RE: FN-FORUM New iMac

date posted 10th January 2002 10:06

Now... Tell me about your mother :-|>

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You poor poor child. I can sympathise with you on that.
I too had a train engine when I was a child, it had tracks and a full
set
with figurines and carriages and it was really nice. The problem was
though
the other bits were really ugly and the couplings for the carriages was
different to the engines and the gauge was the wrong girth and the
figurines
were the wrong scale. The whole thing just never worked well together
and
looked stupid and a real mish mash of bits, some of which I never needed
or
didn't want. And when I tried to get it all fixed the toy shop owner
just
kept shaking his head muttering 'you shouldn't be playing with this,
it's
not a toy you know. It's only for adults s'why it looks so boring an
austere'. Eventually it was all put right and I remember that day well.
I
ran home after school and straight to my train set. I placed the engine
on
the tracks and coupled the carriages, picked up the control box and
turned
the dial to forward. Nothing happened. Turns out the engine driver was
too
old by this time and needed updating. I got tired of all this and for my
next birthday I asked for a remote control car. It was great. I took it
out
of the box, put in the batteries and off it went. Great fun.
So inspite of having a wonderful engine with a boring ugly set of
accessories, I too never got to play with my train set. I spent all the
time
trying to get it working.
=)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Berry" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:09 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM New iMac


> I suppose I'm a bit negative about Imacs myself because When I was
very
> young I wanted a train set and my parents bought me a little engine,
it
was
> really nice, but it didn't have any rails with it and I can remember
> frustratedly trying to tell my parents "wailings wailings" trying to
get
> them to understand it wasn't like a real train, I don't think my
parents
> thought I could possibly be that bright, but eventually I got through
to
> them and I got a new train set with wailings :) I suppose I was quite
spoilt
> in some ways. But the trouble with Imacs they remind me of the trauma
of
> having something not quite a full shilling and the whole marketing
strategy
> seems patronising when you just know a real computer has two mouse
buttons
> and a floppy disk drive and you can add loads of extra bits to it. So
I'm
> afraid the entire imac concept is completely lost on me.
>
> Nick
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Neelesh
Sonawane
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:41 PM
> To: freelancers
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM New iMac
>
>
> Out of interest how many consumer PC have been upgraded since they've
been
> bought. Most consumer users are too scared to do things like that so
for
the
> general consumer the iMac (which does allow piss easy RAM upgrading,
plus,
> to a level most consumer PCs cannot count up to ;-} ) is quite
suitable.
> Apart from the supposedly faster processors and larger screens of
consumer
> PCs iMacs are specced to match for their purpose and market position.
> Not everybody wants a 4x4, I want an old 3 series BMW and my fiancée
wants
> (and has) a camper van.
>
> On 09/01/02 05:58 pm, "Nicholas Berry" [EMAIL REMOVED]
wrote:
>
>
> > quite nice. But generally I have found Imacs to be very limited,
also
the
> > new OS seems untidy and cluttered (worse than Windows XP)
particularly
on
> > what is usually a very small integral screen (closed architecture
integral
> > and non upgradable), saying that do shop assistants really know
anything
> > about computers?
> >
> > I suppose really being realistic though I think the Imac is a bit of
a
> Robin
> > Reliant of a computer or even a Bond bug (that had style). There is
a
> market
> > for quirky plastic things one can drive on a Motirbike licence no
doubt
> but
> > most people go for 4 wheels or an all terrain vehicle even ;) This
isn't
> to
> > say that some Macs have 4 wheels to, always remember the Reliant
Scimitar
> ;)
> >
> > Nick
>
>
>
>
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