heh Peter Boyle, yes.

Good point ... I'll start the campaign later this evening :D

Another reason to think the leak might have been staged is to take all the steam out from under these announcements from Intel, which were probably timed to try to take the steam out of the WWDC announcements. :p

When is Wintel going to learn. No matter how much whirlwind spin they create today, Jobs et. al. have a tornado in their pockets (not just happy to see me -tee hee) which will warp reality to a fever pitch.

The thing to watch is the ars technica boards and slashdot as x86ers go 'head-to-head' with 970ers. If the specs are *That Good* then their manhood will feel threatened and that, no matter which way you feel, will be fun to watch.

-caveat, I'm quite secure with my G4. ;)

ooooOOoooOOOooo Apple Store online is down right now :)

wwdc coverage...
 

...blow by blow...

http://live.macobserver.com/article/..._keynote.shtml

You guys are acting like children!

[INTERNAL DIALOG]
me: my machine is only 550Mhz
me: the new G5 has dual 2Ghz!
me: my machine IS pretty slow...
me: imagine what I could do with a new G5...
me: not to mention that my machine has a loud fan...
me: I have been behind the times for a while...
me: 8GB of RAM!
me: that'll hold an entire swap file for any image I could open in Photoshop!
me: (it could probably hold three files worth of swap!)
me: 500GB!
me: you'll never need that!
me: So!
[/INTERNAL DIALOG]

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um... I'll be taking donations from my web site. If anyone has a few extra bucks... I'll surely put it to good use (I'll even let you touch it) :D

I wouldn't if I were you ... I hear that drool is bad for electrical equipment ;)

:D :D Oh it'll be encased in one of those science lab style glass cubes!... With two portals connected to thick black rubber gloves! :cool:

Marvellous, I'm booking my plane ticket as we speak. Where, exactly, are you parked? :D

I'll be with yellow. We're going to use the RV as a stakeout vehicle (it's 1974 exterior wil surely blend in!) ;)


[edit] oops, I accidentally clicked 'new thread' instead of 'post reply'... [/edit]

[edit] ... um, no I didn't. It was actually just a new page to this thread... :rolleyes: [/edit]

*sigh* How boring looking.

yep, they look pretty cool - anyone want to buy a second hand grandmother? ;)

[edit - boring? so they look like a cross between an aircon unit and, err, ... a grey box. I can live with that /edit]

When the initial picture loaded, I though that it was missing a gif or something. The perforations in the case look like a 50% gray (you know - the old style that was made up of black and white pixels) - I kept waiting for the rest of the image to load...

I think it looks kinda wierd, but so did the Dodge Rams when they first started with the curvey hoods in '96.

Oh, well. djn1 - I guess the glass science-lab-style cube will have to be opaque ;)

i think it looks awesome. understated grace. and the cooling requirements dictated the design. i wonder how hot these girls are. who's gonna bench the 2x2GHz for us in august?

check out the image gallery...

http://www.apple.com/powermac/

Square, grey, aluminum. It looks like the bastard child of a speaker & fridge.. it's... boring looking. Someone squished the xServe and made it my desktop tower. Doesn't mean I won't buy one, I just didn't expect what I shall heretofore dub 'The Rhombus'.

Less is NOT always more.

Is it just me or is there some strange sexual tension evident in Merv's choice of words? ;)

Well my dual 500s at Work are getting on the slow side. I figure by the time the dual 3k Rhombus appears, I'll be ripe and ready for a new machine. *aquiver*

strange. erm, normal tension here.

now, show us your girls!