Tuesday, January 6, 2004 |
20:34 - Dude, want a Dell?
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We can't give this thing away!
Lance and I both descended on Van's apartment today with the Dell in its shipping box; it had gone from our stairwell into my trunk, then to work, and then over to the apartment after Lance had already gotten there.
After putting the Dell on the counter, the conversation for the following hour was not about it at all, but about the potential purchase of a 12" PowerBook (which can slave-monitor Van's huge CRT) and GarageBand.
Thursday I'll be going up to MacWorld (there to meet up with Mike); I'll drag Van along with me, so we can see GarageBand up close and personal and verify that it's the CakeWalk-killer that it claims to be. And thereby to verify whether the Mac is the way Van's computing future shall go. (It'll be one more person brought into the intoxicating shared mass hallucination that is MacWorld; once you've felt the fizz, you can never truly claim virginity.)
And the Dell left with us, still unopened.
I had a brief vision of going from door to door in the apartment complex, ringing doorbells and yelling Dude! You're gettin' a Dell! to every hapless soul who opened the door. And getting rebuffed at every turn: No way, man! We're buyin' Macs! A silly vision, but a lasting one.
At least, I'm still giggling. But that proves nothing.
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