True geeks will love every bit of this clip that suffixed a recent episode of the Simpsons (read the transcript):

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Amber and Leo featured this video on their audio podcast net@nite. This music video is based on the original iPhone instruction video and has been lip-synced wonderfully. It’s not my kind of music, but still, a brilliant production and a must-watch.

I wasn’t around to follow the Jobs’ 90 minute keynote, but luckily there were other people present to shrink it all down into a 60-second rundown. It’s a marketing-diluted version to bring you up to speed without all the unnecessary superlatives. A few examples used by Steve himself: extra-ordinary, incredible, tremendous, amazing, unprecedented, great, revolutionary, unbelievable, most successful ever.

I’m not a Mac-user, but OSX does have the tendency to intrigue me lately. I came across an article that discussed the new version of Office (2008) for the Mac. It’s funny how Office 2007 and Office 2008 are so closely related, yet can look so differently. Word and Excel 2008, side by side with they Windows counterparts.

(Word 2007 vs. Word 2008)

(Excel 2007 vs. Excel 2008)

This morning, as I peeked onto the Digg Homepage, I noticed a post to PCMag.com’s review of OS X Leopard. At first, I wasn’t tempted to actually read the article. This feeling was mainly caused by the barren quality of comments (one would have to be a heretic Apple devotee to risk stating an opinion in there), but after some thoughtful seconds, I dove into it anyway.
Apart from the fact that the write-up is preceded by a “Buy here”-box, it’s a biased review and pretty Apple-centric. It just contains too many superlatives to be objectively credible.

Besides, why isn’t anyone bashing Apple for delivering their OS late, integrating too much eye candy, leaving the “secret feature” out (not sure there ever was one) and releasing a product in beta-like state. No-one? Y’all blamed Microsoft for the same things, didn’t you..?

The bottom line is Leopard isn’t good enough for any habituous Windows user to make the switch. If anything, the sleek looking hardware would be the only thing that could convince me. OS X is solid, but so is Vista. Do the math:

1 billion Windows users vs. 25 million Mac users

To me the 4.5 rating is ‘over-rated’.