my gateway drug's silver

my ibook is sterile white. i haven't seen it for over a year. it's somewhere in my sister's basement studio.

the powerbook is silver. he's such a cutie. sala cafe quarter-owner edwin laughed at me. "nevermind functionality!" to which the appropriate demure reply is, "of course."

oh, PCs will always rule the world. i saw someone using a white sony 12-inch at a starbucks a few weeks before the powerbook came into my world, and i wanted that, but since the michigan avenue sony store's gone out of business, there was nowhere to get that cutie but online. so i went to the apple store instead.

most businesses still use PCs - but it's good that some schools will make you use both, if only to prepare you for whatever job you might land.

but what really freaks me out is how quickly the macintosh computer's latched on to consumers. oh, they do crash, i've seen it. the tekkie had to take the poor imac apart and replace this menacing band of circuitry. "it just happens, from normal use," the wright college graphic designer said, as if it were an old, tired pair of socks.

there is but one ipod among my siblings, and because we never see it - unless it's plugged snugly into the youngest's ears - we're considering a second to join our brood.

apple's invasion prolly started with those really giddy, ultrafearless, "go on, mock me" TV and billboard ads of the gummylooking imacs - those huge computers with the rounded backs and the brightly colored semitransparent plastic body. the ad made the macs look like eager to please, jumping caramel popcorn. it just made you want to respond to their cries, "gimme a shot!"

and macs almost... talk to you. ahahahaha! [ salon.com: mac_is_the_future ]  ¶ 1/31/2005 10:23:00 AM