God help Granny Smith

Somehow I find it appropriate that Darth Jobs and his orchard stormtroopers choose to introduce their newest fruit in the cowardly, rude country France instead of the United States of America. Bad smells beget bad smells? Typical of his disregard of the consuming American Public. And people wonder why they only have a 3% market share? Hell, do they even deserve that much?! Related article at BBC News/Technology.

Here's the specs on this new wonder machine:

ENTRY LEVEL iMAC G5

17-inch widescreen LCD with 1440-by-900 pixels
1.6 GHz 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor
256MB of 400 MHz DDR SDRAM
Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB video memory
Two FireWire 400, three USB 2.0, two USB 1.1 ports
10/100 BASE-T Ethernet networking, 56K V.92 modem
Internal support for AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth
80GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 7200 rpm
Built-in stereo speakers and microphone

Let's see, last Dell workstation I installed had a 3 GHz CPU with 512 megs o' de RAM, 17" LCD, etc. It probably cost 1/2 the price too. Yesiree bobtail. That Steve Jobs is a marketing genius! And I am NOT real crazy about Michael Dell either.

"There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth."
-Lord Byron