RIP Steve Jobs

[Sysman]

Ah, computers are judged on looks. Best get down that server room and throw a few switches off.

Nah, I'm talking about home computers and laptops.

You have obviously not had the hassle of smuggling computer kit into the home in the face of opposition by the lady of the house.

[Bunk]

Ah, computers are judged on looks. Best get down that server room and throw a few switches off.

I don't poke around in the server room. If I need to access a server I do it remotely, from my Macbook Pro. If you're using something everyday it's worth paying a bit extra for something that's nice to use.

[Zoiderman]

Nah, I'm talking about home computers and laptops.

You have obviously not had the hassle of smuggling computer kit into the home in the face of opposition by the lady of the house.

I have a very attractive Vaio laptop, and a death defyingly ugly DELL server, and a few other things I have laying about that I have forgotten about. More distressingly, especially given the context of my argument here, is that the bearer of my 3 darling children wants an iPad for them, and an iMac for her and we all know the direction of these kinds of discussions...

[Zoiderman]

I don't poke around in the server room. If I need to access a server I do it remotely, from my Macbook Pro. If you're using something everyday I believe it's worth paying a bit extra for something that's nice to use.

FTFY

[NickFitz]

RIP BYTE magazine.

Aye.

It were all green fields around here back then.

From the bookshelf, a rather dogeared copy of Byte from November 1988, featuring the NeXT cube: Steve Jobs' new "machine for the '90s" (linked to full-size 17MB scan):

I remember reading that review in a freezing cold waiting room at Birmingham New Street in the early hours of a Sunday morning as my girlfriend kipped on the floor. We'd been to Nottingham for the day. After a rather long evening in the Salutation we both fell asleep on the last train home and ended up, much against our wishes, in Brum

Of course the NextStep OS from that machine lives on as Cocoa in the current OS X and iOS, as evidenced by the number of classes whose name begins NS

[Churchill]

I have a very attractive Vaio laptop, and a death defyingly ugly DELL server, and a few other things I have laying about that I have forgotten about. More distressingly, especially given the context of my argument here, is that the bearer of my 3 darling children wants an iPad for them, and an iMac for her and we all know the direction of these kinds of discussions...

It turns your boys gay, sorry I meant "artistic"!

[Bunk]

FTFY

Fair enough, can't argue with that.

[Zoiderman]

Fair enough, can't argue with that.

I can see they look good, I was conned with the 3Gs and I thought it very poor; stayle over substance, especially compared to HTC etc.

But, for me, the main issue they don't do, what I need them to do. In my industry, Flex/Flash is used quite a bit, so anything I buy, has to be able to do certain things. There are other issues, but mainly, I don't think they're better.

[Bunk]

But, for me, the main issue they don't do, what I need them to do.

I had the same thing for a while. I was doing more .Net back then so it didn't make any sense to get a Mac. Now I'm doing less .Net and I have Windows 7 as a dual boot/virtual machine so I've got that covered. I also wanted to try some iPhone app development so the Mac suddenly became the more sensible option.

[Churchill]

I had the same thing for a while. I was doing more .Net back then so it didn't make any sense to get a Mac. Now I'm doing less .Net and I have Windows 7 as a dual boot/virtual machine so I've got that covered. I also wanted to try some iPhone app development so the Mac suddenly became the more sensible option.

Our next computer will be a MAC and I'll do the dual boot/VM thingy.