APPLE BASHING Last night was fun and we stayed up until the early hours talking bollocks as usual. Later today I get to go back to Foyle's and mess around with the comics. The onto the travel agents to talk about Amtrak some more. We are having difficulty reserving the sleeper coaches we want for part of the trip. Headache. In other Mike related news, the geeks are out in force this week. I have had a pile of emails asking me for the EXACT specs on the new machine and I'm bored typing out the same replies so if you get hard or wet thinking about gigabytes and accelerated graphics ports then this post is for you. It's an Alienware Area 51 M Extreme with a Magnesium Alloy Chassis in Conspiracy Blue. CPU: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz, 3.20GHz (x2) Memory: 1024MB Hard Drives: 80.1GB Running Microsoft Windows XP Professional AGP: Mobility Radeon 9600 (128MB) with a 16.1" inch UltraXGA 1600x1200 LCD screen. And yes, I did get a free t shirt too. It's black. And for all the poor bastards still harking on about GayMacs I offer this quote from Macworld: "The PCs beat the Macs soundly." Alienware systems outperformed the Power Mac G5 systems in six out of seven head-to-head comparisons. You can read the whole sorry tale of prettyboy Apple machines getting their arses kicked here. I've said it before and I'll say it again - only buy a Mac if you want something pretty to light up a dank room. Mike is blogging to: Big Black