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May '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
When I got my imac I had to get a whole new wardrobe.
Oct '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
So, I listened to this on my Dell XPS 17 (XPS L702X) running Ubuntu Linux:
Linux hayek 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:02:55 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
for which I paid a fraction of the price of a Mac and have installed all the software I need to maintain a Web site with more than 1.5 million accesses a day for free.
Yep, it's thick and not cool. I can live with that.
Jun '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Dells and HPs are for people that have other uses for money besides buying overpriced notebook computers. They're also for people that can tinker around and regroup, or adapt for the moment, if some new piece of software crashes. When Macs crash, tears flow.
Aug '11
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
I use a Dell Lattitude E6510 with a wireless mouse. It is considerably more powerful and was considerably more expensive than my wife's (a musician) MacBook Pro. I hate that Mac; lousy keyboard with no feel, no delete key, that crummy pad. Yecchh! I come from the business world. I need a computer with some substance.
Call me old fashioned, but so what. Fashion is not something I waste money on or time thinking about.
Edited on Sep 16, 2011 at 4:57pmJul '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Oh, yeah?
I like to go into those pompous coffee shops slinging the beads to and fro on My abacus.
Mar '11
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
The Mac/PC Holy War never really ends. There are just cease-fires from time to time.
Me? I'm a pragmatist. Get 'er done!
I bought a Mac IIci back in the Jurassic Era. The 16 Megs (yes, that would be megabytes, children) of RAM I bought to expand it cost me as much as the piddly little HP I have now. I also bought a x386 about the same time. The Mac was for work-related documentation (our tech writers had taken over the asylum). The PC was for getting any real development done. One could do development on either, but Apple regularly released OS updates that would blow you out of the water if you hadn't followed every single stricture included in design documentation that was about 2 feet thick on the bookshelf.
Coolness? Please. I'm a nerd. My coolness peak came when I could saunter up to some lovely and whisper in her ear "wanna come back to my place and see my Internet connection?"
I'd let her use the Mac of course. The main advantage it had was it was well-nigh idiot-proof.
Dec '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Worn-out jeans are SO expensive.
Jun '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Jimmy Carter: Oh, yeah?
I like to go into those pompous coffee shops slinging the beads to and fro on My abacus. · Sep 16 at 5:06pm
You wouldn't even need the abacus if you were sharp, like me, and could count using only you fingers.
Oct '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Speaking of computing substance, one has spent more than enough time with the huge fire breathing mainframes. Throw in a old Cray or two and those are the machines that get the job done.
Call me old fashioned, have a Dell XPS tower desktop with big fast Terabyte drives plus bells and whistles. Gets the job done and stays in one place.
Toting a machine around is a personal display of self importance and ego.
Says, Gee look at me, I am connected, therefore cool. Not much of a life there.
Oct '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
wilber forge: Speaking of computing substance, one has spent more than enough time with the huge fire breathing mainframes. Throw in a old Cray or two and those are the machines that get the job done.
Call me old fashioned, have a Dell XPS tower desktop with big fast Terabyte drives plus bells and whistles. Gets the job done and stays in one place.
Toting a machine around is a personal display of self importance and ego.
Says, Gee look at me, I am connected, therefore cool. Not much of a life there. ·
Just so many brass buttons..
Sep 16 at 5:56pm
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Hey! I use a clunky "ugly black Lenovo." Here's what I know that Rob doesn't:
I can spill water on it without it breaking, and I can drop it without it breaking. Apparently. That's what the commercial said
Jul '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Cas Balicki
You wouldn't even need the abacus if you were sharp, like me, and could count using only you fingers. · Sep 16 at 5:52pm
Decabyte capacity is so yesterday.
Jun '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Jimmy Carter
Cas Balicki
You wouldn't even need the abacus if you were sharp, like me, and could count using only you fingers. · Sep 16 at 5:52pm
Decabyte capacity is so yesterday. · Sep 16 at 7:33pm
Not if you're using base two!
Jun '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Ethan Safron: Hey! I use a clunky "ugly black Lenovo." Here's what I know that Rob doesn't:
I can spill water on it without it breaking, and I can drop it without it breaking. Apparently. That's what the commercial said · Sep 16 at 6:48pm
Perfect for the surfboard, then.
Oct '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
When is the last time anyone used a slide rule to resolve something ?
Would you know how to use low tech ? One power outage puts folks into such a tizzy.
Jul '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
wilber forge: When is the last time anyone used a slide rule to resolve something ?
Would you know how to use low tech ? One power outage puts folks into such a tizzy. · Sep 16 at 8:06pm
So, what are You saying? Should We get ready for rolling slide rules?
Oct '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
It’s time for the ohh-so cool marketing shtick - the cleverly placed period: Slide. Rule.
Now, if I could just develop a use for it … must Think. Different.
Mar '11
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
wilber forge: When is the last time anyone used a slide rule to resolve something ?
Would you know how to use low tech ? One power outage puts folks into such a tizzy. · Sep 16 at 8:06pm
I brought one in to a Physics final to back up a Texas Instruments calculator that was starting to lose its ability to hold a charge. Carter was still President, to the extent that Carter was ever President.
May '10
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
I am not creative, I am old fashioned, I am hopelessly out of style. Rubber Duckie and I use twin Asus netbooks. They work just fine.
Jun '11
Re: Martini Shot: The Dell
Matt Labash has a message for you, Rob, over at The Daily Caller:
http://urlshort.me/35k