{"id":2694,"date":"2003-01-08T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T22:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/apple-kool-aid-for-2003\/"},"modified":"2003-01-08T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T22:18:34","slug":"apple-kool-aid-for-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/08\/apple-kool-aid-for-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Kool-Aid for 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe True Believers at Mac World were gifted with a 17″ laptop<\/a>, a 12″ laptop<\/a>, a proprietary web browser<\/a>, and a Power Point clone<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Yawn.<\/p>\n

Putting a big screen on a laptop should enable you to solve the biggest problem faced by laptop users, the tiny keyboard. But instead of giving the 17″ Powerbook a full-sized keyboard with the ample real estate provided by the large display, Apple decided to backlight the tiny keys instead. Clue: you don’t have to look at the keys if the keyboard is large enough.<\/p>\n

Insanely Great? More like Collossally dumb.<\/p>\n

The funniest part of this year’s Apple hype is video promo<\/a> featuring West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin (about 45% of the way in). They’re right about one thing: Apple is the machine for you if you think The West Wing is good TV.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: It turns out the new Powerbooks also leave unaddressed the other two issues that limit the utility of laptops: battery life and CPU speed. The fastest CPU Apple sells is still 1 GHz, and the battery life of these babies is limited to something like 4.5 hrs. The machines have an ultra-thin, 1″ case, but who cares?<\/p>\n

Mac acolyte David Plotnikoff more or less explains<\/a> Apple’s appeal in his account of Mac World in the Mercury: when you buy an Apple, you aren’t getting a computer, you’re getting a membership card in the Creative Class. Now isn’t that special?<\/p>\n

ANOTHER UPDATE: What application is ideal for a laptop with a big screen, a fast WiFi connection, and a paltry keyboard? The only one I can think of is downloading porn, but maybe there’s another. As it stands, the 17″ Powerbook is the leading contender for the Wanker’s Choice Award for 2003.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The True Believers at Mac World were gifted with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}