MLB Baseball’s Barry Bonds uses Apple PowerBook, iPhoto, iDVD to mark daughter’s graduation

“The highlight of my week was my daughter, Shikari, graduating eighth grade and going into high school. She looked so beautiful in her pink dress. I filmed the graduation and took many pictures. It was such a great day for a father to see his daughter grow up and achieve one of many accomplishments in her early life. After the ceremony, when I got home, I downloaded the pictures to my G4 laptop, prepared the photos in PhotoShop and created a photo album in iPhoto for my mother, daughter and me. After that, I got a little creative and made a DVD with iDVD,” Barry Bonds writes in his online journal at BarryBonds.com.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Ahh, the beauty of the Apple Macintosh and iLife. It just works.

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20 Comments

  1. Windows user: not surprised you STILL do not get it.

    You do not need to have the MONEY of a Barry Bond to use successfully a Mac. You just need the average IQ of a baseball player.

    Does that make it easier now for you to get the message?

    PS
    I see lots of Windows Bond fans now gasping: “WOW, he has a Mac. Either he is stupid or maybe we are stupid. I never have been able to get a DVD movie with my PC with countless tries”

  2. I see most people with an IQ somewhat over the average IQ of a baseball player now sighing ‘yeah, yeah, so he’s got a Mac. Now, let us calculate the odds for: do they pay him for using it and mentioning it so blatantly in his blog?’

    Whoever thought of the ‘famous person endorses product’ concept must have gotten something right, even though I have to say that I use Macs DESPITE the fact that several very nasty people use them, too…

  3. ipodder: “I see lots of Windows Bond fans now gasping: “WOW, he has a Mac. Either he is stupid or maybe we are stupid. I never have been able to get a DVD movie with my PC with countless tries””

    Uh…I see lots of Windows Bond fans not even caring what computer he uses.
    ipodder, do you buy stuff that a baseball player or other sports figure owns???

    Note on his website he is not listening to an ipod in his workout. You gonna´ sell your three now???

    And you really think he even writes his diary?

  4. Who friggin’ cares about meat-headed sports “stars”? I’m surprised he could hold the camera and stand still at the same time.

    Magic word: “Purpose” as in, “Professional athletes serve no useful purpose.”

  5. Entertainment is a purpose… I sometimes use my Mac for entertainment also. Bonds is not a ‘likeable’ figure in sports so I’m very wary of an Apple-Bonds connection.

  6. Wally: you give too much credit to Windows users IQ. It’s the majority of population. The sample forcibly has lots of idiots.

    Just statistics. 2% only in the world has Ph.D. Lots of Macs in faculties, not so many among Taco Bell workers.

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