No, I'm pissed because their services is so shitty outside the Apple store imperium since I know a friend which had to wait for like over a month to get the laptop back.
And I'm pissed that they can't answer thru mail.
The rest is just me waiting because 1) I wanted to wait until the next generation was released a long time ago. 2) I haven't bought any device for backup yet. But that's no problem, I mailed them before it had gone 365 days since I received the laptop, and in Sweden we got three years warranty for factory flaws so I doubt they can refuse a repair anyway.
Not only lazy, it would had been easier for me to mail them, don't ask why.
I wouldn't say "screwed up" since I doubt it's to late. I just think their service is inconvenient.
If I could go to an Apple store, show it and say "sometimes it acts like this and that" and they just took it in / replaced it / helped me back up over to another machine and let me bring that one home I would have liked the service...
Well, if you don't have one with an issue how does it matter? It's not like they will replace all notebooks if they still work. If you have the issue return it no matter what if they are affected or not.
But seems rather obvious everyone buying the chips can have the issues, why would any brand be immune since the manufacturer is the same?
The boring part is that it sucks having to get an external HDD, back up your machine, be left without it for weeks because there are no Apple stores in Sweden so you have to send it in, and so on so on. So I waited until the last days of the warranty just to notice that their gay webpage seem to count one year FROM SHIPPING DATE and not from when I actually got the machine in my hands. So I couldn't fill in the RMA crap because it said my machine was out of warranty. I mailed them and they told me to call them but I haven't yet because it's so fucking inconvenient and I would rather take it by text.
Hate Apple. Also my backlighting must have some scratch or something because I have an area underneath the actual pixels which is brighter and if I move my head it moves behind them. Not to forget the retarded decision on their part to just use 128 MB, which is another reason I waited, just in case I would happen to get a 256MB vram machine in return. Not likely but I could hope..
Yeah, and the aluminium "foil" has become lose around the lid button so it bumps out..
* Usually the issue isn't as serious as that, in Safari the text just used to be mixed up. I thought maybe it was some memory issue or something because Safari always seemed to take all ram. But everyone else claimed they never had that problem (though not very unlikely for mac people) and since I sometimes gets other weird issues I guess my GPU is a little faulty.
But if the expansions have all that how should you be able to play in multiplayer? Or will it be as with Warcraft III there you either play WC3:ROC or WC3:TFT on bnet?
Rather ok solution but don't mix well with limited amount of units for the one race you bought. Will they increase the amount of units in the next expansion even though it don't contain campaigns for that race?
That will be weird, though can be done by letting you meet new enemy units from your old race I guess.
Quite weird considering the brittish people* are probably the ones who gets the most ripped off of everyone. I have no idea why their prices are so high, people can't even blaim that it's translation of documentation and such.
* Meaning of that being that quite a few of the first americans was brittish, right?
Intresting, I hadn't seen them all. I'm amazed and disgusted at the same time and in some weird way as always question my sexuality due to the anxiety such images put in my brain.
Over here people say: * Ipod or (incorrectly and retarded) MP3 (without the player part.)
* Paper nose tissue.
* Use the copying machine / take a copy.
* Vaccum clean.
And my vaccum cleaner is a Siemens you insensitive clod! Electrolux is probably the most well known brand but it's shitty, Siemens and Miele is German so go figure:D Though I could had got a 67 dB Samsung which would had been south korean I assume.
The others aren't "clones", the iPod wasn't the first mp3 player so why would all the others be clones? They are just other mp3 players with a smaller market share and probably less marketing.
People don't buy iPhones because it's trendy. Since it's trendy because the interface are so superior people are buying them due to their superiousness.
(Also just compare it to the lame copys from say Samsung or something, which look worse and have more buttons and probably lack an interface as nice.)
Except, like, you know, the iPod and iPhone wins in the user interface area.
Sure android will probably get even better, and don't look all that bad already. But I don't see someone like my sister going to pick that up instead of an iPhone if she saw them both between each other.
The user interfaces of the Apple products are just so much more polished.
Though I would never get an iPod and preferably not never a music player without a memory card slot so that kills iRiver Spinn and the new Cowon S9 for me. That still leaves Cowon D2, the new O2, Sandisk Sansa Fuze over the iPod, and could had potentionally included Sonys new NWZ-players if they had memory card slots.
