{"id":278,"date":"2003-05-23T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2003-05-23T09:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2003-05-23T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2003-05-23T09:27:30","slug":"tempted-by-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/278","title":{"rendered":"Tempted by the dark side."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if y&#8217;all remember me kvetching about Apple&#8217;s yawnworthy trend in desktop industrial design lately, but if you <i>do,<\/i> then you&#8217;ll understand why I got chills when I saw the new cases from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alienware.com\">Alienware<\/a>.  Not only are the desktop cases certifiably cool, but the <i>laptops<\/i> are swanky too.  Note the chameleon color option &#150; an <i>irridescent<\/i> laptop.  Wow.  Add to that the ability to tote around two batteries (a feature I&#8217;ve lamented ever since I made the jump from Kerouac, my PowerBook G3\/400 &#8220;Lombard&#8221;, to Gandalf, my PowerBook G4\/667).  This has me <i>seriously<\/i> considering buying a new machine sometime later this summer.   Mmmm.  Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne on an Alienware Area 51 laptop.  Mmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if y&#8217;all remember me kvetching about Apple&#8217;s yawnworthy trend in desktop industrial design lately, but if you do, then you&#8217;ll understand why I got chills when I saw the new cases from Alienware. Not only are the desktop cases certifiably cool, but the laptops are swanky too. Note the chameleon color option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-4u","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}