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    Apple goes all out to solve Rush Limbaugh's Mac problems...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by swarmer, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    http://valleywag.com/367139/steve-jobs-fixes-rush-limbaughs-bugs-grateful-host-tells-exactly-how

    I wonder if he'll be in any Apple ads. ;) ...Just teasing.

    Anyway, this part cracked me up:

    Four decked-out Mac Pros + Blu-Ray to handle his email needs....
     
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  2. Hawkshark

    Hawkshark Notebook Consultant

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    Its impressive isn't it what a famous name will do for another famous name? Its' like the principal at my old HighSchool... the District buy them a laptop of their choice... As the most competent tech at the school he was asking me for advice, and since i knew the man did nothing more than outlook, solitaire, word and IE i showed him a sweet nice thinkpad... he thought i was insulting his intelligence... So instead he ended up getting a 3 grand Alienware laptop which goes essentially unused as hes always in his office anyways with the desktop... it's a sad way for a gaming laptop to live it life... :(
     
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  3. bmwrob

    bmwrob Notebook Virtuoso

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    Four eight-core MacPros to check email! Now there's a good case of overkill. Any single MacPro used just to check email is way more machine than he needs.

    Wonder what he'd have to say if Obama or Clinton announced that they'd bought similar machines for the same simple purpose? LOL
     
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  4. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Thanks for posting that link but he's round the bend lol.
     
    mattireland, Mar 13, 2008
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    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    I know there's a moral in here somewhere... Oh yeah...

    When I first heard Rush was using a Mac, I immediately began to wonder...

    If somebody really stupid does something really smart does it make what they did stupid all of a sudden? No.

    But then, 8 cores for email. Hah! Too much machine thrown at too small a problem and my worry that Rush might grow a brain is put to rest.
     
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    Modly Warranty Voider

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    My boss listens to Rush every morning, and I'll tell you... it's annoying.

    I personally lean more republican, and I still can't stand this guy. He gives half the story most of the time so he can spin it, and mis-informs with a huge number of "facts" as well.

    The plus side though, when my boss quotes Rush, I'm often left able to tell him directly that he's an idiot.

    He's got good taste in computers though, I will say that.
     
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    mc511 Notebook Evangelist

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    Meet my favorite comedian Bill Maher.


    http://youtube.com/watch?v=hGmlGYw_ANI

    So just throw him back into his face and see what he does. (He might fire you but thats a chance you should take.)
     
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  8. thekaz

    thekaz Notebook Consultant

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    One can NEVER have enough "cores" :p
     
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    bmwrob Notebook Virtuoso

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    LOL

    Ok, put like that . . . maybe you're right.
     
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    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    Take a look at that mighty mouse sitting there next to all those cores. It has more cpu than what took our astronauts to the moon. No, not the cores. The mouse.

    I know Tim the tool man Tayler would say haw haw haw more cores, but 8 of them?

    Well, ok. I see it now. If you have one of those multiple personality disorders you can keep track of what all 8 of them cores are doing... :D
     
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  11. burningrave101

    burningrave101 Notebook Deity

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    Millions of children are starving in third world countries and even in America and Rush Limbaugh needs 4 Mac Pro's with 32 gigs of RAM so he can check his e-mail lol. May he be the sweeper of the streets we all walk on in the next life to come :D.
     
    burningrave101, Mar 15, 2008
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