Archive for December 2nd, 2009

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Dec '09

December

   Posted by: lyle    in Cynicism, Festering Season, People, Photography

ScroogeIt seems like loads of people around us spent last weekend putting up all their fucking manky house decorations for the Festering Season. some of them really do have to be seen to be believed.

In particular, two houses on my regular commute have gone hysterically over the top. I’m going to have to stop off some time this week on the way home and see what I can do about getting a couple of photos.

The TV’s full of shitty ads about perfume, CDs, chocolates, and fucking scumshit bastard Iceland.

And to top it off I’ve just had a spam email of “Festive Offers from Tesco Credit Card”. Fuck off, you dirtbags.

Well hellooooo, December.

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Dec '09

Dell vs. Apple – the desktop version

   Posted by: lyle    in 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Geeky, Own Business, Work-related

Following on from yesterday’s post regarding the difference in price between Dell and Apple, I also ended up doing one between desktop machines. You know, just for the sheer fucking hell of it.

Similar plan – same specs where possible, same plan. Not bog-standard, not top-of-the-line, but mid-end on both models…

Dell Apple
Model Optiplex 360 iMac
Processor 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo 3.06Ghz Core 2 Duo
Memory (RAM) 4Gb 4Gb
Hard Disk 1Tb 1Tb
Monitor Size 22″ 21.5″
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD3450 (256Mb) ATI Radeon HD 4670 256MB
Keyboard Logitech Wireless Apple Wireless
Mouse Logitech Nano MX Revolution Apple Mighty Mouse
Price £895.35 inc VAT £1,199 inc VAT

Yep, think I know which one I’d go for…

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