leopard satirizes the blue screen of death

November 26, 2007

Blue Screen of Death

i recently upgraded my mac book pro to the new mac os x leopard from the previous mac os x tiger and the first thing i noticed was how slick the new networking capabilities were. the second thing i noticed was that apple decided to use an old yellowing monitor with the blue screen of death appearing on it for the icon representing that you are connected to a pc. i immediately pulled one of my co-workers aside to show it off even though he didn’t understand nor care.

i used to build pc’s by the dozens and i despised mac’s. but the time came when i decided to switch to the darkside and i have never looked back. i fear the blue screen of death as should everyone and i thought the clever placement of the icon was awesome.

apple pointed out two things

pc’s are ugly
pc’s break

i did a little research and found out that quite a few people are butt hurt over the icon. not all of them could comment because they were busy trying to figure out the error code on their blue screen of death!

Blue Screen of Death