Re: FN-FORUM New iMac

date posted 10th January 2002 10:20

hehe!
She used to cook whole aubergines on a rotary grill which lead me to believe
my parents ate giant beatles! I still find it hard to eat aubergines now.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Gentle" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM New iMac


> Now... Tell me about your mother :-|>
>
> --------------->
> 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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> > Nicholas Berry
> > http://www.artberry.net
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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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