[CUBE] Mac addiction (was: iDVD hack)

[George Pepper]

NASA, huh?... Greenbelt!!!... I just moved from Hyattsville, MD to 
Texas!... [I was working for FEMA, now I'm a FEMA Contractor]...

NASA uses Macs... Cool!... FEMA was PC-blue-screen-hell. LOL!...

Pep

On Friday, March 12, 2004, at 07:35  AM, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:

>     George Pepper wrote, inter alia:
>
> At 5:10 AM -0800 3/12/04, Cube List wrote:
>> [When was the last time you bought a brand-new Mac?... My
>> Cube, 15" TFT, and 23" HD Display were all refurbs I bought from the
>> Apple Store; Got the Xserve off of E-Bay, and the TiBook was used
>> through a vendor... Only my G3 500 dual-USB iBook, 5GB iPod, and
>> AirPort BS were bought new, and the AirPort was a close-out deal when
>> the Extreme version came out]...
>
>     Well, those of use with a less severe habit, and who only have one 
> machine at a time, can sometimes afford a brand-new machine. ;-)
>
>     Though I confess to having a serial habit: Apple IIgs -> Mac IIvx 
> -> PowerMac 7100 -> PowerCenter Pro 210 -> B&W G3 350 -> Dual 1 GHz 
> MDD G4. Now at work, we have everything from Cubes to G5's.... which 
> may be what drives my home habit.
>
>     As for iDVD support, while I'm certain Apple gets a slightly 
> higher margin off the sale of SuperDrive-equipped machines, their main 
> concern is support: how many calls will they get from irate customers 
> if they --- or the third party vendors ---  claim iDVD will be 
> supported on every after-market mechanism from now on?
>
> 						Joe Gurman
> -- 
> "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
>                                                             - Douglas 
> Adams, 1952 - 2001
>
> Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
> Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
>
>
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