Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

["Phil Abel" <phil_nonospam_abel@nonospam_prodigy_nonospam.net>]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who watches the G5 commercials and has to do a
double take because apple.com/G5 looks a lot like apple.com/GS :)

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Remember back in 1983-1984.  Steve Jobs at
> Apple and his obsession with the anti-IBM
> crusade.  Remeber the 1984 commercial with
> the hammer being thrown at "Big Brother" and
> the intro of the Mac.
>
> Remember when Jobs pitted the Mac division
> against the Apple II division because he felt
> the Apple II represented the old school of
> thought like IBM.
>
> Now it is 2003 and things have turned come
> back full circle.  Now IBM is the savior of
> Apple.  Funny how in the latest issue of PC
> Magazine is a two page advertisement for
> the G5 Mac extolling the virtues of the G5,
> bragging about how IBM designed it based
> on their Power4 architecture.
>
> Hmm.  Now IBM is the good guy.
>
> Also, the claim that the G5 is the first PC
> 64-bit processor is also wrong.  That title
> belongs to AMD's Opteron chip which was
> released in April, several months ahead of
> the G5.