I work at an Apple Authorized Retailer and we just had a lady come in to see if we could fix her PowerBook G4.
She walks in the store and comes up to me, “Sir, I’ve got a baked Apple.” I laugh and she proceeds to take her PowerBook G4 of the bag it was in. The top of the screen was a little brown and warped. I had my manager come up and look at it. He hadn’t seen anything like that before. Read more…
Recently I sold a PowerBook (Pismo) to a co-worker who had had enough of being “preached to” about the joys of Mac ownership and decided to make the switch. After a little over month, he did something very, very bad. The power cord to his external hard drive strangely fits nicely into the S-video plug. Obviously not paying attention, he inadvertedly plugged the power cord into the S-video. Immediately he fried the monitor.
A few Macworld Expos back, Apple introduced iPhoto 1.0, which did a fine job of revolutionizing the task of importing, organizing, editing, and sharing your photos on your digital camera. Well after a few minor point releases, Apple has finally upped the ante releasing iPhoto 2.0, which adds some new features, and a slicker interface, which makes iPhoto 2 far and beyond what most “free” applications would ever give you. For full story visit MacHelpNet.
My BTO, Powerbook 12″ 867MHz PowerPC G4, 640MB, 60G, SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW), AirPort Extreme Card, U.S. English, has arrived. The order date was 01/07/03 – 11:46 AM Pacific Standard Time. Ed: Keep us posted on your new arrivals, folks — I’m watching for a 1.42GHz Power Mac! -PK