technobang

just when i thought i had found the best laptop ever in my 12″ powerbook G4 Apple made a deal with Intel and releases the MacBook Pro. Well looks like Powerbook is old school now, but oh well. Anyway, i’ve always found it amuzing when people automatically assume that Mac laptops are dual proc’s because many of the desktop Mac’s do. Well, this is now finally a reality, which is sweet. I can’t wait to try one, i’m willing to be it’ll beat the piss out of an incredibly exspensive Alienware Dual-Core notebook. Yeah, it’s obvious that they’re meant for different purposes, but for those of us who don’t game, let alone on the go, i think Intel’s Centrino based dualcore with OS X would be the shit on the go, for a traveling professional or a student. From what i’ve been told by Intel reps, that Intel has really been focusing on power consumption to performance, i.e. Centrino. Now that Centrino is going dual core, or “core dou” as they’ve been calling it, and going to 65nm these things are supposed to be about 5 times faster than my 11 month old Powerbook. Damn, the only thing that conforts me is how slow the software industry is and how long it’ll be before they A. Port already popular Mac apps to x86 code or B. attract new software vendors to write code, as Apple always has, and which we all know probably won’t happen. Hell, how many applications do you have on your PC that actually uses a lot of the hardware driven technologies that improve performance, like multi threading for SMP, dual-core, HT processors, SSE3, 3DNow! Professional, etc. I think these hardware changes are great and all, and will undoubtably improve performance, i’m just courious/concerned to see how long it’ll take the software industry to catch up to this rather fast start to 2006.

am i the only one looking forward to this year? vista? the apocalypse!?!

Apple DVR/OS X/XP/Vista/Linux, all on separate cores? ;-)

After reading and rereading and rereading and rereading my little Blu-Ray rant, I came to a wonderful conclusion: I don’t fucking care about Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. At all.

Current technology news is completely boring. I’m tired of hearing about the next shit-fest that one of the technology giants has to offer. Frankly the next DVD standard doesn’t mean a damn thing to me, the whole thing is completly irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. I can see it turning into the next dual-standard, where the most popular company (or more popular standard?) demolishes the competition.

Bottom line is it doesn’t matter. It’s all marketing.

Does anyone remember the day when innovation was brought on by necessity? When truly amazing things were invented not because someone will make a huge profit off it, but actually gain something they needed? Well shit, those were simpler times, things actually had a pinch of quality backing it. The first example of this that comes to mind is Dell—any intelligent IT guru’s (I am not an IT guru, fuck you) technological pariah.

A decade ago, owning a Dell was owning the king of prebuilt OEM machines. Today, owning a Dell is owning a refurbished peice of shit you bought for $399. Aren’t you proud of your lavish investment? Go suck a railroad spike, you ass.

I despise people who own Dells today, because they have the same attitude as someone who owned a Dell a decade ago—they falsely believe they own the king of PC’s, and they make every effort to rub it in your face. Every time someone calls me with a computer question and I come back saying it’s likely the hardware, the response I get EVERY TIME is “oh, well it’s a Dell.” Oh, really? It’s a Dell? Really?

THAT’S THE GODDAMN PROBLEM.

You have a Dell, your hard drive failed not because the drive was subjected to conditions that would cause it to fail, but because there is a very small label on it that says “factory reconditioned.” Know what that means? It means Dell is willingly putting shit in your computer to cut costs. That’s how it works, you know. How do you think PC companies can offer computers at such low prices? You’re paying for some asshole sitting in a cubicle at Dell or HP or Gateway saying “okay, well, company A can offer us 10,000 refurbished motherboards at a 3 dollar discount.”

Haha, tools.