Macworld UK - Mac celebrates 21st birthday
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Macworld UK reports on today's 21st anniversary of the launch of the Mac. It's kind of a shame there won't be any special products to celebrate this milestone, but the unfortunate fact in this industry is that today's limited edition product is tomorrow's landfill. In fact, we have a sad and abandoned 20th Anniversary Mac in our repair department. Forgotten and unloved, this brown, 603e machine with an undersized display wasn't really worthy of its name.
Which reminds me. If you ever want to know whether a product is worth buying, a trip to the local household waste recycling centre can be salutory. Take Dyson, for example. I was at the local dump the other weekend, and there was a fetching display of abandoned dysons lined up against one of the skips. Seven or eight of them, various colours. Now, you might think, they were old, after all. But a vacuum cleaner can last for decades for chrissake! I know several Dyson owners who swear by them, in much the same way 20th Anniversary Mac owners probably have their own club. But few people have the gumption to admit when they've been sold a bucket of dogshit by a bunter.
So my advice re vacuum cleaners: get a Sebo. Especially good if you have an asthmatic in the house. And remember this: it's not about suction, it's about brushes.
Macworld UK reports on today's 21st anniversary of the launch of the Mac. It's kind of a shame there won't be any special products to celebrate this milestone, but the unfortunate fact in this industry is that today's limited edition product is tomorrow's landfill. In fact, we have a sad and abandoned 20th Anniversary Mac in our repair department. Forgotten and unloved, this brown, 603e machine with an undersized display wasn't really worthy of its name.
Which reminds me. If you ever want to know whether a product is worth buying, a trip to the local household waste recycling centre can be salutory. Take Dyson, for example. I was at the local dump the other weekend, and there was a fetching display of abandoned dysons lined up against one of the skips. Seven or eight of them, various colours. Now, you might think, they were old, after all. But a vacuum cleaner can last for decades for chrissake! I know several Dyson owners who swear by them, in much the same way 20th Anniversary Mac owners probably have their own club. But few people have the gumption to admit when they've been sold a bucket of dogshit by a bunter.
So my advice re vacuum cleaners: get a Sebo. Especially good if you have an asthmatic in the house. And remember this: it's not about suction, it's about brushes.
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Monday, January 24, 2005
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