For a phone the nerd in me would definitly go android but the phone also needs to be very affordable.
It wouldn't be for overclockers, it would be more like:
"Oh, so our next technology core is out with a 80% speed improvement, but noone will demand that now and if we sell it immediatly we may not be able to increase it more than 20% the next year."
And then decide that it's better to sell chips at 25-30% speed increase now and be able to raise the speed in a more linear fashion so people don't only jump in and get new hardware whenever there for some reason is huge steps forward.
Yeah, he's trying to convince me that people had children later / after having more mutations then the average life spann was what? 20? (Though some wasn't grown enough when they died I assume, which makes more of the people who actually got kids older than that, but anyway.)
Isn't it much more likely that it happens slower because we live longer? (Or well, would had been if the amount of people on the earth was constant, as it is now it doesn't matter how long we live since we just get kids anyway and they get new kids and so on even if we aren't dead ourself yet =P)
Ok, so the person who said 1080p/i had abviously never understood that it was only true for 4x zoom or whatever to call it and not for "fit to screen."
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No, I'm pissed because their services is so shitty outside the Apple store imperium since I know a friend which had to wait for like over a month to get the laptop back.
And I'm pissed that they can't answer thru mail.
The rest is just me waiting because 1) I wanted to wait until the next generation was released a long time ago. 2) I haven't bought any device for backup yet.
But that's no problem, I mailed them before it had gone 365 days since I received the laptop, and in Sweden we got three years warranty for factory flaws so I doubt they can refuse a repair anyway.
Not only lazy, it would had been easier for me to mail them, don't ask why.
I wouldn't say "screwed up" since I doubt it's to late. I just think their service is inconvenient.
If I could go to an Apple store, show it and say "sometimes it acts like this and that" and they just took it in / replaced it / helped me back up over to another machine and let me bring that one home I would have liked the service ...
Too bad Apple got rid of the quality control but kept the price level.
Well, if you don't have one with an issue how does it matter? It's not like they will replace all notebooks if they still work. If you have the issue return it no matter what if they are affected or not.
But seems rather obvious everyone buying the chips can have the issues, why would any brand be immune since the manufacturer is the same?
Say what?*
The boring part is that it sucks having to get an external HDD, back up your machine, be left without it for weeks because there are no Apple stores in Sweden so you have to send it in, and so on so on. So I waited until the last days of the warranty just to notice that their gay webpage seem to count one year FROM SHIPPING DATE and not from when I actually got the machine in my hands. So I couldn't fill in the RMA crap because it said my machine was out of warranty. I mailed them and they told me to call them but I haven't yet because it's so fucking inconvenient and I would rather take it by text.
Hate Apple. Also my backlighting must have some scratch or something because I have an area underneath the actual pixels which is brighter and if I move my head it moves behind them. Not to forget the retarded decision on their part to just use 128 MB, which is another reason I waited, just in case I would happen to get a 256MB vram machine in return. Not likely but I could hope ..
Yeah, and the aluminium "foil" has become lose around the lid button so it bumps out..
* Usually the issue isn't as serious as that, in Safari the text just used to be mixed up. I thought maybe it was some memory issue or something because Safari always seemed to take all ram. But everyone else claimed they never had that problem (though not very unlikely for mac people) and since I sometimes gets other weird issues I guess my GPU is a little faulty.
The funny part is how they would had got an Nvidia chipset to get better integrated graphics when ATIs integrated ones are superior to Nvidias.
But then I'm not sure if ATI makes chipsets for laptops with Intel CPUs and integrated graphics so maybe that was impossible.
Anyone know?
But in Warcraft III the first one WAS a whole game. It's just that the expension makes it an even better game.
And some people only have ROC and only play that.
But then most new games seem to cost around the same amount when released, no matter what if they suck, is short, or whatever.
So what's wrong with paying more for something which is actually worth it?
If they then happen to charge you 3 times $50 instead of $150 so what?
Of course the later will lead to more sales (more money depends on how many buy the expansion.)
Also all the MMORPGs with subscription fees are already incredible expensive, at least with RTS games you don't pay for a subscription.
But if the expansions have all that how should you be able to play in multiplayer? Or will it be as with Warcraft III there you either play WC3:ROC or WC3:TFT on bnet?
