... 3077: Good Meets Evil Meets AtAT (5/28/01) Regular viewers of our little show are already well aware that Verizon doesn't exactly hold a spot on AtAT's fabled Wall of Coolness. In fact, ever since those guys arbitrarily stole two-thirds of our bandwidth without so much as an apology (let alone any reasonable attempt to give it back), we started a Nixonesque "enemies list" just to have a good place to stick Verizon's name...
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