Hell Just Froze Over

[adderslj]

From a press release that just dropped into my in-box:

CUPERTINO, California—August 2, 2005—Apple® today introduced Mighty Mouse, its next generation mouse with several innovative new features that make using a Mac® even more powerful and easy. Mighty Mouse offers power users up to four independently programmable buttons, without compromising simplicity for users who prefer just a single-button mouse. Mighty Mouse also introduces an ingenious Scroll Ball that lets users scroll in any direction—vertically, horizontally and even diagonally. With the Scroll Ball, users can scroll with natural, fluid movements, making Mighty Mouse perfect for applications from viewing web pages and photographs, to video editing and music creation. Mighty Mouse is priced at just £35 (inc. VAT).

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[adders.livejournal.com]

*looks at side of iBook. Fails to find audio in port*

Oh yeah. The sales guy was spot on. :)

FWIW, while Macs are that touch more expensive than Windows laptops, the bundled software you get with them really boost the value-for-money ratio.

[sailormur.livejournal.com]

That is a very good point. I am looking forward to testing out Garageband.

[izzylobo.livejournal.com]

I will also say that while Apple laptops are not necessarily the utterly bulletproof monsters of impervious reliability they were a few years ago, they are still significantly better, overall, than many of their competitors when it comes to HW reliability, sturdiness, and service length.

(This is not to say you cannot buy good PC hardware that will last forever and a day - I'm sitting in front of a Presario 17xl and a Toshiba 7140CT that put the lie to that statement - but both machines are 4+ years old, and my experience with more recent PC laptops is decidedly less optimistic in this regard, given how many new-or-nearly-so Dell and Compaq laptops I've had to have in for service at various places of employment over the last three years).

Scott