You & Your Dream Mac: A Contest
by admin
It’s the first full day of fall, and having just endured a long and mostly awful stretch of summer, that’s exciting news for me. Too bad it’s still 86 degrees outside.
Still—the first day of fall is certainly cause for celebration, so let’s kick it off right with a contest. Sound good? Good.
The contest is simple: tell us about your dream Mac. Before you rattle off about dreams of 3TB hard drives and a bajillion GB of RAM, let’s take a minute to get a little more creative. Try and think of something outlandish that you wish your Mac could do.
For example, my dream Mac would most likely sound a little like the following:
-Made of pure gold
-Coffee Maker
-Infinite storage
-ABBA sounds instead of the lame stock robot sounds
-Magical powers of infinite storage
-The ability to teleport? Maybe?
-Fruit roll-ups would roll out of the super drive slot.
-And while we’re at it, the back would be a crepe maker to satisfy my penchant for European cuisine.
I could go on, but I won’t because I want to hear what you would put in your wild, magical, glorious dream Mac. The most creative answer gets a Simply Mac shirt and a brand spankin’ new pair of Nixon “The Wire” headphones as seen below:
So get crackin’ and get creative. Beautiful hand-drawn portraits (preferably drawn in Paint) are definitely welcome. I’ll even link you to a Mac version of Paint in case you really take that seriously. And I hope you do. Of course, portraits are definitely not necessary, but if you should feel so inclined, we will accept.
Share away in the comments below! And the contest ends Monday at 10am, so you’ve got all weekend to concoct your Mac masterpiece.
Good luck!
My dream mac would be sick. It’d have all of this:
- Built-in shower feature
- Case made of 100% real leather
- Minority Report-esque hand-manipulation input
- Advanced Smell-o-vision features
My dream mac would have 3 extraordinary abilities,which would have such an impact on, not only my life, but the human civilization as we know it. These abilities would make the moon landing seem like a cheap hollywood production put together on a closed sound stage. They would make today’s internet experience seem like a big fat book full of yellow and white tissue pages categorized in some kind of semi-logical order which may or may not give you the information you’re looking for. The abilities of my dream mac would set the world on a course which, even given the possibility of infinite alternate universes, would bring all realities to a finite point of peace, prosperity, and harmony to the likes of which no beauty pageant contestant has EVER imagined! Those abilities are….oops, ran out of room.
Honestly? Well, you asked for it ;]
Mac Ultimate
* Uranium-coated keyboard
* Diamond-infused display and casing
* Smaller than a grain of rice
* Capable of infusing with your vision (Capable of producing images in your own freaking eyes)
* Runs off your own bio energy
* Can do your math homework
Total: Unknown
Someday!
- Scott
My dream Mac would be a placemat-styled device that rolls out. The display would be holographic above it, and would use touch and gestures to control. (Keyboard and mouse optional, but included.) It would be completely solar powered. It could also double up as a photography studio light. (Thanks to holograms.) It would also have a built in replicator, so that when you “print” a recipe from the internet, it makes it and lets you taste it. It would also be able to run Windows apps, while blocking viruses. Total cost: $99. Welcome to the year 2132.
My Dream Mac would have the following.
*Made of semi transparent light refracting material with a slight futuristic blue glow. (just enough to look cool)
*A new 3 dimensional circuit cube that is powerful enough to help me with my design and give opinions
*Everything wireless including my displays and hard drives
*Would only weigh 1 pound
*The ability to be a second employee and work 24 hours a day without pay
*The ability to print in 3D anything food I found on the internet and taste better then organic
*Download drinkable coffee on those hard night along with having emotional sympathy for being grumpy on long nights.
*The ability to bargain with Apple so that I can afford all of the other awesome Apple products
*It can see 24 hours in the future so I can REALLY know if I’ll finish that project.
*Have a flexible screen that can be adjusted to any size at the same HD resolution
*A Mac Pro that has robotic and arms so it can carry itself including the screens, mouse and keyboard, when I need it somewhere else (hate carrying that heavy thing! LOL)
*Audible warning system when the mother-in-law calls or comes over
*A project beamer that would send any hardcopy of a project instantly to a client without using the mail system
*When I play 3D games, I could actually go into the game for ultimate realism as long as I was in “GOD” mode of course.
*The ability to talk to the past. For example, I could talk to my grandparents or listen to phone calls from 1934. LOL
*The ability to invent new things like free energy so I can be rich and escape the economy.
*Last but not least, the ability to see into the paranormal world.
