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By Senior Editor John H. Farr
I woke up from a nap feeling really guilty. As I walked over to my desk to check my email, it hit me: I'd dreamed I was responsible for putting Apple out of business! I haven't "killed" Apple, of course. Nobody has. But I have a confession to make: I bought my last desktop Mac at least four years ago and still don't need a new one. I can't afford one anyway, but that's beside the point: if enough of us admit the same, the jig is up. What I mean is, Apple, you goofed big-time. You built my Power Macintosh 8600 much too carefully and used much higher quality components than you needed to. In all the time I've had this thing, the only part that's bitten the dust was the orginal hard drive. That's it. This thing is bullet-proof and always has been. Nothing has fazed it, not bouncing around in the back of a pickup truck on several cross-country trips, not being dropped on the floor before my very eyes (while in its carton) by a clumsy techie, not swallowing bushels of cat hair, not living with Calcutta-like humidity and heat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, not daily assaults from New Mexico dust, not power outages, forced restarts, or a hundred other things I could name. Oh! Not even all those self-administered RAM, processor, and hard drive upgrades. This is ridiculous! What's more, it does everything I need with satisfying speed, even running OS 9.1. If not for curiosity and all the caterwauling techno-nazis urging me to hell for not possessing something newer to write about for Applelinks, I'd never spend a minute reading glossy advertising in the catalogs. What I mean is, sure, I'd take a new one in a heartbeat, but... Yes, of course I need to know from OS X. It's the future of Apple, if Apple has a future (and I think it does). But this thing works. I mostly write, build Web pages, play with pictures, and surf the Web. I never have a problem. I don't lack for anything, technologically speaking. Not a damn thing. Capitalism thrives on one-upsmanship and perpetual dissatisfaction with the status quo. Gee, I think I'm an enemy of the state! -- I mean the nation-state, of course, not poor New Mexico. There are some capitalists here, but they keep a nice low profile. In 1847 a mob cut off the territorial governor's head three blocks from where I'm sitting. Only two blocks distant, a guy named Manby, who may have been a capitalist of sorts, had his head cut off and stolen back in the '20s. I could tell you more, but be grateful that I haven't. There was recently a man who thought his infant son was actually the Devil, see, and while he was driving down the road, he took a knife and -- ooops! See what I mean? The point is that I'm already in the perfect place to be punished for my sins, if such a thing is really in the cards. Does not consuming things I hardly need make me a danger to society? Am I to be militarily tribunaled for questioning the engine of plutocracy? [knock-knock-knock!] Excuse me, there's someone at the door. "Yes? How old is my computer?! Uh..."
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