As the Apple Turns: Scene 3545: Hey, Look-- A Pig With Wings (2/4/02)

Hey, Look-- A Pig With Wings (2/4/02)

It's the day after the Big Game, and seeing as we just happen to live in a hidden underground concrete bunker right outside the Boston city limits, we're witnessing the aftermath of last night's outcome first hand... and folks, it ain't pretty. We'd estimate that fully half of the local population is still recovering from major cardiopulmonary trauma and/or advanced states of shock-- in fact, if those hapless sports fans hadn't cushioned their systems via the liberal ingestion of alcoholic beverages, we'd probably be watching the authorities cart loads of corpses through the streets right about now. (Strangely enough, despite the massive psychic shock they've all suffered, we'd have to classify most of the area's denizens as "knackered but happy.")

As for us, we're fine-- thanks for asking. Indeed, we're largely symptom-free after last night's stunning upset: no contusions from our jaws hitting the floor, no fainting spells or hyperventilation, not even a slightly increased pulse rate and a mild case of dry mouth. Why? Well, we'd probably be a lot more floored by the fact that the Patriots actually won last night's Super Bowl if we hadn't already witnessed ZDNet's David Coursey saying nice things about the Mac. Heck, between that and Amazon posting a profit, we doubt anything will surprise us ever again (but if the Cubs ever win the World Series during our lifetimes, send an ambulance just in case).

If you still haven't come to terms with Mr. Coursey's newfound Mac tolerance, you should probably stay well away from his latest article, because as faithful viewer Barton points out, it's a veritable orgy of warm Mac fuzzies that may be hazardous to your health. Even the article's title serves as a warning label for the wan and easily shockable: "Why I just love the new iMac (and why you might, too)." That's a far cry from his original iMac reaction; about the most negative thing he can say about it now is that there's no good way to sync a PDA with Microsoft Office under Mac OS X-- which is, of course, totally true, and hardly a scathing indictment. For crying out Pete's sake, the man's even got before and after photos of his desk, just to show how much nicer the iMac is than his clunky old Wintel. And when a self-confessed "loyal Windows user" starts noticing things like how Microsoft's applications use ugly fonts, well, something's definitely amiss.

We basically only see two possibilities, here: either Steve Jobs zapped Coursey with a far larger dose of Reality Distortion Field energy than we originally suspected, or Mr. "Windows Yay!" really is well on the road to utter conversion. Either way, he's responsible for the Mac getting some positive press among the heathens, which is always nice to see; here's hoping that these glowing reports continue in weeks two, three, and four of his "month with a Mac" project. Personally, we anticipate many more kind words. After all, he hasn't even played with iMovie yet...

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The above scene was taken from the 2/4/02 episode:

February 4, 2002: In a stunning upset, the Patriots won the Super Bowl-- but is that even close to being as shocking as David Coursey's latest love-fest with the Mac? Meanwhile, people are already whispering about a bigger screen for the new iMac, and Dell does its part to ferret out international terrorism-- by politely asking its overseas customers if they plan to kill anyone...

Other scenes from that episode:

3546: Pixels... Need More Pixels... (2/4/02) As much as we like the functional design of the new iMac, there's no doubt that there's still some room for improvement. Possible enhancements range from the blindingly obvious (e.g. an optical drive mounted high enough that it can't smack into the keyboard when its tray is ejected) to the arguably superfluous but nice (e.g. a third joint on the display arm that would allow the screen to swivel left to right independently of the arm) to the outright goofy (e.g. an enclosure made entirely out of Gruyère cheese)...
3547: Nailing The DUMB Terrorists (2/4/02) You know, we've decided that we've been way too hard on Dell lately. For a second, we're going to forget that whole thing about Dell basically using Apple as a free R&D department and then releasing cheap knockoffs with all the style and subtlety of a Yugo crashing into a Wal-Mart...

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