Bittersweet Asynchrony
While the controversy rages about Apple’s new hardware, Jason Kottke has no qualms about the MacBook Pro except for the lack of warning…
My display, while not as bright or large as the new MacBook Pro display, illuminated my wet cheeks and red, swollen eyes as my tears rained down on the backlit keyboard. An acrid smell rose up from inside the smooth metal machine as my salty tears joined with the electronics, joyfully releasing the electrons from their assigned silicon pathways to freely arc into forbidden areas of the computer and elsewhere, including, somewhat painfully, my hands.
(Kottke bought his PowerBook three weeks ago. Apple’s returns policy is good for two weeks. Ouch.)