On the first day of
Christmas My Truelove gave to me . . .
IT is not easy being a
hipster. It seems you have to get rid of your desktop computer or laptop
because basically they just don’t cut it in Hiptown.
A relative recently decided
to become a hipster. I said a beard did not suit but my sister said hers did
suit her. She was now far more respected among her not-quite-inner-city clique,
she said.
I really want to have
respect for hipster cool so I need to hide my HP all-in-one or convince my
friends I use it ironically. The problem is I love my HP so I am not here to
bury it as I should. I’m here to praise it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is the
latest techdroid to stand over the PC to perform the last rites.
Cook recently flew to London for the launch of the iPad Pro and to announce the Death of the PC.
Check out the iPad with retina display: Apple of your eye?
"I think if you're
looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC any more?” Cook said.
Sitting in my computer
room at home, I put up my hand to answer but Cook’s iPad must have not received
the image. “No really, why would you buy one?" Cook emphasised
Embarrassed I snuck down
my hand. Cook is way more famous than I, probably more famous than you, too. And
he knows way more about computers than I, maybe even more than you do.
So, even though I knew he was 133.34% wrong about the Death of the PC, I lacked the courage to
stand up to him while he was spruiking in London. "Yes, the iPad Pro is a
replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people,” he declared as
I fell silent.
“They will start using it (the latest iPad) and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones."
So you are telling me, Mr
Cook, your iPhone and your iPad are making my .HP 23in- all-in-one, with Bang
& Olufsen speakers,obsolete. I don’t think so.
I am reading a novel, two pages, side by side as readers have been doing for centuries, only across my 23-in screen. And you’re saying my reading would be just as pleasurable on your 12.9in iPad, Mr Cook? I don’t think so.
Or watching one of my
favourite films noir, Detour perhaps, on full screen with the bass-driven
B&O speakers throbbing along to the action. I can do that on a iPhone? I
don’t think so. Mr Cook.
Now I’m not much of a
gamer but I doubt you can convince those that are the PC is dead.
No, Mr Cook, mark my
words. I’ll say it again. Mark my words in twain just to show how serious I am.
Mr Cook, your report of the death of the PC was an exaggeration.
Here is our song. It is an
oldie just to show shiny new baubles are always different but not always
better for certain tasks of enjoyment.
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