Mark Morford just gushes over his new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. An excerpt:
You know it’s true. Apple has done more than perhaps any other mass-market consumer line on the planet to affect the look and feel of nearly every gizmo made today. This cannot be underestimated. It’s a George Bush world, after all, one that values sameness, mediocrity, intellectual and spiritual laziness. But merely rub your hand across the top of a MacBook or whip your thumb around the click wheel of an iPod and notice: Feel that throb? That’s your id saying mmmmmmm.
What? What’s that you say? Why yes, other tech companies have changed the world, too. Microsoft, for example. They invaded the global cube-farm and made everyone’s workday a bit more bloated and annoying and sad and just a little uglier, buggy as hell, frustrating, virusy and lonely and numbing. Truly, it has been quite an impressive accomplishment.
It is strange how much better even Windows seems on my Mac than it did on a PC. That’s not fair because the iMac has a larger monitor and is faster, but there is something else …