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Long before the release of MacBook Air, John F. Kennedy ’40 said that “man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.” Oh, how man has fallen. “The Age of American Unreason,” Susan Jacoby’s latest effort, bemoans the dilution of American intellectual ambition and the crippling apathy that has settled in its place.Using an arsenal of historical analysis, anecdotal musings, and hard-nosed scorn, Jacoby deconstructs American culture to reveal the virus of anti-intellectualism that has penetrated to its core...
...launched into outer space on a rocket ship commanded by Björk, it might sound something like the Analog Girl. A 34-year-old Singaporean, Mei Wong has come far since she recorded her first melody on a cassette tape at age 7. Nowadays, she uses a MacBook Pro, a digital sound box, a set of toy xylophones and her voice to produce her own brand of futuristic electro-pop, and takes her low-key show - it often just involves her, a laptop and a microphone - to venues such as New York's Knitting Factory and Paris' avant-garde...
...practical front, the new Macbook is not only formidably heavy—at 6.8 pounds, it’s nearly as hefty as an AK-47 assault rifle—but also suffers from poor construction. Over the past few months, Lenovo, Asus, and many other laptop manufacturers have made durability their top concern. By contrast, Apple’s Macbooks, much like their organic counterparts, can’t survive a fall of even just a few inches. [see correction below...
CORRECTION: Wednesday’s comment “Bad Apples” said that the new Macbook is 6.8 pounds. While this is the weight for the 17-inch Macbook Pro, other models weigh considerably less. Furthermore, although some benchmarks do show that a similarly performing Dell costs half as much as the most expensive Mac, this is not as regular of a result as the article suggests. The Crimson regrets the error...
...writing this column while in my living room watching Gordon Ramsay's new reality-based series Kitchen Nightmares. My wife is not very happy with me. As we spend some time together each evening watching television, my trusty MacBook Pro sits only a few inches away from me, beckoning me to get online and open a web browser. In the past, we have enjoyed watching our favorite shows together, but now Steve Jobs' latest laptop wizardry threatens to come between...