Another one joins the reality distortion field

[fivemack]

I have ordered a minimac. And a nice flat-panel screen for it.

That is all.

Comments

[brrm.livejournal.com]

JOIN US. Oh wait, you just did.
Congratulations. :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It was so clear that those of my friends possessing Macintoshes also possessed clear and copious good taste, that I viewed acquiring one as the easiest route thereto.

I hope the Collective has attractive membership benefits; or at the very least that the circuitry embedded into my head will have little lights on which pulse as if they were breathing.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

You get a shiny new Guru with built in Reality Distortion Field :)
*considering joining the Collective too*

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Ooh cool, I hope you love it! Did you get one of Apple's incredibly expensive screens to go with it, or an ordinarily priced one? I don't understand why Apple didn't reintroduce a 17" screen given the Mini mac.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I got the cheapest digital-interfaced 17" flat-panel I could find, which was a UKP200 one from scan.co.uk. Made by Iiyama, who are a famous enough name that I'd hope it would be a good panel.

I wouldn't have bought a UKP300 shiny aluminium Apple flat-panel of the same size, so (making the arrogant assumption that I'm the target market for these things) I'm not sure it would have been sensible for Apple to bring out a small expensive screen for their small cheap computer.

It is, I suppose, a little odd to buy computer from one e-shop, monitor from another, and the connecting cable from yet a third; potential for delivery hassles on a day-devouring scale.