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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:19:42 +0000

At the risk of being mocked, I’m not convinced. I’m not convinced that Macs are that special and Steve Jobs is just a brilliant marketer. Would having a MacBook drastically change my life (as opposed to my HP laptop)?

By: universitydiary

universitydiary — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:55:17 +0000

scary!

By: Ultan

Ultan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:45:56 +0000

… though I would agree about the passage of time. If I may be so bold:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2680456736_5132b91d96_o.jpg

(December 1987, Arts Building Ramp, TCD. Pentax Spotmatic + 1.4 50mm).

By: PaddyAnglican

PaddyAnglican — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:49:58 +0000

I too am a returned exile and am happy to be back in appleland. Imac and iphone are 2 of my favourite toys! I have to confess however that I am typing this on a PC – A 7inch netbook by ASUS which cost all of €349 in Carphone Warehouse yesterday. Very impressed – previous versions ran linux but this runs xp and very well too. Running Safari browser so it feels a bit like a mac…or so I try to convince myself

By: Ultan

Ultan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:19:04 +0000

ah. yes, but you said you preferred … the Rolling Stones….

By: universitydiary

universitydiary — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:08:59 +0000

What a memory! I don’t mean the 1M on the Mac Plus, but rather Ultan’s recall of my desk! Yes, I did also purchase an SE 20, and believe it or not I still have it, and it boots just fine, but there’s damn all I can do with it now except play Reversi.

Ultan and I go back a long way. I still have a copy of the student magazine in which Ultan interviewed me way back when. His final question to me was what I thought of U2. Personally, I think I have aged better than they have…

By: Ultan

Ultan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:02:02 +0000

Oddly, In my mind’s eye I am still convinced that was an SE20 on your desk in TCD and not a Mac Plus.

Ironically with all the hoo-ha about Apple and Microsoft people miss the point about the OSX free BSD Unix kernel. I use a MacBook Pro with Unbuntu on Linux (and have an iPhone and too many iPods too).

Anyway, Here’s an old ad from a TCD student magazine from 1987 – check out those prices and processing power!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/2679192863_f0081f3129.jpg