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Plus, It's Fully Stackable (5/16/03)
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It's Fluff Friday here at AtAT! Let's face it: the last thing you want to do is leave the work week with weighty thoughts and complex emotions crashing around in your head. So what better way to kick off the weekend than with a quick little angst-free nugget of pure consumer opportunity? And you know what that means: eBay.
Yes, people, we here at the AtAT compound do indeed worship at the altar of the Online Auction. Heck, the very words you're reading right this second ("Wow, how'd they know that? It's like they can see us or something!") came speeding to you across the ether from a Mac we got off of eBay a few years back. From our perspective, there's no better place to go if you want to spend a whole lot of money on a bunch of crap you probably don't need-- and hey, isn't that the duty of every good consumer?
Well, folks, if you've got a few simoleons burning a hole in your pocket, faithful viewer Mark found just the thing for you: check out this Happy Mac made out of Legos. Some brilliant, brilliant person took the motherboard out of an ailing old PowerBook 5300 and transplanted it into a Happy Mac enclosure made from everyone's favorite plastic construction blocks. And it works! Plug in a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse, fire it up, and you're happily computing away on a unique piece of Macdom. Heck, it's even been upgraded with Ethernet!
If you're interested, bid early and often; at broadcast time, we were looking at a high bid of about £88. (It's in the UK.) Granted, the specs are a little weak (100 MHz 603e, 32 MB of RAM, 750 MB hard disk), but you wouldn't be buying this thing for performance: this is art. Plus, since the battery's been removed from the equation, you wouldn't have to worry about this reworked 5300 bursting into flame; it's stylish and safe. What more could you possibly want?
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Other scenes from that episode: 3955: "Aloha" Means "Buy This" (5/16/03) Mele Kalikimaka, everybody! (That means "fish food"!) Say, faithful viewer Darcy asked us to remind you all that tomorrow is a Momentous Occasion(TM): May 17th will forever go down in history as the Day That The Apple Store Ala Moana Opened... 3956: Why, Who Could Resist? (5/16/03) And in the "Who Were The Ad Wizards Who Came Up With THIS One?" department, faithful viewer Michael McKinney informs us that Microsoft has just unleashed MSN for Mac OS X. Yes, folks, if you prefer the Mac to Windows but you've still got a hankerin' to tether yourself to Redmond's warmed-over clone of AOL, life just doesn't get any better than this...
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