Friday, March 03, 2006

Penny-Arcade Guys Get Macs!

That's right folks; Tycho and Gabe, creators of the wildly popular and gamer-oriented webcomic Penny-Arcade, have both purchased computers from Apple. Gabe's MacBook Pro (I still think that's a dumb name) hasn't shipped yet, but Tycho has been using his recently-arrived Intel iMac, and has all manner of good things to say about it:

I've used my own Mac for every computing task this week. What I have ascertained is not that PCs as we know them lack good design, but that PCs as we know them have hardly any design to speak of. I'm not trying to be insulting. Use a Mac for a week, and we'll talk again.

(mocking snarkiness follows...)

To my PC-loyal friends: What now, guys?
We are toppling your monuments, your idols, your bastions of power... and comedic sarcasm. People are beginning to see - There's a better way! (And unlike the current Democratic Party, we actually know what we're talking about when we say that!) Resistance is futile. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. With drop shadows, and translucency!

4 comments:

Will said...

Hey Hanley, let's go play some CS!

Oh wait...

Mike Hanley said...

Nice. Hence the coolness of Intel Macs. Dual-booting, anyone? (Not working with XP yet, but will be by the time I can afford to buy one...)

Mike said...

We worship no false idols...d

http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20021126

Drkdstryer said...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/12

And let us not forget the MANY movie on switching to Apple, and how bad it turned out for people!