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Apple, Interesting Things
Feb 2nd, 2010 |
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I don’t know if the iPad is something I’ll get, but it sure looks cool. I’ve already had two friends of mine, who are not computer-savvy at all, say they really want one!
One friend just bought a netbook because she wanted a small, portable computer to do some light internet surfing, email and general writing. I tried to talk her into a Mac, but even used ones were more than she wanted to spend.
After the iPad announcement, she said “I’m returning my netbook and buying and iPad. It’s exactly what I want.”
Another friend owns a hair salon and was looking...
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Macintosh
Sep 24th, 2009 |
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I’m back up and running. This post is being written on my repaired MacBook Pro!
Wednesday night (9/23) the status of my laptop changed from “On hold” to “Repaired”. And to my surprise this morning I saw that it was out on a FedEx truck for delivery to my house. Apple had shipped it overnight from their repair facility in Texas!
Upon opening the laptop, it showed two items as being repaired:
605-1791 Logic Board (No Video)
616-0261 Battery (Runtime Too Short)
I had never noticed that my battery runtime was too short, but then I don’t use the MacBook Pro on...
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Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 22nd, 2009 |
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It appears a lot of people have been affected by the NVIDIA chip bug. A poster on the Apple Discussion forums posted that he suspects more people are being affected by this now because of Snow Leopard, which uses the GPU more heavily. This seems plausible to me.
Anyway, still no love for my MacBook Pro. It’s been sitting at the Apple Repair Center since 9/15 with the status “On hold – Part on order”. As of today that means the part has been on order for a week and still hasn’t arrived. So more waiting for me.
Considering that others have said the repair has taken...
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Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 14th, 2009 |
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For those of you in the same boat, here is an update regarding the dead displays on my MacBook Pro.
I arrived at my noontime Genius appointment a few minutes early and they were able to take me right away. The Genius was aware of the NVIDIA issue and after a quick test to confirm the displays were dead, took it out back to do a “specific test for the NVIDIA issue”. He came back a few minutes later and confirmed that this was the NVIDIA chip failure.
Unfortunately for me, they don’t do repairs in the store so my MacBook Pro had to be sent out (with an estimated 5-7 business days...
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Paul Lefebvre in
Macintosh
Sep 11th, 2009 |
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Damn it! My MacBook Pro has succumbed to the dreaded NVIDIA graphics processor defect. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT apparently can stop working various MacBook Pros from 2007 and 2008. It’s bad enough that Apple extended the repair period to be up to 3 years from date of purchase, which is fortunate since this laptop is about 18 months old and out-of-warranty.
In retrospect, the video had been acting a little flaky lately. Sometimes the displays would not come back up after waking from sleep, for example.
Everything was fine this morning; the system booted normally. I decided to apply...
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Paul Lefebvre in
iPhone
Aug 13th, 2009 |
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Here’s a question for all your marketing types out there. Whey wasn’t iPhone called iPod phone?
When Apple released the first iPod, most people that it was a strange name at best. But iPod has the benefit of being a completely unattached name; it can mean almost anything.
And for a while it did. First Apple released iPod mini, using a second word to note the specific type of iPod it was.
Then came iPod nano, iPod shuffle and iPod classic.
When all the rumors about an iPod-based phone were swirling in late 2006, I thought for sure that Apple would simply call it iPod phone. It made...
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Paul Lefebvre in
iPhone
Jul 15th, 2009 |
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After 10 days with my iPhone, some more thoughts:
Push E-Mail
I love that my MobileMe account has push e-mail, but I really would also like to have Push for Gmail as well. I use Google Apps to handle my mail for logicalvue.com, but doing a fetch every 15 minutes isn’t enough; I want it now! I also want the “read” status to transfer more quickly.
As a workaround, I’m forwarding my Gmail to Yahoo Mail (which works with Push). But that’s not entirely satisfying since mail I’ve read on the phone won’t show as read on Mac OS X Mail (and vice versa).
Based...
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Paul Lefebvre in
iPhone
Jul 8th, 2009 |
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My Verizon contract expired on July 3, so I’m now the proud owner of Apple iPhone 3GS (32GB, white). This is one slick piece of technology!
I can see why Apple has not yet come out with a Netbook: the iPhone is their Netbook. So far, it’s completely replaced everything that I used my Asus Netbook for. I guess that will be heading up on Craigslist soon.
I’ve had no trouble at all typing on the virtual keyboard. Mobile Safari works wonderfully.
I was a little worried, but so far, I have no complaints about the AT&T network; around town (and at home) I’m always getting...
