Do let us know, Jon -- as I said before, and ita confirms, there are plenty of people who are using them with Macs, so I was surprised to have it fail so utterly on me. And it could be some random thing to do with this particular machine, even though it claims to be a supported version of the OS yadda yadda...

Hmm. I think part of my annoyance is that the usability of things like consumer product configuration have improved so much over the last few years (and, when it's working right, this is really a good example of that) that to have it really go south when things aren't just perfect seems... I dunno, sloppy?

This would be my major worry -- so many fun toys don't play well with Macs!

Like, for instance, the Blackberry Pearl. I could kill the smarmy little kid who swore up and down that the Blackberry was "TOTALLY" compatible and that the installation disc was for Mac as well as PC. Yeah, nsm. KILL KILL KILL! Luckily Missing Sync has a beta version up for Mac/Blackberry that seems to be working all right, but I still want to march back into the store and knock him upside the head.

The thing that killed me is that I was debating between a Blackjack (which runs Windows Mobile) and the Blackberry, and the kid tried to tell me that "nothing running Windows will work with a Mac" and refused to believe me when I told him I'd been happily syncing my 8125 via Missing Sync with no problem. SMACK!

anyway, the setup was much glitchier than advertised, but the Harmony is my new Best Friend Forever.

I had a feeling I got it easy with my setup.

But I told you the remote itself was made of AWESOME.

I had a feeling I got it easy with my setup.

I suspect yours was the more typical one, actually.

I'm eyeing the door and wondering if I can sneak out of work for the afternoon. Not because it's a gorgeous day or because I have exciting international spy plans. Because I want to go home and play with my remote.

The thing that killed me is that I was debating between a Blackjack (which runs Windows Mobile) and the Blackberry, and the kid tried to tell me that "nothing running Windows will work with a Mac" and refused to believe me when I told him I'd been happily syncing my 8125 via Missing Sync with no problem. SMACK!

Little moron! It drives me crazy when people tell me things that are incorrect in stores that I can confirm with a five-second google search.

Glad you could get your phone partially working though, Kristin.

I remind myself that salespeople in electronics stored don't earn all that much money. If they actually knew what they were talking about, they could probably get much higher paying employment elsewhere.

These guys make a fair amount of money on commission. Regardless, no excuse for giving customers misnformation. (I feel justified saying this, having worked my share of minimum wage retail jobs.)

These guys make a fair amount of money on commission.

Oh yeah. When they put a huge amount of effort into pushing one product over a similar one - I figure that currently their commissions must be higher for that product.

IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.

Damn, I remember reading about the Pentium a year / 18 months before they came out. I was amazed that the Pentium would run at 60mhz! With higher speeds to come!

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IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.

Ah, the good old days. The hopes! The dreams! The bizarre floating-point errors!

The bizarre floating-point errors!

Oooh. I\'d forgotten about that one. Ahh.... good times...