Saturday, 26 June, 2004

iBook Blues Last week I was up at the new Apple Store at...Montgomery Mall. I was hoping to look at what Apple was flogging in the way of compatible home laserjets, my inkjet has died and I'm in an anti inkjet mood at the moment. It just seems that I'm buying cartridges for every 30 or 40 usable pages I print. They didn't have any there, just a long row of inkjet SUV's. I came home with the little pamphlet on the new line of iBook G4's all coming with yards of ram. Something I could conceivably run OSX.iii on and Safari and well, whatever else it does. They did look sweet. Latter as I was browsing about on my current iBook G3 running OSX.i.v I came across Mir's post on her bad customer service adventures in Appleland, which concluded with her avowal that her next notebook will not be an iBook. I felt bad because I like my ibook and under the principle of philosphical egoism I believe everybody should. Now I use a Dell running NT 2000 at work (I think everybody does) nice thing full size set up with a flat screen (the library loves us) and a USB 2.0 port right in the front of the CPU. In just the years since I've been with the library I've had every thing from a 286 running Dos 5.0 thru this on my desk. There were a few sketchy years in the windows 95 and 98 days before we were networked. I dutifully learned the microsoft way [ctrl alt del] and pressed on. When It came to spending my own money though I always bought Mac's I've had three so far. One has died of old age - the Mac plus- CRT, but I've been happy. Of course I never had byzantine phone-foosball customer service jack me for for a warranty on product I didn't have. I didn't extend the warranty on this thing last summer when it hit the one year mark. It had never showed any signs of misbehaving so I didn't bother. On the other hand I'm a man with a dead printer sans warranty, so what do I know? Then there's the iPod - the one with the bad hard drive that eats the song library from the inside, but I haven't achieved the emotional distance to talk about that yet. 11:46:44 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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