That's when I reach for my revolver
Someone sent me a link to a site called Inside Apple earlier today, which has an article up which is, I think, almost a parody of the last post:
It seems that in the past couple of months, I’ve read about and have personally seen more than a comfortable level of iMac G5’s hitting the dust a little sooner than originally expected. Surprisingly, even numerous second-generation iMac G5's have broken down short of their advertised life expectancy.
And on and on making points about the heat problems (And others, which yes, are very real) and then:
I may sound like I would never recommend the iMac G5 to friends or family. Not true. I find the iMac G5 to be a remarkable computer with its elegant design, along with the power of a PPC970 processor packed in behind its beautiful flat 17- or 20-inch liquid crystal display. Though I've seen many first-generation iMac G5's break down on numerous fronts, I haven't witnessed nearly as many second-generation iMac G5's break down on the same scale - and I'm confident - without any real facts to back it up - that of all the negativity I may witness in the iMac line of Apple products...
The guy wrote this a day or two before mine, but I hadn't seen it as The Drunken Eye of Sauron™ has been focused on other things and I'm not familiar with the site, but if I had I would have linked to it as an example because, um, what the hell.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 02, 2005, at 05:42 PM
Comments (14)
Posted by: mikey at August 2, 2005 05:49 PM
what the hell, indeed.
Posted by: superfunkomatic at August 2, 2005 06:21 PM
can't things be black and white at the same time. apparently this review thinks so - it's the best worst review i've read/not read lately.
that's when i reach for my revolver - great catherine wheel song too.
Posted by: at August 2, 2005 06:57 PM
isn't that a moby song?
Posted by: Andrew at August 2, 2005 08:27 PM
I believe the band you're looking for is Mission of Burma.
Posted by: Twist at August 2, 2005 10:09 PM
The iMac G5 is an elegant machine but I think it is completely lacking in personality which has been a hallmark of the iMac line since its birth. It just looks like a nice flatpanel monitor. The G4 iMac had tons of personality though. Largely due to the Pixar videos and the advertisements. I know this is completely off-topic but... what the hell ;)
Posted by: uv at August 3, 2005 01:14 AM
Great. Just when I bought an iMac G5... (though it is a first generation).
Posted by: Wes McGee at August 3, 2005 02:39 AM
UV, number 1, I'm feeling for you, man. Watch that thing like a hawk! I'm not really, really a mac user, but I do try to keep an eye for the good ones and if someone needs my ignorant opinion on one I want to give it to them, the good and the bad. (Yeah, I'm pushing people to portables mostly...)
To DB: from seeing the last post with Fanboy, I was half expecting this one to end with a cover with Bizarro. "Me am Batman drunken. Me like iMac. iMac burn down very long time." I saw that piece a few days ago, and it reads almost a parody of the most overly-devoted fan who has to push a product they know is questionable.
Posted by: Geoff Hoon MP at August 3, 2005 03:37 AM
It's not a song - it's most famously part of a quote by Goëring - "When I hear the word 'Culture' I reach for my revolver."
Although I think it was originally in a German play which predates the war.
Posted by: Diggory Laycock at August 3, 2005 03:40 AM
Hmm - whoops - put the wrong name in the above post's metadata.
Posted by: Squozen at August 3, 2005 04:21 AM
I guess I buy AppleCare when I get my iMac, eh? :)
Posted by: superfunkomatic at August 3, 2005 05:24 PM
hey moonie, actually it IS a song and it's by catherine wheel - see 30 century man by catherine wheel. great tune.
http://www.catherinewheel.com/discography.html
good literary quote too. ;)
Posted by: FZ at August 3, 2005 09:37 PM
It's actually a catchy, rocking Moby tune, too. I remember the anguish-y video and DJs spinning it in my fav rock disco at the time.
http://www.moby.org/reviews/revolver.html
Posted by: Jonathan Dodds at August 5, 2005 08:12 PM
It's all the same song. Moby and Catherine Wheel covered Mission of Burma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_of_Burma
http://missionofburma.com/lyrics/revolver.html
When you go 88 mph, you can go backwards, and forwards in time. So I think this explains things rather nicely.