Here are Lisa’s and my iBooks showing off some tricking out. It appears the old-style rainbow Apple stickers fit perfectly over the glowing apple on the lid of the latest generation iBooks. Neat.
Handy Tiger Tip
Note: Mac geekiness to follow… This month’s MacAddict has a nice tip for turning the dashboard on and off in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). This is useful if you find things running slowly due to memory issues, like I did on my iBook. I’m putting it here because I know I’ll misplace the magazine …
iBook Update – An Epilogue
Following my iBook’s repair, I received an email from Apple asking for comments on my experience. Let’s just say I was very firm with them. I figured my comments would go into some database somewhere, to be treated as a number on a customer sat metric chart, and that would be the end of it. …
Blast (Almost Literally) From The Past
This is one of the tip-ins when I was considering buying an iBook: Solarian II. This was an awesome game on the Mac II back in the early 1990s, and it’s just as addictive in its current incarnation as it was back then. It’s a variation on Space Invaders or Galaga, only with some really …
iBook Update III
I decided to relax for a few days and let Apple’s repair depot (an outfit called Flextronics International, located in Memphis) do what they had to do to finish up my iBook. The status on Apple’s web site showed that the repair was finished and the unit was shipped back to the store on Friday. …
iBook Update II
At the end of the day yesterday, the status of my iBook was “Hold – Need More Info.” I decided to call Apple Customer Support to see what further info they needed so I could prod this along. The customer service rep looked up the service record and showed that the technician wrote “No problem …
iBook Update
According to Apple’s Support web site, it shows a status of “Unit Shipped to Depot” for my iBook. The detail shows they’ve received the unit at the depot as of early this morning.
So It’s Not All Perfect, Then
In general, my conversion to the Mac has gone smoothly. Applications have worked well, and the problems I’ve had are ones I’d expect with a new platform. I’ve made it around most of the them pretty easily. A few weeks after I got my iBook, I noticed the lower left corner of the computer’s case …
OK, The REAL Reason I Got an iBook
Confession time. 🙂 Overall, my PC-to-Mac conversion is going well. I successfully hopped on Panera’s free wireless network yesterday, albeit with a minor snag. The Safari browser does not like to be hijacked, which is a good thing in general, but because of this it won’t allow you to agree to Panera’s T&C document and …
My Name is Joe, and I am a new Mac user (Days One and Two)
My new iBook arrived on Friday morning. (I was hassled by certain individuals about my “stalking” its shipment through FedEx’s tracking site.) The computer is a 12″ iBook G4 with an 80 GB hard drive. I added 512 MB of memory so the total onboard now is 768 MB. It’s also got the Airport Extreme …
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