Laptops come in many shapes and sizes, and offer a range of features, but generally speaking gaming PCs tend to be beefy machines with the latest video cards, a load of memory and a large hard drive.
Example: beefier machines with rollers that give grass fields a "striping" effect, like a golf fairway.
These beefy blokes with machine guns being zombified never quite matches the fun of Rec – watching kids and the elderly getting it in the neck.
There are also beefy automated teller machines that sell the phone cards and money orders and can cash paychecks, pay bills and dispense cash.
They are lined up by a prison guard, a civilian policeman, and then, as part of some pathetic camp drill, they run in single file across a courtyard and into the camp canteen, under the watchful eye of a beefy policeman with a machine gun in a glass observation post.
So Microsoft's first challenge is to migrate as many of them as it can to the beefier Windows XP machines needed to tap into all the clever new features in Office 2003.
Your existing phones, laptops and Shadow's own device (pictured above) act as a thin client, a window into your virtual machine running on a beefy server in a data center near you.
The most stylish of these strange machines feature an aggressive stance, with two beefy wheels set at the front and a teardrop-shaped body that trails sleekly to a single rear wheel.
Even if you could fit the "beefy" — his preferred epithet for the GPU-packed servers and workstations to which machine learning models are restricted — specs into a phone, it would suck the battery dry in a minute.
But the now is the iMac Pro — a machine that will hold an allure for pros looking for a beefy piece of hardware that can handle demanding tasks from rendering to medical imaging to VR — but that also holds some clues for the future of all of Apple's Macs.
