McBa is all powered up and ready for “productivity”.
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McBookaire: The adventure begins
Saturday, April 5, 2008
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McBookaire: McBa is in New Jersey
Friday, April 4, 2008UPDATE: Frau’s got it! I can see her signature on the FedEx website. (way kool!) If I didn’t have a problem solving call this afternoon, I’d call it a week, and go home. It’s like my birthday!
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The McBa is in New Jersey. I’m so excited. I can feel myself becoming more productive already!
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Apr 4, 2008 8:31 AM
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
EDISON, NJ
7:26 AM
At local FedEx facility
EDISON, NJ
2:16 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
NEWARK, NJ
Apr 3, 2008 4:59 PM
Departed FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK
9:06 PM
Int’l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK
11:48 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK
2:27 PM
In transit
SHANGHAI CN
Apr 2, 2008 10:37 AM
Picked up
SHANGHAI CN
Package received after FedEx cutoff
10:37 AM
Left origin
SHANGHAI CN
8:39 AM
Package data transmitted to FedEx
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McBookaire: Apple tells me my order is in the air!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008My one order is coming in three pieces … err, I mean shipments. Hope that’s not prophetic. From China! Don’t know why but I thought Apple as a US based company. Guess it was stupid to think we make anything but mcdonalds in the USA.
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McBookaire: I have to name it
Monday, March 31, 2008All my platforms have names. Luggable, POSDELL, BigBox, Hasta (as in Hasta la Vista), POKEY, or PUTRID (performance wise).
In light of the TV commercials, I here by designate the soon to arrive Mac Book Air as … …?
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TECH HARDWARE: Mac Book Air
Sunday, March 30, 2008OK, call me “Martha”. (She’s using one.) I just spent the balance of my 2007 technology budget on one.
It should be fun.
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TECH HARDWARE: troublesome laptop (mac book air) and a flight long gone
Sunday, March 9, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019882.html
March 08, 2008
The TSA Doesn’t Dig The Macbook Air
Posted by Manuel Lora at March 8, 2008 08:28 PM
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The TSA is the federal agency that supposedly keeps airports safe. It prevents bombs, firearms, knives, brass knuckles and all sorts of evil objects and people from boarding flights. Yet they were puzzled by the new Macbook Air:
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The senior agent hasn’t been trained for technological change. New products on the market? They haven’t been TSA approved. Probably shouldn’t be permitted. He requires me to open the “device” and run a program. I do, and despite his inclination, the lead agent decides to release me and my troublesome laptop. My flight is long gone now, so I head for the service center to get rebooked.
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Oh heroic TSA agents, may you keep our homeland secure from all evils present and future. May your vigilant, Orwellian and totalitarian eyes look after us poor frightened citizens forever and ever. And while you’re at it, read some technology blogs and leave us alone.
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I guess this is one small strike against my getting one. Is this part of the cost of being on the bleeding edge?
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TECH HARDWARE: Western Digital’s website may be wrong about “out of warranty”
Tuesday, March 4, 2008http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/03/western_digital.html
March 04, 2008
Western Digital Lies About Warranty Status
The Gripe Line
Ed Foster
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Drive manufacturers often seem to have a bad memory when it comes to their warranty promises. That’s what one reader discovered when Western Digital’s website falsely labeled his drive as being out of warranty when it wasn’t.
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Then the reader discovered some fine print that only popped up when he hovered his cursor over a small “note” link. It read:
“By default, the warranty date is calculated from the manufacture date. However, if you have proof of purchase, we can update the warranty to calculate it from the purchase date. If you feel that the warranty date needs to be updated from the purchase date, please follow the instructions below.”
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I would have thought that was “fraudulent”. I can see them saying “we only know that we made the drive x/y/z date.” But, I think that they also ask you to register the drive with the dumb post card. Maybe, they are NOT crooks, but this is certainly bad PR.
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TECH HARDWARE: OLPC can’t deliver!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/25/0625206&from=rss
Big Delays, Small Laptops: OLPC XO Recipients Mad
Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 25, @08:15AM
from the give-one-get-one-if-you-are-lucky dept.
Portables Hardware
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PCWMike writes to tell us about the growing concern over the failure of OLPC to deliver laptops to some of its customers. PC World editor-in-chief Harry McCracken notes that record-keeping was poor for some of the people who paid via PayPal. A report on LinuxJournal also suggests that customer information was lost due to errors in the database software used by OLPC. Quoting PC World: “OLPC spokesperson Jackie Lustig acknowledges problems with the ordering and the fulfillment process, but says the biggest challenges are a short supply of XO laptops and the organization’s ability to meet consumer demand for the XO laptop. Some also wonder whether chronic delivery problems for Give One, Get One donors may bode poorly for the 15 countries slated to receive nearly 500,000 XO notebooks. Lustig says delivering in bulk to just over a dozen countries is infinitely simpler than processing and delivering 80,000 individual laptops.”
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Guess I wasn’t lucky. Now the “early January” date has slipped to “maybe April”. Argh! What did these guys take lessons from Dell? They should have outsourced it to Amazon!
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TECH HARDWARE: Sitting on the back seat was a … …
Sunday, January 27, 2008http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080126/D8UDG2N00.html
Photo Clues Lead to Camera’s Owner
Jan 26, 4:43 AM (ET)
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
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At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn’t seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.
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I won’t spoil the story by revealing the ending, but …
… why don’t electronic devices have a return address?
… why don’t all cell phones suggest an ICE (In Case of Emergency)?
… why don’t more people try harder like these folks?
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TECH HARDWARE: OLPC hardware on order
Sunday, December 23, 2007In my spare time (ha!), I have decided to “learn” the OLPC. It just has some tremendous potential. Under the G1G1 program, I should have mine shortly. I figure I can be at least as good as the Thrid World child who gets one. Maybe not. The child has time, motivation, and focus. Maybe I can do almost as good? :-)
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