― Ed (dali), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link
My tech experience with Apple has been sensational. A friend called me today to tell me that his mini iPod was replaced in less than five business days, and he also got the new generation mini in place of his old one that had died. No charge.
I've dealt with Dell and Gateway and their CSRs are no better than Apple's. HPs can blow me, they've sucked.
― don weiner, Sunday, 6 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
the desktop I have at work running XP has been up and alive for 2 years with barely any reboots. It does everything I want it to do, does it quickly, and I can navigate painlessly without ever touching the mouse if I feel like it.
I was raised on Apple and my first job was DTP on a Mac, followed by audio editing on a Mac, more DTP, and so on. OS 7+ had more than its share of problems and stupid quirks but the hardware was rock solid and at least its behavior was predictable.
Since getting my latest-edition powerbook I've put it through little more than I ever tried to do with my old OS
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link
...OS
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.
What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.
What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?
Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.
I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link
And then kind of ran away????
That was pretty funny.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.
Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.
Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.
I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Hold down the trackpad button on startup.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.
Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
massive xpost
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Font management/selection/preview is atrocious in OS X. I got Suitcase but all that does is move fonts into and out of your Font folder, rather than you going and doing it yourself. Uh alright thanks I guess.
You know what I've never understood about computers? Why should anyone have to "save" anything, ever? Why isn't it just all on there all the time? I spent 3 hours working on some document, you tool, you think I don't want to "save" it? I mean really now.
xpost: you could try shooting it.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Download Yasu, let it run everything.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.laptops4me.com/images/pict/SNY-TR3AP1_LG.jpg
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― just adam (nordicskilla), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, Tracer, I'm kind of hoping that this is a display issue somehow, not a computer-itself issue, but everything I'm reading indicates this is not the case. :(
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I didn't notice the all-white screen hassle upthread. Did you try booting into open firmware and reseting the NVRAM?
(cmd-opt-o-f on bootup, then type "reset-nvram" "set-defaults" "reset-all" )
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
so I can just walk into the apple store with this thing and someone will help me out?
― Allyzay, Monday, 14 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
tracer otm. i often have totally differing degrees of success w/customer service if i just take a different approach.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
I like a little glitz. The trouble with OS X is that it's not likely to be *your* glitz, just theirs, which is arrogant on Apple's part (shockah!). Like Tom says, you can't even change the system font. I don't much care for Lucida Grande, but guess what? Apple likes it, so I get to stare at it every day for several hours.
I do want my desktop to be prtyy though, since I spend so much time there. It's like my apartment -- in a way it's even more personal. I mean honestly, cooking and watching TV and sleeping, how glamorous does it need to be?
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw someone point out they could make this a good advert by playing it in reverse.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 20:05 (five days ago) link
Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 20:12 (five days ago) link
Marques Brownlee reviews the new iPad, says...it's an iPad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0MGehwWvE
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:12 (five days ago) link
Read max had a good piece on that guy as the last tech blogger this week.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 22:26 (five days ago) link
I’m old and only recently noticed him but it’s nice to see someone who’s on the reviews beat who isn’t epic bacon or a weirdo devotee. Just letting me know if things work and are worth my time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 23:06 (five days ago) link
i liked that iPad review, seemed pretty honest and not overly dramaticand, thankfully he stuck the product placement at the very end
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 May 2024 13:12 (four days ago) link
Finally a replacement for "Lemmings" as the worst Apple ad ever.― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 4:12 PM (yesterday)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 4:12 PM (yesterday)
Apple agrees...
https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/apple-ipad-ad-crush-apology.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crush-ad-criticism-1235895327/
― Lee626, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:42 (four days ago) link
lol
― calstars, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:46 (four days ago) link
I hate apple
― calstars, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:47 (four days ago) link
In fairness, if an apple critic made that ad, I'd be thumbs up, so really can't fault apple for coming up with it first.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 9 May 2024 23:56 (four days ago) link
rip https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/apple-apologizes-ipad-pro-crushed-ad-it-missed-mark/2559321
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 10 May 2024 00:41 (three days ago) link
“In fairness” are you really putting the customer on equal footing with apple corporation
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 00:44 (three days ago) link
Fourteen years ago, many members of another community I was involved with saw the iPad as a huge innovation. For me, I felt that it was simply a consumption device to sell more content from the App Store.
I win.
― fajita seas, Friday, 10 May 2024 03:32 (three days ago) link
Conclusive
― calstars, Friday, 10 May 2024 04:07 (three days ago) link
I hate Apple and I don't think I've ever bought any of their products, but I can see what they were trying to do with the ad and it's actually quite funny how literally it sums up what the smartphone is right now, culturally and technically. I'd say it's a bad ad because it provides no illusion, just an uncomfortable brutal truth. Making music, films, pictures, drawing... what isn't done on the iPhone ?
― Nabozo, Friday, 10 May 2024 13:12 (three days ago) link
I barely touch an actual laptop or desktop outside of work and do pretty much everything at home on my iPad. Tablet good imo
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:32 (three days ago) link