The first few pages were already curling to the outside, slightly greasy from being opened and touched with just slightly sweaty fingertips too many times. The texture of the cover, now smooth, leathery, still soft, printed in more than four inks. So much information on the front, such a burst of typography and oversized color photographs, even though the model on the cover appears cool on the outside, yet really, really hot inside. So hot, in fact, that the front is only protected by a mesh of sorts, 35% air (inside info), one can almost sense the two large pulsating brains inside. Wow. Much more slender than the last model, cooler, much sexier, smarter, the smartest ever, most incredible ever to sit on the desk. Remember the commercials? Some dude just blown away, out of his house, through walls, past the kitchen, through the answering machine. And she, as cool as the next generation could only possibly be. Right on time, right here, ready for that ivy college lab, ready to crunch some serious numbers, all day, all night, so much smarter than all of us, and yet ready to play with us. Gosh, so hot, there are 9 different cooling zones in her...
I had to borrow the issue of MacWorld, read the story about the new G5, then about that new kitten: Panther, then about Quark6... This is really a wild new moment for all of us, isn't it? Geek Porn for all those speed hungry freaks who spend their dark days in basements, windowless offices, or maybe in places that only have three flimsy cubicle walls x1K. Oh, the dreams that this machine could bring them to a paradise of mindless 3D creation fun, DVD surround everything, all imaginable ports on the back, some important ones in the front. We imagine some Pixaresque fur in Maya being crunched by those two large looking G5 units, kept in mind by 8Gigs of Memory... wow
I remember the cover of an older issue of MacWorld, when there was an F15 in the picture and I think a girl, barely dressed, on an inflated raft, floating next to an incredibly fast Mac fx...
A few years later, me, barely holding on to my chair, friends visiting, to see my "wombat" a wickedly fast Quadra 800.
Why am I so excited about the G5 being shipped now? The fastest booting computer in my home still seems to be that Powerbook100, the most trusted one is my soft and lovely little PowerBook Pismo (G3/500/1GB of Ram)...
I guess I am just really excited for all of us. It is one thing to play that bombing game on the iPod (what scary stuff), but maybe now, finally, we will all be able to take that simulated tank through the streets of Santa Barbara?, just as some of us did, filled with excitement, when we tested out that big oven sized SiliconGraphics Reality Engine equipped machine, back in 1992?...
Boy, I really feel old now... my comparisons span too many years...
Wait, next year, next year will be even better!
(drooling.)