If I knew anything about hardware (or macs) I would be all over helping to set your beautiful ruby imac. I really wanted one at the time, but there was no way I could afford one. Now I still can't really afford the equivalent, but I DO NOT WANT ONE, I want an orange clamshell ibook dammit. I have been thinking about ordering a broken one and fixing it, but my life is already pointless enough so I am holding back until I am drunk in charge of ebay.
I actually have an orange iBook which I bought a couple of years ago purely because I'd wanted one so badly when they came out, and now of course rarely use. Would possibly consider selling!
The ruby iMac at one time lived in the living-room as a courtesy computer for guests, but most guests bring their iPhones these days...
Ooh does it work? I would consider buying! I could use it, for, er, hacking! Or programming! Or going "oh for goodness sake where is the right click" button.
We had a Ruby iMac (now living with Trixie Bacon)! And a tangerine iBook. And all sorts of Apples, since bis0nfish used to use them at university in the 1980's, and I was given a second hand cube in 1994. I dread to think how many Apple products we have in our house, old and new, and I can't imagine life without them.
But as for influenced my life? Well sadly not much, I only got a iPod touch then a iPad this year, and it was only last month did I finally buy my first Mac (a custom 13" Macbook pro).
I would never have said that Apples products are the best that I've ever used or that I am utterly won over by OSX Lion, but I do like the fact that to work with they are fairly fluid and (apart from the terrible scratching on my iPod) fairly solid, with amazing battery time for portable devices.
That said even if I had still been a 100% windows guy, it's still hard to ignore Steve's influence. He helped popularise or made GUI's popular with the early Macs where such things where standard, his use and understanding of fonts made computers look and feel better.
Unlike an iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac it's something that ALL computer users now take for granted.
Mmm.. I'm thankful I'd (only just) gone to sleep before the news started to flood Twitter, else I'd probably have seen the sun rise first.
Quite amazing to think just how different the computing (and CGI, for that matter) industry would've been, had it not been for Jobs launching WIMPs into the mass marketplace. Shaking an industry up once would be an accomplishment, but multiple times?
Ah well. Apple's in good hands, so I imagine they've plenty more fun in store. Meanwhile, I can revel in a MacBook Pro that not only works beautifully, but looks as elegant as well; an iPad that's a joy to use whether out in the field (literally =:), in the bath, or on the sofa; and a fair few other natty devices over the years, all designed to try to get the technology out of the way, and simply let things happen, elegantly.
I say we petition Tim Cook to bring Clarus back, too. ^_^ (Still got a shirt with her on, but rather faded at this point)
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The ruby iMac at one time lived in the living-room as a courtesy computer for guests, but most guests bring their iPhones these days...
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They are so beautiful oh how I desired one.
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But as for influenced my life? Well sadly not much, I only got a iPod touch then a iPad this year, and it was only last month did I finally buy my first Mac (a custom 13" Macbook pro).
I would never have said that Apples products are the best that I've ever used or that I am utterly won over by OSX Lion, but I do like the fact that to work with they are fairly fluid and (apart from the terrible scratching on my iPod) fairly solid, with amazing battery time for portable devices.
That said even if I had still been a 100% windows guy, it's still hard to ignore Steve's influence. He helped popularise or made GUI's popular with the early Macs where such things where standard, his use and understanding of fonts made computers look and feel better.
Unlike an iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac it's something that ALL computer users now take for granted.
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Quite amazing to think just how different the computing (and CGI, for that matter) industry would've been, had it not been for Jobs launching WIMPs into the mass marketplace. Shaking an industry up once would be an accomplishment, but multiple times?
Ah well. Apple's in good hands, so I imagine they've plenty more fun in store. Meanwhile, I can revel in a MacBook Pro that not only works beautifully, but looks as elegant as well; an iPad that's a joy to use whether out in the field (literally =:), in the bath, or on the sofa; and a fair few other natty devices over the years, all designed to try to get the technology out of the way, and simply let things happen, elegantly.
I say we petition Tim Cook to bring Clarus back, too. ^_^ (Still got a shirt with her on, but rather faded at this point)
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I do hope Apple continue to innovate and amaze. That will be a hell of a legacy!
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