Powerbook G4 Titanium began his life on 1st September 2002. At that time he was one of the first generations of Apple's new 1 inch thick slim-line laptop computers; with a 20 gigabyte hard drive, 512 megabytes of RAM, a CD-RW/DVD-R disk drive, and the new Mac OSX Jaguar interface, he was considered of the frontrunners in technology and design at the time. G4 spent most of his time commuting between London and Cambridge, primarily writing essays, emails, playing music and surfing the internet for utter pointlessness.
In 2004 he travelled to Japan for the first time, where he met and married a local iPod. Perhaps due to a mixture of middle-age tiredness and the differences in voltage between Europe and Japan, G4's battery suffered decreased performance in late 2004 and in early 2005 the disk drive suffered a total failure, requiring a double transplant: a complicated operation which took one month. At first, G4's battery made a full recovery and for several months was able to continue writing a university dissertation on Japanese art in the 1970s, but in late 2005, shortly after moving permanently to Japan his battery failed without warning and he spent the subsequent months of his life on perment mains supply life support. Despite the poor condition of his health, the twilight months of G4's life were some of his most productive. He produced a wide range of photography in collaboration with Photoshop and was instrumental to the running of a Tokyo-based art listings website. On 19th July 2006, G4 fell into a coma and died of a hard disk aneurysm.
He is survived by his wife, iPod, and his only son, MacBook Pro.
2 comments:
may a offer my sincere condolences. it's great obituary. i'm trying to remember the name of the american artist, featured in the last whitney biennial, who writes obituaries for amrican living celebrity politicians, actors, musicians and frames them.
Is this the moo_swerve_crash incident you're referring to or have you managed to crash another car?!
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