All I want is a REAL quad core MacBook Pro with better multi touch support and INSANE battery life (12+hours of real world usage)
My dream Mac would
Attach to your wrist
Where it would sense keystrokes by the change of light when you “air type”
Would have an gyroscope so that no matter how you hold your arm, the 3d projector image on the wall will always be facing the right way,
It will have the ability to read your thoughts so you could easily control the mouse, and have the ability to telepathically have conversations with others.
My dream Mac(s) would be the ones I could provide for my two sons in college. Son #1 is a year away from graduating and has been functioning on my old MacBook bought in 2004 that both boys shared through high school! Yes, it’s still chugging along! Son #2 is without a computer as it’s not in our budget right now. Me? I’m still lovin’ my second MacBook bought when I handed down the first one to the boys! What will these Macs do… Fuel the minds of two incredible young men working to make their mark on the world!
My dream macbook would come in the shape of a house.
Vulcanized rubber interior with a titanium shell and foundation for weatherproofing and durability through natural disaster.
All appliances are in fact downloadable programs and apps that arise out of counter tops, floors, and walls.
Everything in my Macbook: Home is controlled by touch and voice command…command i-tunes to play any song or playlist; turn the shower on just by asking and adjust the temperature by requesting it in Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Garageband literally becomes a band in your garage. You create your virtual band-mates and rock out all night, recording your sessions. No more flaky drummers.
Everything can of course by connected through your iphone…bringing a hot date home? Just let your Macbook: Home know and it will prepare your pad with the appropriate music and mood, in addition to cleaning dog feces and dirty sox off the floor.
The entire thing is powered by oxygen and can be compacted to a portable, classic Macbook format.
All this for just 1000 US bones, because it’s the future and that’s just how it is.
Yeah that’s right. I spelled it “sox”
the mac only needs one thing to be perfect…
an i-vagina
My dream Mac would be built for my video projects: A 12-core Mac Pro with 32 GB of Ram, a Mac Pro Raid Card, 4 TB of hard drive, a Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, two 27-inch cinema displays, and loaded with the latest versions of Adobe CS5 Master Collection and Final Cut Pro Studio.
Oh wait, I already have that! Who could ask for more?!
It would read my mind, draw out my creativity and making my designs become more fluid and streamlined. I would never lose my creativity, it would always sync in with me and know my every thought as I: draw. create. think. dream. scan. paint. and be in sync.
It would be platinum color, a screen that is so wide, that everything becomes bright, vivid, and slimlined. Yet, why not add some bling bling. That there are little diamonds on the sides or on the bottom so it sprinkles and winks at me, saying, “HIGH FIVE! YOU ARE ROCKIN’ THE DESIGNS!
Plus, I could take breaks and it would automatically bring up my favorite movie, tv show, or the favorite tunes with a little bit of chocolate served at my finger tips. Now if that’s not a mac after a girls heart, then what would be? Bling. Design. Sync. Creative. Artist. It’s Simply a Mac!
My dream Mac? Well, for those of you with weak constitutions, do not read any further.
First, it would be so intuitive it would transfer files the way my brain transfers thoughts across synapses.
Next, it would be pure crystal and totally see through. In fact, it would be closer to superman’s fortress of solitude than a computer.
If would also quote lines from Gandalf as email comes in: “YOU…SHALL NOT…PASS!!!”
Finally, it would have the entire catalogues of Johnny Cash, Metallica, Chopin, and Ernie and Bert sing the alphabet embedded in my brain for instant recall.
That’s my perfect Mac.
(2) 30″ min. cinema displays with touch screen and Voice controls
My dream mac would have a signal that connected with my brain for the ability to read my thoughts and load the music, pictures, websites, or programs i wanted. so i could run any program without ever touching a button. also the laptop would be scratch resistant. There would also be a signal that could search around for any movie you wanted to see, find it, and play it on your mac on demand. oh and it would stock a limitless supply of Reeses.
My dream Mac would make bacon and dispense Mountain Dew. Oh, and it would get “snappier” with every update.
Hmmm…my dream mac:
- Would Include a lot of the cool features found in the Ironman movies (ie, the hologram abilities)
- Would be ultra portable. as in, it changes from the size of an iPhone to the size of an iMach and back.
- Touchscreen, of course.
- Include the ability to control it with my mind. Sometimes my hands are tired…
- The ability to be its own desk…and padded chair.
- The ability to make me a grilled cheese sandwich upon command.
- The ability to create whatever I am thinking in my mind (ie: if think a song, it creates the song in garageband)
- The ability to produce clones of Steve Jobs.
- Would be as awesome as the computers in Star Trek.
- Could do anything that the Matrix can do. But better.
Not too much to ask, right?