P.C vs Mac - Dylan's view

You may remember Apple's recent campaign to position Mac as the hipper, younger, more creative platform against the perceived frumpiness of the old P.C. As Mac users since 1992 this wasn't news to us but it's interesting to see where Mac and PC are positioned in the minds of the emerging generations. Our 12 year-old nephew Dylan has been saving for the best part of a year for a MacBook Pro already and expects to purchase said machine later this year. While Dylan was staying with us over Christmas he wrote this poem about the "fight" and we think it is rather cute...

Mac vs PC

by Dylan van Lier

An Apple had a punch-up,

With a Microsoft PC.

A Personal Computer,

And a white fruit from a tree.

The PC blasted fractions,

At the metal Powerbook.

The Mac replied with iTunes,

To make the PC’s speakers cook.

The Apple PhotoBoothed the Sun,

And put it on the screen.

The PC opened Webcam,

And reflected back the sheen.

Mac replaced it with widgets,

And times’d them by a ton.

The PC ran out of memory, and

Threw up a red icon.

The PC then surrendered,

And flew a white display.

The Apple danced around for joy,

And fell off the desk that day.

Poetic Justice

Ok, we know this is the second Huffer post in a row. And we know that we have been slack at posting on final deadline, but we just had to post this. Anyone who went to the Huffer show at ANZFW would have noticed a bunch of words on the runway. We did, but didn't have the chance to walk around reading them. So here, pasted on to an "11 foot six, black painted, hinged, then laminated timber" structure to "create art" is Dan Buckley's poem to celebrate "Fly", the Huffer collection which was shown. We think it is genius...