Apple's new laptops are a dog says Jobs

APPLE'S spiritual and temporal leader Steve Jobs' latest comments about his outfit's new range of lap-tops have failed to cross the pacific divide.

Jobs said that the Intel Core Duo in the MacBook Pros was so 'bitchin' it blew away anything other suppliers could provide, including the Powerbook ones that Apple fanboys had been dying to defend for years.

Now, in the UK, to bitch about something is to nag. But if the word was taken literally it would mean a female dog. So was Jobs trying to tell us that the new chips were a bit of a dog, but at least they were better than the old ones they used to use?

Or was he saying that they were the dog's b*llocks? This is unlikely as a female dog is not equipped with such things. Did he mean that the chips made a lot of noise? Perhaps something like a whinging annoying hound, which nags at the back of your brain all day until you have to reach for something to kill the pain.

Speaking at MacWorld, Jobs admitted that Mac's transition to Intel-based processors was probably costing the company some hardware sales as customers wait for new models to hit the market. But he expressed confidence that the strategy will pay off for the company in the long run. "Intel has a great roadmap," Jobs told MacWorld.

This also strikes us as an odd thing to say. No one has ever really understood Intel's roadmap.

It is a bit like the IT industry's Gordian Knot which is not meant to be undone, it can only be hacked apart with a sword. Still it is not worth bitching about on a Friday afternoon.

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