FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for January 02, 2014
January 01, 2014
January 03, 2014
Transcript:
Peter: What are you doing? Jason: Surfing the various ifruit rumor sites on the web. Next week is the big fruitworld computer ex and sometimes product announcements leak out early. Peter: This says future ifruits will sport self-cleaning keyboards. Jason: Naturally, a lot of these rumors are absurdly ridiculous. Peter: This one says their processors will finall yreach 1.5 GHZ. Jason: Cae in point...
chizzel almost 11 years ago
My truck has 185 horsepower
sbchamp almost 11 years ago
Idyl roomerz
ossiningaling almost 11 years ago
They had one computer for all of them. No point in thinking about upgrades.
Stephen Gilberg almost 11 years ago
Ah, the perils of temporary relevancy in comics.
Doctor11 almost 11 years ago
I’m sure Jason’s looking for something that will enable them to get rid of the iFruit and he’ll convince his mom to get the kind of computer HE wants so that he can play all of his favorite games on it basically 24/7.
Greg Johnston almost 11 years ago
These strips are ten years old; as such, the fall 2003 iMacs would be the most relevant – the original style iMacs had already been replaced a year and a half earlier by fall 2003 with the flatscreen “lamp-style” iMacs – which came in 1.0 and 1.25GHz flavours by that point with 17" screens. The older iFruit in Foxtrot had been around for years, and stayed on long, long after the Apple iMacs that inspired it had been discontinued. Apple Support – Identifying flat-screen iMacs
Greg Johnston almost 11 years ago
I undeerstood the joke perfectly, I was just adding context for why the rumour would have been relevant, rather than referring to specs for the several years older “iFruit” that Jason has been putting up for a long time already.