> The ads Apple is doing to poke fun at Vista and promote Leopard are
> wickedly on.
They do make Windows look silly, but they also show
the popular Apple mentality in a bright light that's not so
flattering. Is there anything more annoying than the
tragically hip, fa****onably non-conformist, desperately
relaxed, and calculatedly spontaneous style of the
Mac-user persona in the ad? I imagine a young Oregonian
yuppie who likes to think different, living in the woods in a
solar house, who jumps into his SUV to go buy lunch at
McDonalds, make a withdrawal from his trust fund, buy
some new jeans that look pre-hiked-in, and pick up a CD
of "cool" whale song to listen to later, over a joint and a
cup of herb tea (containing the latest fa****onable
Andean rain forest wonder drug). ... The life of a
transcendentally discerning consumer. :)
> I just wish Leopard ran on my new PC and ran the latest
> Java. I would buy Leopard for myself as an early Christmas present.
> It should not be too long now that Apple has flipped to Intel chips.
>
Don't hold your breath. They tried that once and
lost money.
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