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MacBookPro on unemployed man's desk?
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02-09-2009, 01:34 PM
http://www.kansascity.com/438/story/1023937.html
Looks like he has spent all his money on computer equipment. Wonder if he is on this Forum? 
02-09-2009, 01:44 PM
A 60 year-old man has a laptop (not a Mac) a desktop & two (seemingly ancient) CRT monitors and you conclude he has spent all his money on computers?
02-09-2009, 01:46 PM
So if he bought them when he was employed and they are paid for he's supposed to put them out on the curb because he's unemployed ?
How about his clothes ? They should go , too ? It's a gradual process to living in the bus station. I suppose a nervous breakdown of some sort would be a shortcut. The majority of people keep trying, like he seems to be.
02-09-2009, 01:47 PM
You can get a really decent Dell laptop for something like $600. It's the Macs that are obscenely expensive.
I can't wait for the hackers to start loading OSX on a larger Dell laptop.
02-09-2009, 02:13 PM
On second look, that keyboard in front of the CRTs does appear to be an Apple keyboard.... maybe he bought it on Ebay for $500.
02-09-2009, 02:20 PM
The one thing I have found in this "economy" is that others don't want to buy your junk when they are worried about losing their own jobs. There are some deals to be had on Craigslist and eBay these days.
02-09-2009, 02:25 PM
He's 60...worked at a plant for 32 years (been out of work since May 2008) - married...they probably have some little nest egg, etc. (including an insurance settlement)...that they can obviously afford to live on whatever means they have right now. Great for them! Awesome...more time for the family and caring for the wife, as he says. Not sure what the point picking on this gentleman or pointing out the fact that he has computers?
It is a Dell laptop; however, as somebody did point out the keyboard by the old CRTs...the wallpaper is an OS X one included with the OS (not that he couldn't of downloaded it elsewhere though). "Capelle, 60, gets depressed and angry when he dwells on the loss of his job at a plant that manufactures boat motors. But he is often appreciative that he can now offer more help to his wife, who is recovering from knee surgery. He even found a silver lining to the June flood that ruined his basement, the red truck he loved and some of his video equipment. He received a $35,000 insurance settlement, which he has used to pay bills."
02-09-2009, 02:51 PM
no one pointed out the HDVideoPro magazine on his desk? Obviously, this guy has some other kind of thing going on...
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