Due to piles of work, some obligations and other general busyness during the last few weeks, I wasn’t able to write my editorial. But I’m back now baby!

As you may have noticed as a visitor to this website, Rosana and I are saving up money to buy a Mac. Rosana is currently in the lead with almost 400 euros, and I’m behind with my measly 14 Euros and 14 whole Euro cents. That isn’t a lot for someone who wants to buy a 21.5” iMac for over 1200 Simoleons, but I have my reasons for my negligence to feed the piggy bank (by the way, that pig on http://feedthepig.org is the creepiest pig I have ever seen in my life). It’s mostly because I don’t have a lot of disposable income right now. But that might change in the next few weeks, so stay tuned to my money meter thingy for some real action, involving an amount of money that changes...occasionally!

Of course you can also help me by donating some money. If you have some money left after the whole Haiti thing, your generosity would be greatly appreciated… [/butt kiss mode]

Anywho, let’s talk iMac for a minute.
You know, I think the latest models are the best looking iMacs ever. I mean, the original G3 ones looked great during the time, the G4’s were kinda cool (even though they pretty much looked like a table lamp), and the ‘iPod inspired’ G5’s didn’t look that bad at all. But I didn’t like the first aluminium ones. They just did not look right to me.

I didn’t feel that way when they were revealed for the first time. But that’s mainly because I rode on the wave of psychedness just like everybody else who sees a keynote done by Steve Jobs. Seriously, he is so good in announcing products, that he could make the entire audience cheer for a turd being ‘the next revolution’ from Apple (I guess he’d call that the iPoop. Yes, I know I’m terrible…). He must be doing witchcraft or something, I dunno.

Right, so after a while when I could take a look at those iMacs in a store, I just started noticing more and more things over time that I didn’t like about the design. Like the aluminium border around the screen…why? Why couldn’t they just extend the glass to the edge? And of course my biggest grudge: The chin. Yes, you know perfectly well what I’m talking about. It’s that big lump of aluminium sticking out on the bottom of the screen.
In this day and age, you’d expect that every high-tech personal computer company could hide every single hardware component behind a huge 24” screen. But nooo, not Apple. They need some space for the mighty Apple logo!

Fortunately, they changed the design last year. They’ve gotten rid of the ugly aluminum borders, and they’ve made the chin somewhat smaller as well. I still would’ve liked to see no chin at all like the cinema displays, but I guess you’ll just have to make compromises sometimes.

At least it’s better than the iPoop…