Hypocrisy or what?

Saturday.25.March.2006

Here’s an example of how people get away with being hypocritical:

How come so few people have made an issue over Steve Jobs’ misguiding Keynote speeches? Last year, upon launching the Mac mini, he boasted about its proper graphics cards, explaining how most budget PCs could not handle graphics-intensive applications because of their built-in graphics controllers.

And yet here he is, a year later, launching the Mac mini’s successor without even a passing explanation over its use of an onboard Intel graphics controller, which effectively steals 64Mb of your RAM. Mac OSX has never been particularly efficient with RAM, and here it’s made worse, because you cannot really function with 512MB when 64 of it is being siphoned off elsewhere. I’m sure that the onboard graphics controller isn’t that bad – Ars Technica thought it was above their expectations – and I realise that many Mac mini buyers don’t need the full power of Photoshop, but what pisses me off is the way he has made a total U-turn on his former boasts.

That, and the fact that a £929 iMac still only comes with 512Mb RAM as standard. How hard a little generosity be?

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