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Market-research firm NPD Group dug into the numbers and determined that, on average, you'll spend up to $800 more on an Apple than you would on a comparable PC laptop. And in most cases, PCs come with more bells and whistles, like Blu-ray drives and more ports for special external hard drives and video connectors. So what kind of sucker would be willing to pay the Apple...
...cites Yellow Magic Orchestra and Aphex Twin as his influences, and his music correspondingly moves between the genres of 8-bit (electronic music that mimics the sounds of outdated computers and gaming consoles) and IDM ("intelligent dance music"). Live shows can be geeky affairs, with Sulumi hunched over a laptop, a hooded sweatshirt obscuring his chiseled cheekbones...
...definitely not the guy with the Heart ring, though. Let’s face it: They could have used one more Fire dude instead. At age 20, I still have the desire to incinerate agents of waste and entropy, but spend most of my time writing away at my laptop...
TIME: For someone who's never seen a performance of yours, it's kind of hard to visualize a guy with his laptop, inviting fans onto the stage or jumping into the crowd. Yeah [Laughs]. It's concert meets house party. For me, the people and the interactivity become the visuals. It's loosely a populist sort of idea; having a stage full of people is a lot more valuable than having a million dollars worth of lights. For people who want to come up and see me do a live collage on the laptop, they have visuals presented...
...because it was so glossy and sounds like a 10-year-old girl's band name. I just thought it would be the most inappropriate name for the music community that I was involved with. And some people really hated it. I was playing with some really serious academic laptop musician, and he'd play first and sit there and stare at his screen and people would stroke their chins and take notes. And then I get up there and I have a pre-recorded introduction and outfit changes. So yeah, a lot of people hated...