whats up with apple kids?
Ok so the apple event has come and gone, and yes there was a bit of goodness in there but already the event has not lived up to the hype and buzz it generated on the net... so as usual we're drowning in the all the "is apple gonna make it" type entries over the past 1 day since the event.
The web works differently than our notion of time. A day on the web is like a week, and a week is like a month. Already people are dissecting the "what went wrong" with the apple announcement saying things like "oh the let down" or "apple's new gizmo is off the mark.." when in reality, hello people, its been one frickin day.
Thats how scary it is on the web really. Ya gotta keep it all in perspective but when you leap from blog to blog or briskly run thru the diggs you can too easily get consumed by the tide of the net no matter how purely fanatical, wrong, presumptuous, naggy, outright idiotic the net can sometimes be.
"Sometimes" is far too nice really, considering that lately the tide of the web has gone under massive investigation. Lots of players on the web are trying to tap into the tide, cash in on the tide, dissect the tide and so on. Perhaps tide isn't the best word for it, maybe its more about the undertow, ya thats it.. thats the thing my father always warned me about..."be careful of the undertow..." well the nets undertow is freakish these days.
So back to apple. Ok, so they didn't announce the UltraCoolAssGizmo#5 we all wanted to hear. They did in fact announce something new thought, a hi-fi ipod boom-box and a new intel mac mini.
We all saw the intel mac mini coming, the whole line will go intel, we see that, we should realize what that means. What we didn't see is the dvr aspects of the mac mini coming into play. There is some goodness happening there, very cool. I'm soooo very glad i didn't buy a $499 mac mini a month ago at micro center, even with its crazy deal of lcd monitor and printer included at that price. Thats always a big warning sign - the mass dumping of hardware to prepare for something new coming.
The mac mini does feature some nice new add-ons. The idea of a solo intel core seems odd, i guess if they wanted to make it cheap thats one way to do it. It also seems like selling a car with three wheels, sure it still rolls, but... umm ok lets get that 4th wheel ok. Right away, within hours of the announcement the new intel mini has been dissected, torn apart, examined, photographed, documented in various ways on the net. Of course rather than considering the good things, lets all jump on the band wagon of the bad - the integrated intel graphics card.
Bad apple! People are screaming, the undertow tells me its a big deal, and I'm wondering is it really? Anything integrated when it comes to graphic cards is like a big FU to geeks in general. The idea that your graphics card is trapped in the motherboard assumes it just sucks. And maybe it does for certain things, like games, which is the primary point the undertow seems to be getting at, but that point quickly gets lost in all the chatter and soon all you get is the residual vibe that apple has done something horrible to all of us.. man, dog, cat... history.
Chalk it up to the great plan I say. Sure its not ideal but we are talking about form factor that is the size of a modern day bible, not huge, just the basics. Sadly the graphics card issue overshadows some of the coolness added to the intel mini, like the gigabit ethernet...audio in/out.. ok so maybe not alot there, hey its alot faster!!!
So far very few real reviews of substance have arrived on the hi-fi boom-box. In fact the reviews that have arrived do everything but tell you what it sounds like. Why is it that the intel mac mini can be ripped apart and dissected in complete detail just hours after the event and the hi-fi boom-box.. well sure we have one, we tell all its bits.. but we dare not report about how it sounds. All these reviews i read about it give me that feeling as if ive been told about this awesome new band, and they tell me everything about the band other than what they sound like. Plainly put, wtf is with these reviews on the boom-box, are people under some sort of order not to report on what it actually sounds like? Don't judge it on how it sounds!! Just get one.. or better yet, judge it based on its on switch location or, this connector thing or that other thing.
The lack of real info now going into day 3 after the event on the hi-fi boom-box is upsetting to me. Not one blip of info on the net can be found as to tell me how it actually sounds. That is hilarious to me. Everyone can tell me its white, show me a picture, yes they were there, but no idea, no notion of what it may sound like, as if i must experience it myself, and surely i will, but until then.. can someone gimme a frickin clue? Otherwise, just don't report it. Its a news bullet with no specifics, something happened, cant tell you want, but it did, cant tell you the magnitude, but it happened, it was big, probably, cant say, was it political, maybe, global impacting, probably... look it was big, you should definitely read up on it, yet i have no details, but get one... nice webosphere... nice.
