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[robot_god]

Alternative title:  good Dartmoor tin

[Victoria Waterfield]

I imagine it would go quite nicely with his bus.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Stuff like this is one of the many reasons I stick with mac. Economists have a concept called searching costs. Its the cost of time and energy and money involved with trying to pull of a transaction. The searching costs of finding a non-mac are way high, theres all these crazy computers with prices ranging from like $400-4000 and I cant bear to spend the time looking into making a wise decision between them. Meanwhile Apple is a brand I trust and they only have a handful of models to choose from. "I want a laptop - Macbook or Macbook Pro - I want the best one - Mac book Pro - Purchase - I also want to run windows - Install bootcamp and windows."

[HudsonVC]

This strip (one of my favorites in a while) is positively gerrymandered with alternate thread titles:

A sturdy little fellow, full of zip and dash
Ready to put the tobasco on any task
Chaps and lads from history
The 2008 Shorvis-Bishopthorpe Envaliant III
Soberly cased in good Dartmoor tin
A stout little punter, he's also a bit of a boffin
Finely crafted men's computing

I once convinced a friend of mine that "putting your cube in the moneytelly" was actual British slang for using an ATM.

[Doc]

I want a finely crafted men's computer. All finished in brass, all fingerless leather computing gloves.

[MrCB]

I want a finely crafted men's computer. All finished in brass, all fingerless leather computing gloves.

Would it resemble something like this or perhaps this?

[Doc]

The first one doesn't seem to be working but I think I have had wet dreams about that second one before. That is exactly what I would like in a computer.

[dejavroom]

What, no extra switches under the dash for those spiriting two fingers of Laphroaig?

[colmore]

So how much do you think it would be to have someone make a brass body for an old iBook?  I am single and have poor priorities.

[pmcd9]

That computer of Cornelius' sounds like something Paul Harvey would advertise.

[dejavroom]

colmore: Seriously? You're into this? I know a guy, we can make it happen.

[wombat]

Clearly I've been going about looking for a new laptop in totally the wrong way.

[MrCB]

So how much do you think it would be to have someone make a brass body for an old iBook?  I am single and have poor priorities.

I also have been dreaming of a similar thing.

I want to get an Eee (once the new model comes out) and make it look all retro and steampunk. I'm wondering if I could coat the body with gold foil, or if I could paint it with a metallic brass paint and then varnish the hell out of it.

[jay-ell]

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

With brass faceplate tutorial. 

Your welcome. 

[MrCB]

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptop/steampunklaptop.htm

It would pretty funny to pull that out of your bag at a meeting, doubly so when you're sitting next to someone with with a Mac Air...