it's almost entertaining to see how excited the computer show hosts appear to be when they're hyping PCs. they're drunk on the PC kool aid.
it would be hilarious to see the same hosts get all excited about closeout Macs.
JOE: 1.25GHz! That's amazing Bob, that means a thousand clock cycles per second!
BOB: (uncomfortable facial expression, as if to say the last PC we had on was 3GHz) Umm yeah, 1GHz is amazing, it's 2004 and Apple's fourth generation of PowerPC chip architecture - that's what G-4 means - was introduced in 1999 and it's still making Pentiums look like snails!
J: Not only that, but this Power Mac ... yes POWER, that's what you're getting with this machine, it's power -- runs System 9 natively, as well as System Ten, or OS 'X.' It's really in a class by itself.
B: And what other computer on the market today has mirrors in front? You can check the emails you get from QVC.com AND take a look at what your hair and makeup look like without getting up from your desk!
[phones start ringing]
J: Who really needs more than 1.25GHz? Are you ever going to NEED even that much? You know that the average computer user only really uses a few megahertz. And 256MB is plenty of RAM. Bill Gates himself said nobody's ever going to need more than 640K. 256MB is FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more than 640K!!!!
B: Four hundred times, wow, and computer technology really isn't that different today than it was five years ago when the G4 first came out, or all those years before when Mr. Gates made that statement.
J: You really can check how your hair looks on this computer. Wow.
[phones ring again]