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no no, @d@m just bought a new powerbook, but then a week later they came out with these ones; depending on where he bought it, he might be able to take it back and argue for an upgrade.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

oh shit adam i thought of you when i read the news!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago) link

my ibook's logic board died yet again (fourth time) a month ago, and after arguing for them to give me a brand new machine, i finally just agreed to have them repair mine. i sent it in and when i got it back, the fucker wouldn't turn on. after much cajoling apple finally conceded that it was a lemon and gave me a brand new ibook -- a g4 no less! the thing is amazing and i've never been so happy. holla!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

I'm leaning heavily toward getting an iBook, especially now that Yanc3y has proven that (after 4 hours) you can indeed get soulseek working on 'em.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry to be cynical and all, but there are several sites devoted almost solely to what's coming out soon (MacRumors, AppleInsider) - and all of them had good info well enough in advance that the laptops were being upgraded.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

Aaron, you could have asked! Though admittedly it took me far more than 4 hours.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

No, that's fine. Sadly, I just don't have the time to read such sites. BUT...I got a brand new Powerbook for free. And it's fucking great. So I can't really complain.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

but you could...

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

cheapest place to get 512 megs of ram for 12" G4 ibook -> GO!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

crucial.com?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

http://images.apple.com/imac/images/indextop20040831.jpg

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hark, is that the strains of Justin Currie I hear?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

do any UK ilxers have a UK spare G3 iBook power adapter that they could sell me? mine's busted.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The iGo juice from maplin is your friend.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link

how come?

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

$120?! there are reconditioned iBook chargers on ebay fr £29, I think I'll go with them.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

The yoyo power supply is a really crap design the grommets wear out very quickly. Ive been through five and gave up. Momus has a Madisonline one which is very good too.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oh baby it's great to have you back, I missed you so much, let's never argue again!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

This BOSE system for the iPod. It looks so nice, but why not just plug the iPod into a regular stereo?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

you won't get that BOSE-y midrange-y sound. I really like the bose sound.

― Tonight at ten (kenan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i bought an ibook this past sunday.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too! How do you like yours so far?

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I really like the bose sound.

Heathen!

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 23 September 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

kerry, i hate it. actually, i love the ibook, its OSX i loathe. like:

- even though i set firefox as my default browser, if i click on a link in my email, safari opens up. ?Q!?wefifowh!@~!#>

- why does everything have to be all big and icony? this shit looks like it was designed for idiots. is there any modification/plugin/etc that can make the interface look more like Classic?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

SO I went down to the apple store opening this morning. at half nine the queue stretched along regent street, down princes street, round hanover square, past vogue, down st george st to the church, back up st georges st and half way round hanover square. I figured I'd pop in during my lunch break.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

ALso rather intriguingly I was put in the awkward position of arguing against apple in a meeting friday morning.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"- why does everything have to be all big and icony? this shit looks like it was designed for idiots."

maria, that's what in the beginning the apple was for: idiots. just kidding.

what i HATE about OSX: i want to install imovie but i can't do it with ilife cause my version of itunes is too high or sth. so it refuses to do it. i downloaded it from direct connect but some of the thinsg (like title) don't work.

i recently discovered .mac. Expensive but oh so much fun.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"- why does everything have to be all big and icony? this shit looks like it was designed for idiots."

Apple by and large were about computing for the masses from simple kits to some of the first home computers with disk drives, colour and expansion slots, to the first successful gui.....

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link

windows xp is all big and icony, colourful and cartoony.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:54 (nineteen years ago) link

but still doesnt manage to look cool.

― :| (....), Saturday, 20 November 2004 10:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Get yourself some skins, for the Classic look. Try http://www.macthemes.net, http://www.interfacelift.com, http://www.unsanity.org (for Shapeshifter software). The new version of Shapeshifter allows you to use icons and change your desktop. Could be the thing you need to feel secure.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I must have missed something -- what came out today?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the opening of London's first Apple Store. Queues like that also greeted the Osaka Apple Store opening, which I was at in August.

System related grouses: I want to be able to view by date created in Open File boxes within programs. System 9 could do that, but OSX can't. I also want to have non-sticky text select. At the moment my text select is 'intelligent', ie it selects a whole word then a whole line, and it's very difficult to just place the cursor somewhere. Maybe this is a configuration thing, but I don't know how to switch that off.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the opening of London's first Apple Store.

Ah right, I didn't realize it had never been there before! (When you live very near one you get a bit spoiled.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 20 November 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Ed what were you arguing against apple for

― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 November 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

(everytime i see this thread revived i internally sigh and think about how much money i'm going to want to spend once i start reading)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

momus the text select thing always drives me crazy!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

SAN solution, Apple's is not released and I was arguing for this really cool SAN appliance.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Did I ever mention that this thread title always reminds me of the part in Portnoy's Complaint when Portnoy fucks an apple with the core scooped out?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

3 months of being a mac user, never going back

― Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-go-round? (ex machina), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

1 year, me too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Really? I think so, too. (It's been two years for me.) What do you like about it, Jon?

― Sanjay McDougal (jaymc), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

plus they gave me a really cool glowing pen, apple never gave me a cool glowing pen.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

What is this really cool appliance then, come on man

― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

actually to be quite frank even after selling all my friends on macs for years and making them thousands and thousands of dollars they've never given me one bit of schwag or even a decent amount of respect.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

www.onstor.com

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Does anyone know where there is a live update going on from the expo?

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.macintouch.com/mwsf2005products.html has hardware and software announcements. Jobs big show isn't going to be cast live. (You prob knew that)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Not an official Mac product, but I'm liking the look of this:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10548

(Other/better recommendations welcomed.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

http://mwsf.macnn.com/
http://www.appleinsider.com/

providing updates nothing new announced so far

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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