Comments on: Last entry, 10 May!?? http://www.ockle.org/blog/2005/07/29/last-entry-10-may Martin's Minddump. Mindfield. Data Minding. Whatever. Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:47:04 -0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: David Kellam http://www.ockle.org/blog/2005/07/29/last-entry-10-may/comment-page-1#comment-10 David Kellam Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:05:00 +0000 http://www.ockle.org/wordpress/?p=41#comment-10 Well, two comments here:<BR/><BR/>1. I recently bought an iPod mini on behalf of my brother and was very disappointed to find it had no power adapter - you have to use the computer to charge it. My normal iPod (4th-gen 40GB) not only came with one, but both a firewire and usb2 cable. You'd think that's a good idea. As it stands, the iPod was plugged into USB1 (slooooow - not even 1.1) on a machine with 2 free FireWire ports. Nice. The power adapter is also $45. Accessories for the iPod are just a joke!<BR/><BR/>2. I then ordered an iBook (14") with an Airport Extreme Base Station, also for my brother. Not only did the system come charged (although I still needed to fully charge and discharge to calibrate the battery, but that's just for estimation purposes), but the OS was installed already and iWork was pre-installed even though I didn't order it. You go to open it and you can either enter a serial number straight away or purchase online. SUCH a change from a year ago, when I bought my iBook 12" and had to sit there changing 6 CDs just to install the base system, then update and all that jazz.<BR/><BR/>Good to see some progress.<BR/><BR/>Also, Apple now sends electronic invoices rather than those old dot-matrix printout things. One wonders what kind of ancient and inflexible ERP system they're running...<BR/><BR/>DRK Well, two comments here:

1. I recently bought an iPod mini on behalf of my brother and was very disappointed to find it had no power adapter – you have to use the computer to charge it. My normal iPod (4th-gen 40GB) not only came with one, but both a firewire and usb2 cable. You’d think that’s a good idea. As it stands, the iPod was plugged into USB1 (slooooow – not even 1.1) on a machine with 2 free FireWire ports. Nice. The power adapter is also $45. Accessories for the iPod are just a joke!

2. I then ordered an iBook (14″) with an Airport Extreme Base Station, also for my brother. Not only did the system come charged (although I still needed to fully charge and discharge to calibrate the battery, but that’s just for estimation purposes), but the OS was installed already and iWork was pre-installed even though I didn’t order it. You go to open it and you can either enter a serial number straight away or purchase online. SUCH a change from a year ago, when I bought my iBook 12″ and had to sit there changing 6 CDs just to install the base system, then update and all that jazz.

Good to see some progress.

Also, Apple now sends electronic invoices rather than those old dot-matrix printout things. One wonders what kind of ancient and inflexible ERP system they’re running…

DRK

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