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A Love Letter to Apple


Five years ago, the Pentium 166Mhz was king - top of the line - and EDO RAM was its snivelling bastard syncophant. Today’s top machines exceed the 1 Gigahertz mark, and yet staple products like Microsoft Word, Quicktime, and of course Windows itself are just as prone to general flights of idiocy as they always were. Why is it that a six-times increase in speed never seems to result in a computer that performs six times as well? Read more »