Rather ok solution but don't mix well with limited amount of units for the one race you bought. Will they increase the amount of units in the next expansion even though it don't contain campaigns for that race?
That will be weird, though can be done by letting you meet new enemy units from your old race I guess.
Rather something like if you buy the zerg version you can only play multiplayer as zerg but meet any kind, and so on.
Which would suck.
If one version is enough for all multiplayer things I'll just buy one obviously and not play the other missions, or play them on a pirated copy.
Ok, didn't know about the cultural story.
Quite weird considering the brittish people* are probably the ones who gets the most ripped off of everyone. I have no idea why their prices are so high, people can't even blaim that it's translation of documentation and such.
* Meaning of that being that quite a few of the first americans was brittish, right?
I guess people change :)
lol, reminds me of southpark there mr slave or someone is having a contest with paris hilton.
Paris Hilton stuffs in a pineapple.
Mr slave stuffs in.. yeah ..
it does ;/, I don't wanna see outward poking female assholes either :(
Intresting, I hadn't seen them all. I'm amazed and disgusted at the same time and in some weird way as always question my sexuality due to the anxiety such images put in my brain.
So, like, anyone got a link for the download?
But we don't care about Apples profits or retarded design decisions (unless they affect us.)
So you describe why it's that way. It still sucks.
Over here people say:
* Ipod or (incorrectly and retarded) MP3 (without the player part.)
* Paper nose tissue.
* Use the copying machine / take a copy.
* Vaccum clean.
And my vaccum cleaner is a Siemens you insensitive clod! Electrolux is probably the most well known brand but it's shitty, Siemens and Miele is German so go figure :D
Though I could had got a 67 dB Samsung which would had been south korean I assume.
Obviously he meant safe as in the market isn't saturated and this kind of devices will still be sold for some/a long time.
The others aren't "clones", the iPod wasn't the first mp3 player so why would all the others be clones? They are just other mp3 players with a smaller market share and probably less marketing.
s/trendy/superior/g
Fixed that for you.
People don't buy iPhones because it's trendy. Since it's trendy because the interface are so superior people are buying them due to their superiousness.
(Also just compare it to the lame copys from say Samsung or something, which look worse and have more buttons and probably lack an interface as nice.)
Except, like, you know, the iPod and iPhone wins in the user interface area.
Sure android will probably get even better, and don't look all that bad already. But I don't see someone like my sister going to pick that up instead of an iPhone if she saw them both between each other.
The user interfaces of the Apple products are just so much more polished.
Though I would never get an iPod and preferably not never a music player without a memory card slot so that kills iRiver Spinn and the new Cowon S9 for me. That still leaves Cowon D2, the new O2, Sandisk Sansa Fuze over the iPod, and could had potentionally included Sonys new NWZ-players if they had memory card slots.
For a phone the nerd in me would definitly go android but the phone also needs to be very affordable.
It wouldn't be for overclockers, it would be more like:
"Oh, so our next technology core is out with a 80% speed improvement, but noone will demand that now and if we sell it immediatly we may not be able to increase it more than 20% the next year."
And then decide that it's better to sell chips at 25-30% speed increase now and be able to raise the speed in a more linear fashion so people don't only jump in and get new hardware whenever there for some reason is huge steps forward.
Or something, what do I know =P
All this asteroids vs meteoroids talk on Slashdot just gave hemoroids a new meaning to me. There even is a crater!
Yeah, he's trying to convince me that people had children later / after having more mutations then the average life spann was what? 20? (Though some wasn't grown enough when they died I assume, which makes more of the people who actually got kids older than that, but anyway.)
Isn't it much more likely that it happens slower because we live longer? (Or well, would had been if the amount of people on the earth was constant, as it is now it doesn't matter how long we live since we just get kids anyway and they get new kids and so on even if we aren't dead ourself yet =P)
Ok, so the person who said 1080p/i had abviously never understood that it was only true for 4x zoom or whatever to call it and not for "fit to screen."
Ok.
Another question:
Most people seem to agree that currently Intel CPUs overclock much better than AMD ones.
Is that because Intel is voluntarily holding back somewhat to be able to raise performance in a more consistant manner and sell chips the whole time?
Or is it because AMD have to push their chips very hard even at stock settings leaving them less reliable and so on?
Or do both use working chips at the fastest speeds they can get and no one "voluntarily over- och underclock" so to speak?