More Fun From the Psystards

June 20th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Good lords I just had an aneurysm. I just noticed via MacNN that the nim­rods over at Psystar are ship­ping “servers” with Leopard as an option. What sort of ram­pag­ing moron would actu­ally run a hack­in­tosh as a proper server? I can under­stand the impetu­ous for the aver­age free­tard to build a hack­in­tosh for per­sonal use. They’re cheap bas­tards, and I sup­pose there is a cer­tain enjoy­ment in the process of shoe-horning OS X onto unsup­ported hard­ware. But a fuck­ing 1U server? Quick ques­tion for any­one seri­ously con­sid­er­ing blow­ing a min­i­mum of $2,000 on one of these turds. Who, exactly, do you think is going to pro­vide sup­port for this abom­i­na­tion. I can guaran-fucking-tee it won’t be Apple. If I was a CIO and found one of these things sit­ting in my racks the shit-cannnings would hap­pen so fast that space-time itself would break.

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The Great iPhone Price Debate

June 20th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

I’m not going to be arsed to dig up any links to the ongo­ing debate over whether the iPhone 3G is or isn’t actu­ally cheaper, or a good deal. Instead I’m going to sum this up in sim­ple terms even the sim­ple­tons in the blo­gok­lein­bot­tle can understand:

If you already own an iPhone (2G) and don’t have a crit­i­cal need for aGPS or 3G speeds (assum­ing that you are in a mar­ket that sup­ports 3G). Don’t buy the iPhone 3G, it’s a bad deal.

If you don’t own an iPhone, or you have a cru­cial need for aGPS or 3G speed (assum­ing that you are in a mar­ket that sup­ports 3G). Buy the iPhone 3G, it’s a good deal.

There, are we all clear? Now go back to spec­u­lat­ing on el Jefe’s health; or what­ever it is you nerdlingers do when I’m not pay­ing attention.

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