tech industry
03/04/2005, 1:20pm, EST
Friday, March 4th
Briefly: Intel's Mac mini clone, DVD Fest...
In brief: MacroEnter is offering Architosh readers a $100 Discount off the Encad T200 Plus wide format CAD and graphics color plotter.... On Saturday, March 5, the fourth annual DVD Fest will be held at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The showing of the films will begin at 7:30 in Carleton’s Concert Hall.... "The potential of the immaculately designed Mac mini to replicate the runaway popularity of the iPod [...] has Intel worried. Why else would it [exhibit] a concept that is almost a carbon copy of the Mac mini?".... When PC Pitstop introduced its new PC optimization software in September 2004, it buried a special financial consideration clause in the license agreement: and after 4 months, one person finally noticed.
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If they were actually *selling* such a thing, you could chalk it up to marketing, but in putting it forth as a concept design they just end up looking stupid.
Mind you, on the *technical* end of things they're doing some very impressive work...
It's just innovative packaging, nothing earth shattering like, say the first LAPtop that didn't break your lap!
... Intel can design a PC with a smallform factor, but why bother? Intel doesn't have a worthwhile OS to run on it. Or a decent chip to power it. It's like those "cargo cult" pacific islanders, who, in awe of the airplanes they started seeing in the skies started aping them by making airplane-shaped idols out of palm fronds and sticks.
The entire PC industry runs like this. They wail and sling FUD where the mac is concerned but whenever Apple releases a mind-bending device the PC gang follows...
It reminds me of a scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian...
Brian is fleeing a village, loses a sandal and the crowd chasing him, who believe he is the Messiah, interpret the meaning of the sandal and how best to worship with it. It's both hilarious and pitiful.
He's NOT the Messiah! But Apple really seems to be the PC industry's!