Can someone tell me what this means?

On 11 Aug 2007, at 18:29, John Foust wrote: To be fair, you probably fancy a MacPro with EIGHT cores. I know I do!! From whom else could you get an 8-core desktop workstation? I doubt that it'd be very much cheaper! I remember bringing home my first SGI. It wasn't anything too amazing or collectable - an old Indigo that had been lingering in the CS department unused for some years. One of the postgrads had tried getting it fired up - I was an undergrad at the time - and I was visiting him in the lab when his supervisor came to chat to him abut something. I think my friend was a bit miffed that I offered fourty quid for it right under his nose!! When I got that workstation home I was *so* pleased with it. I wiped the dust off it with a damp cloth and stood back and admired it, then started taking it apart. (That old monkey curiosity, eh?) I was so impressed with how solid & well-made it was - each piece of FAR better quality than the commodity PC hardware I was familiar with (despite having paid ?115 for one of the first 56k PCI modems). When I open a Mac I feel the same sensation of quality workmanship that I do with old Unix workstations like SGIs & Suns. The screws in the base of iMacs are stainless steel allen bolts, and the mechanism of the lever which releases the side of my G5 is well-engineered, the panel fitting satisfyingly flush when you set it back in place. I don't feel Mac OS X to be entirely without flaws, but I do feel that Apple is continuing in a tradition of well-made Unix workstations, when those who needed computers were prepared to pay good money for them, and expected quality. Stroller.