I saw a familiar face with a familiar voice walk up to the Genius Bar, point to the stack of Leopard along the wall, and say "Meow". :D

I was one of the many who were wearing certain short-sleeved black t-shirts answering questions as best we could. I wanted to come over and say hello, but it was . . . busy!

Good luck with the install and have fun with the spotted cat!

We've been putting off a new iMac purchase because we wanted to wait for this neww OS. But should we just replace the crapped out hard drive in our current iMac, buy more memory and the OS?

Stacks look really cool, by the way.

For the love of God, don't open The Crate! Weight it down with cement blocks and throw it back overboard. If you DO open The Crate, do NOT listen to Mr. Scratch. You CAN'T trust him!

Regarding question about upgrading RAM and HD in older iMac...

If it's a G5 or better, it's worth upgrading. If not, then buy a new Mac.

Actually, I DID tell myself to buy Apple stock when Steve Jobs came back to Apple. I just didn't listen. Darn it.

www.richardmac.com

Can't you download this? How outdated.

Its 10:30 am and no one has posted a complaint about the new "cash only for iPhones" policy. You're definitely slacking, Mr Leaks. ;)

Let's see...I could either stand in line at the Apple store at the mega-mall or I could pre-order and have a smiling FedEx man deliver it to my doorstep bright and early Friday morning.

Not a hard decision--plus, I didn't increase my carbon footprint by needlessly driving my Gaia-choking SUV across town.

I think I deserve a gold star by my name for today.

Go back to college, NOW.

And for the love of all that's holy, don't marry him!

I ordered my upgrade from Apple.

It came "Signature required", something I hadn't planned on. Worse, I was actually in the house (and saw the FedEx truck!) but he either didn't ring the doorbell or it malfunctioned. Instead, I got the dreaded "We missed you!" tag.

So, at 6:30 last night I was standing in line AT THE FEDEX DEPOT with 6 other members of what my daughter called the "Nerd Herd", waiting for my Leopard upgrade.

Trust me, the Apple store is a much more pleasant place to stand in line. Apparently this was quite a deal for Fedex, the lady at the counter took one look at my slip and said "oh, another one of _those_".

I upgraded my tertiary computer to Ubuntu "Gutsy Gibbon" at home, for free, last night. I'm beginning to think that both Apple and MicroSoft need to start worrying about free linux/bsd operating systems stealing their market share.

Funny thing about that.

I ordered it from Amazon, at $20 of, and will be getting it in the mail on Monday.

So they're paying me $10 a day not to stand in line.

Not a great hourly rate, but it's for something I'd be doing anyway.

This is the first Mac stand in line event I missed in the Twin Cities since the MOA Apple store opened. It is always cool to get the Tee shirt and stand in line with other Mac addicts I know. But I had driven 400 miles yesterday and hit the Twin Cities about 8 PM. Another 10 miles and another hour away from home was just out of the cards for me.

My saner mind now wants to wait and see how the upgrades go from others before placing my Mac before the upgrade gods. Yeah I'll hold off maybe until. . .um tomorrow.

Davydd
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It is just nice to see so many Mac users in 2007, makes my heart go pitty pat and I feel less like loser for going with MAC for the last 20+ years.

I have an original Mac upgraded to "FAT MAC" and I can still boot it and use Macwrite. I love my SE 30, my first MAC I could used "on-line."

An Apple Store is around the corner from where I work, I may stroll in there on Monday (^_^) and act nonchalant.

-pass the kool-aid

... call your dad more often.

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Are we all plugging our websites here now?

www.bunnyroseblog.com

hehehe.

to trust my gut on guys, and that I would not end up alone, or have to aim below myself.

...is the picture of James and family waiting meekly in line to have the doubleplus good chips subdermally implanted to harmonize their brainwaves with Chairman Job's.

Sheesh. Lilek's need to be all things Mac exceeds his need to stockpile lavendar soap and toilet paper.

I would hope that my 1997 self could gather a lot of information just by the sight of me 10-years older. But if I was allowed to utter only one sentence to my 10-year-younger self... it might be, "Get off the internet and get outside." Or maybe, "Stay ON the internet and in a few years buy-up shares in Google." But, most likely I'd just say, "Holy crow, I'm so young and thin and my skin looks great!!" Then get zapped back to now and slap my forehead and go, "DOH!"

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It's that you're no longer allowed to pay cash for an iPhone, in an apparent effort to disocurage reselling and/or unlocking.

I'd comment on how nerdy it is to stand in line for a piece of computer software, but I camped out in line for Windows 98 (and a couple of the accompanying bargains) back when it came out. I've also camped out for Halo 2, an Xbox 360 on launch day, and most recently a Wii on launch day.

And what I'd tell myself ten years ago? "Get the heck out of that tech support call center before it truly starts to suck, and get a real job."

You'd want some advice on when to sell it, too.

Otherwise you ride it all the way back down to zero again.

Tell your 1997 self to buy domain names... you'd make millions. Some did.

Dude, you are so screwed.

:-)

I'd hand my younger self some information on a particular twenty guys and say, "see those guys? Tell the government about these guys. Tell them to tighten their airport security by, I don't know, 2001. Get to it!"

Then I'd be totally ignored by the government, being only 6.

Nah, I'd be more likely to say, "tell daddy to buy google. Got that? Buy...Google. Lots of Google. Googoo gaga Google...Bye now!"

1) Never believe something just because Dan Rather tells you.

2) Don't be in such a hurry to completely switch over to Linux.

3) Stop being so narrow-minded about religion and religious people.

4) Don't get rid of your turntable.

5) Go ahead and take that Farsi class. It's going to come in handy someday.

6) Your girlfriend is an alcoholic and a psychopath. Get her out of your life completely and immediately.

7) While we're on the subject, you could stand to stop drinking so much yourself.

8) When gas hits $1.75 a gallon, do not complain.

9) Dogs are awesome. Don't wait so long to get one.

10) Your parents love you and are trying their best to be nice to you and help you. Quit being such a dickhead to them.

11) Do not bet against the Red Sox. You don't have to like 'em, just don't bet against 'em. Trust me.

12) When the shit hits the fan, stay cool. You'll know what I'm talking about.

Take care, you --

~DLW '07

"In ten years, Apple will be selling PC clones running Unix, with no support for any of the Mac software that exists today. And yet people will insist that these machines are Macs, instead of acknowledging that the Macintosh died and Apple replaced it with a PC clone running Unix."

Nope. I've lived it and I still don't believe it.

I mean, you could buy a PC in 1997, and you could buy OpenStep for Intel in 1997, and it wouldn't have run any classic Macintosh apps. Today you can buy a PC of ten years' more recent vintage, running a ten years' more recent version of OpenStep, which similarly doesn't run any classic Mac apps. If the first wasn't a Mac, and the second is, where does the Mac-ness reside, exactly?

Here, drink this. You'll feel better.