The new BRK-Demanded WoW iMac is here!

24” (1920 by 1200 pixels) widescreen flat panel
2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
6MB shared L2 cache at full processor speed
1066MHz frontside bus
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory
320GB Serial ATA 7200-rpm hard drive
Slot-loading 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n draft (specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
Built-in stereo speakers
Internal 24-watt digital amplifier
Headphone/optical digital audio output (minijack)
Audio line in/optical digital audio input (minijack)
Built-in microphone
Built-in iSight camera
One FireWire 400 port and one FireWire 800 port; 7 watts each
Total of five USB 2.0 ports: three ports on computer, two ports on keyboard
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
iLife ’08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)

$1949

Yes, you can get a faster CPU, more memory, or a bigger hard drive. But now we mortals can get a very modern video card in a Mac for under $2k. If Mrs BRK brings home the bam-bam this month, we’re gonna bogart her paycheck big-time and bring one of these babies home.

Just don’t tell her, capice?

The BRK Non-WoW Thought of the Day: Dr. Pepper has commemorative Indiana Jones cans. Dr. Pepper was established in 1885, which by remarkable coincidence is basically the same year that Dr. Jones was born. We wonder if the thriller “Ironman” will commemorate its lead actor, Robert Downey Jr. with a similar commemorative beverage, and if that beverage can be purchased by persons under the age of twenty-one in the US.

Loot Karma: We raided TK without DKP last night, as the SWAPS addon wasn’t working properly and the site that hosts it was wiped out by storms. Solarian dropped her hunter-boots last night, and even though all loot was being roll-decided, we passed. We have Boots of the Crimson Hawk which are basically the exact same thing as the drop, and we wanted another hunter to get some phat loot. As we said to The Egotistical Priest’s gang last night:

“Loot is fun. If we take your loot, we’re taking your fun. What kind of person would that make us?”

Size matters: What a difference a gun makes! Last time we took down Al’ar, we used our Ashtongue disguise and hated how we looked. But give us that Tuskbreaker gun and put our disguise on, and the new gun makes us look totally bad@ss. Yes, of course we forgot to screenshot it

Lunch: We’ve had spicy Kung Pao Chicken, two days in a row. We ask for spicy, we ask for hot, we get mild. Well, it least it’s better than the food poisoning that Chicago Uno’s of Merritt Island gave a bunch of our coworkers a week ago.

Movies: Thank you to everybody who wrote and expressed their pleasure with our Lurker Below movie. Yes, we are making more, but they take time. When we present a movie, it has to be showing the Right Things to Do. Take last night’s Solarian fight. We did everything right, but still died at the end when we got tossed in the air and blasted at the same time, resulting in us being dead before we even hit the ground. “How to Die with Solarian at 3%” is not a good hunter-guide movie, we think you’ll agree.