With the "can be charged 1000 times" thing, I guess they're assuming that by the time it dies you'll be ready for a new laptop anyway.
Jeez, don't get all Movie of the Week. I was just too cheap to buy you a real present.
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Jessica - Jan 06, 2009 8:23:23 am PST #8608 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom Scola - Jan 06, 2009 8:25:50 am PST #8609 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Crap. No Mac Mini.
Kristen - Jan 06, 2009 8:28:36 am PST #8610 of 25501
I think the current battery in my Powerbook is #5. The first four were recalled for a variety of issues, including the whole potential to explode thing, during the first 18 months to two years that I owned it. (The fifth one has recently died of, I'm assuming, old age.)
That experience has made me twitchy on non-removable batteries. If I'd had to bring my laptop into the store every time? Well, at some point, someone would've been bludgeoned to death.
tommyrot - Jan 06, 2009 8:29:12 am PST #8611 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
With the "can be charged 1000 times" thing, I guess they're assuming that by the time it dies you'll be ready for a new laptop anyway.
So if you charge it almost every day (while using up each charge, I assume) that's three years. (And I bet most people would do a full charge less often.) Not too bad. But I wonder what battery life would be that last year.
lori - Jan 06, 2009 8:34:18 am PST #8612 of 25501
Have you guys talked about the Blackberry Storm here yet? Any thoughts or experiences?
My old work-supplied Treo 680 is getting pretty beat-up, and I can switch to any of the BBs or maybe hold out for an iPhone, if it ever gets approved for my work. Is the Storm close enough?
omnis_audis - Jan 06, 2009 8:42:15 am PST #8613 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
still no firewire port on the MacBook. Really sad they did away with that.
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2009 9:03:40 am PST #8614 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Crap. No Mac Mini.
?
Are they discontinuing them?
Liese S. - Jan 06, 2009 9:05:26 am PST #8615 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The Blackberry Storm is seductive to me, but I don't have any applicable experience with it.
Tom Scola - Jan 06, 2009 9:17:20 am PST #8616 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Are they discontinuing them?
No. It's just that they haven't updated the hardware in 1½ years. I want to buy one to hook up to my TV, but I can't justify paying that much for such an underpowered system.
I'm seriously considering buying a Dell and running windows.
megan walker - Jan 06, 2009 9:21:10 am PST #8617 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm seriously considering buying a Dell and running windows.
And, just like that, Scola goes to the Dark Side.