the iiieeeMac

the novelty of apple imac

apple has been around for longer than anyone cared to remember. from the humble (but rather artistic superball ad) beginning, at least my generation has already remembered apple as those boxes with funny one button mice and an apple with a bite off. Oh and that episode in forest gump. but lately with the taking off of apple's ipod and unsurprisingly their share price, steve jobs has done a stellar job of brining back apple to the public eye. their latest imac is yet another
style and functional statement that screams "fuck you dell". however the delicate point of apple's design allow rooms for deliberation by ppl such as myself.

once upon a time, monitors are huge dinasour shaped beings that non-geeks mistake for "computer". we in the loop have been fending the insultative remark of "that's a large computer" while pointing at our monitor for years. thankfully with the advent of LCD, we no long look like idiots with two metal boxes but idiots with one metal box and one panel. sort of 1.5 idiots. So now comes the question: is imac design really that good? personally i start to have doubts. so imacs is sort of a huge laptop stick on the back of a LCD. so how do u upgrade stuff? most ppl store their mini tower under their desk out of sight anyway, so is the rare hassle of kicking some stray cable really worth all the effort? if you are thinking this, you are, like me,
an unstylish yobbo who buy from big W and shop at Bi-Lo. we are missing the entire point here. the minimalist design appear to those wannabes who digs coolness over functionality.