A nice cup of rabies

...Ooookay. My new Mac came with an Apple-branded buffing cloth.

I will never snicker at people who use the "Mac == BMW" analogy ever again.

also, holy shit, second life actually runs at a usable framerate on this thing. wow, i could go get warcraft or something. that's be awesome hideous because i know it'd be like crack to me. hey stinkygoat, has anyone gotten the beta of space giraffe running under crossover games? now that really would be awesome.

I've been saying it's about time to upgrade my machine, when I have funds.

Apple announced that their next wave of machines will be Intel-powered rather than Power PC.

"AAAGH!" people cry. "My brand new Mac is insta-obsolete!" Despite the fact that they have an emulation layer planned, and a fat binary mode, and all that good stuff to ease the transition. "I have to unload it NOW because it's OBSOLETE!"

Maybe it's time to start watching prices of used Macs drop like a rock. And buy one. Sure, man, I'll be happy to take your brand new fifteen-inch deluxe Powerbook off your hands for half of what it was when it was new a few weeks ago. It's got no future. Yep. Sucks, doesn't it? Resale value's shot because who wants to buy a machine that's about to go through an architecture shift?

It'd still be faster than my dual-450 by a long shot! And more portable. And probably good to run new releases of software for at least a year or two into the time when all new Macs are Intel. That's targeted for the end of 2007, and there's a lot of PowerPC Macs out there right now to buy tools for...

A few thoughts while reading the giant, ultra-geeky Ars Technica review of OSX 10.4.

Yay! At long last! Finder windows in OSX 10.4 show changes the instant they happen! I miss this from OS9 at least once a week.

I really hate that the new "Spotlight" search thing uses apple-space as a shortcut, though. This will make me and every graphics type grumble: apple-space is the HAND TOOL ZOOM TOOL, damnit. Hold it down and drag around in your Photoshop or Illustrator document - or most graphics tools I've encountered - and the cursor becomes a hand magnifier, and you can navigate the document quickly. The suspicion is that Spotlight picked up this summon key from tools like Launchbar and Quicksilver, which also use apple-space by default - thankfully, Launchbar (I still use it, despite Quicksilver apparently being what the Hip Kids use these days. I have LB well-trained...) let me change it to apple-esc, which conflicts with nothing, and pleasantly reuses the old reflex I had on the Amiga for amiga-esc to launch a shell.

Yes, I'm a geek sometimes.

Earlier tonight I drew blasphemy. Two different strains of blasphemy, both of which feel like they really want to be quick and dirty show bibles. Well, the second one kinda wants to be a comic book as much as a show. Ashy gets much blame for the development of both.

(Okay, my hand knows the key sequence for 'dragging hand' and 'magnifier', but my brain doesn't. Anyway. My main point is, so much for "Macs are only for graphics!" if a standardish graphics meta-key like this is stepped on by a new OS feature.)