― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Agreed. My solution was to buy a g4 tower on eBay. I think there's a sweet spot in price/performance right now from the "Digital Audio" models up to the early Mirrored Drive Door g4s. Unless you're doing really processor-intensive stuff, they should be snappy for a few years still. The last batch of g4 towers are still overpriced on ebay, though.
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― banana face (banana face), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
AppleCare almost pays for itself in resale value for laptops even if you never need them to replace the screen or anything.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/cs2.ars
seems to suggest CS2 runs as fast or faster than CS1 on same hardware
― mei (mei), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― banana face (banana face), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
What a RACKET! I HATE APPLE!
(are there any other independent applecare-type insurance plans that i can look at or is that it?)
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I HATE ADAM
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Listen to what I am going to say very carefully: I. Poured. Beer. Into. My. Powerbook!
And Renter's Insurance paid for a whole new one WITHOUT raising the premium! Everybody - Renter's insurance WORKS! It is good! I could kiss them!
So maybe I don't need Applecare anyway.
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
This is not so annoying (since after the first time you turn off energy saver), but what's wonderful is that Apple's vaunted support site (that the tech support guy from India told me about several times while on the phone) doesn't mention a goddamned thing about the process.back to the beginning
I check my ebay auctions, go to take a shower after work, come back and it's frozen in sleep. Fuck around with everything I know for a while (hold in the power button, hold in the power button a little longer, unplug it, unplug it and leave it out a while), nada. Spend more time looking on their support site for hints: nada. Finally call tech support, sit on hold for 15 minutes, spend time going through all the processes I've already gone through (and told him about) before he decides to tell me how to reset the PMU. Thanks buddy, could have saved yourself some time there.
It seems to be working fine, I can put it to sleep and wake it just fine. Leave it on, go to the store, come back: dead. So now it's just energy saver fucking up. Reset it, call tech support, sit for 15 more minutes, rudely interrupt the surfer dude who answers when he wants me to go through the steps again. His big suggestion (guess we're off-script now) is that I need to go in and turn off the setting that sleeps hard drives whenever possible.I get kind of pissed because I'm not a techie and I know that's unrelated - that setting is for them to sleep when they computer is working NOT WHEN IT'S GOING TO SLEEP COMPLETELY.
So I tell him I'll do that, but it's not going to work, so what do I do next? He mumbles for a while about turning off energy saver completely and I get a little pissy - I'm not paying $2300 for a desktop so I can cripple one of its features a week after it arrives. How do I make the damn thing work? He doesn't know and says something about the power supply. I cut him off and ask if I need to take it to an Apple Store, he says yeah, I hang up.
I'm sure that Dell's and HP's (etc.) customer service is no better, but I bought an Apple because it's streamlined, efficient, easy, etc. I expect that premium I paid to go for tech support, too. I shouldn't have to burn a Saturday driving to Dallas because they couldn't bump me up to someone with an idea how to solve the problem.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.tuaw.com/
― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link
They have a script they won't deviate from, and they're happy to give/force you into trying anything to get you off the line, even if you've tried it before, so that when you call back (when, not if) you speak to someone else.
These are just as bad:
PC WorldPipex InternetBT Business Dial Up...
― mei (mei), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link
90% of my contact with Indian people is now them lying about their name as they parrot an unhelpful script at me, and it's usually when I'm annoyed to start with cos some equipment or process has gone wrong!
― mei (mei), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Silas Althor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― silas althor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― silas althor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― silas althor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Silas Althor, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link