The web works differently than our notion of time. A day on the web is like a week, and a week is like a month. Already people are dissecting the "what went wrong" with the apple announcement saying things like "oh the let down" or "apple's new gizmo is off the mark.." when in reality, hello people, its been one frickin day.
Thats how scary it is on the web really. Ya gotta keep it all in perspective but when you leap from blog to blog or briskly run thru the diggs you can too easily get consumed by the tide of the net no matter how purely fanatical, wrong, presumptuous, naggy, outright idiotic the net can sometimes be.
"Sometimes" is far too nice really, considering that lately the tide of the web has gone under massive investigation. Lots of players on the web are trying to tap into the tide, cash in on the tide, dissect the tide and so on. Perhaps tide isn't the best word for it, maybe its more about the undertow, ya thats it.. thats the thing my father always warned me about..."be careful of the undertow..." well the nets undertow is freakish these days.
So back to apple. Ok, so they didn't announce the UltraCoolAssGizmo#5 we all wanted to hear. They did in fact announce something new thought, a hi-fi ipod boom-box and a new intel mac mini.
We all saw the intel mac mini coming, the whole line will go intel, we see that, we should realize what that means. What we didn't see is the dvr aspects of the mac mini coming into play. There is some goodness happening there, very cool. I'm soooo very glad i didn't buy a $499 mac mini a month ago at micro center, even with its crazy deal of lcd monitor and printer included at that price. Thats always a big warning sign - the mass dumping of hardware to prepare for something new coming.
The mac mini does feature some nice new add-ons. The idea of a solo intel core seems odd, i guess if they wanted to make it cheap thats one way to do it. It also seems like selling a car with three wheels, sure it still rolls, but... umm ok lets get that 4th wheel ok. Right away, within hours of the announcement the new intel mini has been dissected, torn apart, examined, photographed, documented in various ways on the net. Of course rather than considering the good things, lets all jump on the band wagon of the bad - the integrated intel graphics card.
Bad apple! People are screaming, the undertow tells me its a big deal, and I'm wondering is it really? Anything integrated when it comes to graphic cards is like a big FU to geeks in general. The idea that your graphics card is trapped in the motherboard assumes it just sucks. And maybe it does for certain things, like games, which is the primary point the undertow seems to be getting at, but that point quickly gets lost in all the chatter and soon all you get is the residual vibe that apple has done something horrible to all of us.. man, dog, cat... history.
Chalk it up to the great plan I say. Sure its not ideal but we are talking about form factor that is the size of a modern day bible, not huge, just the basics. Sadly the graphics card issue overshadows some of the coolness added to the intel mini, like the gigabit ethernet...audio in/out.. ok so maybe not alot there, hey its alot faster!!!
So far very few real reviews of substance have arrived on the hi-fi boom-box. In fact the reviews that have arrived do everything but tell you what it sounds like. Why is it that the intel mac mini can be ripped apart and dissected in complete detail just hours after the event and the hi-fi boom-box.. well sure we have one, we tell all its bits.. but we dare not report about how it sounds. All these reviews i read about it give me that feeling as if ive been told about this awesome new band, and they tell me everything about the band other than what they sound like. Plainly put, wtf is with these reviews on the boom-box, are people under some sort of order not to report on what it actually sounds like? Don't judge it on how it sounds!! Just get one.. or better yet, judge it based on its on switch location or, this connector thing or that other thing.
The lack of real info now going into day 3 after the event on the hi-fi boom-box is upsetting to me. Not one blip of info on the net can be found as to tell me how it actually sounds. That is hilarious to me. Everyone can tell me its white, show me a picture, yes they were there, but no idea, no notion of what it may sound like, as if i must experience it myself, and surely i will, but until then.. can someone gimme a frickin clue? Otherwise, just don't report it. Its a news bullet with no specifics, something happened, cant tell you want, but it did, cant tell you the magnitude, but it happened, it was big, probably, cant say, was it political, maybe, global impacting, probably... look it was big, you should definitely read up on it, yet i have no details, but get one... nice webosphere... nice.