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We went to IHOP one night, and like.. my friend got some lemons lol ):
What is it? It looks like a Metroid. Your battery was about to die, lol. How do they last on the Macbooks?Another desktop from my archive. I really like this one, if not for the dark humor behind it. Only the Science Team would feed one, because they have vapor for brains.
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What is it? It looks like a Metroid. Your battery was about to die, lol. How do they last on the Macbooks?
I've basically finished Metroid Fusion, but I'm still not in on the joke =/In order:
1) It is a Metroid. If you've played any of the Metroid games and got as far as the first area where they appear, you'll get the joke.
If you don't get it...Spoiler:Metroids are parasitic creatures that latch onto your head and suck out all of your life force, leaving your body a desecrated gray husk that disintegrates upon touch. The Science team thing that I said was in reference to a Metroid Prime Space Pirate log entry, where the Pirate entering the data commented on how he thought the Science Team (the people who devise all of their weaponry and armor) had "vapor for brains" because they thought they could tame the Metroids, despite twelve warriors getting killed by them. Pleasant.
2) Quite the contrary; my battery was 16 minutes away from being completely charged.
3) I can't say for a current-generation MacBook with one of those really big batteries, but my two-year old laptop lasts about 4 hours under normal use (not too good, not too bad). When virtualizing Windows, playing a 3D intensive game or using iTunes's visualizer feature, or using a CPU-intensive program, it drops to two to one-and-a-half hours. My battery has also endured a lot of power cycles, so the overall health isn't fantastic, but most of the time I hook it up to a 19" display and have it become a temporary desktop.
I've basically finished Metroid Fusion, but I'm still not in on the joke =/
Oh right, it's an older Macbook. I meant the Unibody era. Seriously looking at getting one at the end of the year.