D-Frag
09-17-2004, 08:05 PM
Seriously? As most of you know, I am not very fond of the apple corp, I bought a brand spanking new I-Book in 00' and it was very nice, in fact I was so excited to own my first Mac, that I went and bought ever fricken accesory I could find for it. In total I spent roughly $3,000 on this p.o.s. but I didn't know it at the time.
Ooooh about 9 months into owning my beauty, the power chord dies (the thing that charges your battery) no biggie, I figured I probably just abused it or something so I saved up $75.00 and bought a new one. Shortly after that, the battery went, all within the first year, so rack up another $100.00 for that.
This continued every year up until this year....yes, I have been through 4 power chords, and 2 batteries, I now need a new keyboard cuz some of the keys have permantly stuck.
Here it is only 4 short years after I purchased this thing for roughly $1,500 and it finally died on me. How.....why....I have no clue, but if I had spent that much money on a PC counterpart in 00' I would still be happily surfing away on windows XP with no problems. Let me tell you what all has gone wrong.
So I the day before I leave on vacation, I noticed the orange glow on my laptop from charging, I thought to myself, that's wierd, it should be fully charged. So I turn it on only to discover it wont charge, it was only holding power if I kept it plugged in. I start freaking out bigtime, first cuz I can barely swing this vacation as it is, secondly I bring my laptop with me every time I go on photoshoots (because I don't have alot of memory on my camera and have to upload to a hardrive) So here I am a day before leaving on a trip up to Sedona, Jerome, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon with no way of holding any more then 24 pictures, im freaking. So I improvise, and spend $35.00 at Best Buy and get a cigarette lighter converter for my car, so I can at least plug it in and upload in my vehicle. You would think this would work, and even though the mac was stable on power it still freaking crashed.
So im in Sedona Arizona......nothing around me, I go to upload my pics, the OS screen loads, and then bam....it shuts off. Im like wtf is going on, so I start it up again......this time however I see no OS, in fact the only thing my Mac does now is blink a folder, with a question mark, and back again....great, I lost my ****ing OS on a very important vacation....THANK YOU APPLE....Oh wait though, I shouldn't thank them, cuz when I got back home and called the all mighty elitist corporate headquarters, they offered me there lovely advice, and I quote 'Sir I see your laptop is out of warranty, if you would like to pay $49.95 for a 3 day tech support pass, I can do that for you.' I don't need to explain my response, all I know is I probably made the poor women cry after hanging up with me.
So now, my unorganized ass has been sifting through layers and layers of storage trying to find were I put my damn OS disks, with no avail.....ive seriously had it with Apple, every single one, and I am being completly serious here, cannot compare in speed to my shitty ass 1.7gig AMD processor (I was working on a brand spanking new dual G5 with OSX last week....slooooooow). And this is coming from someone, who at one point, actually liked Macs, and it seems there shoddy equipment has taken a toll on my purchasing decisions for the rest of my life.
So last year, after thinking about buying a new keyboard, I was informed my laptop would only sell for around $200.00, oh boy, what a ****ing investment that is!!!!!!!111111 So yeah, im going to take a huge crap, right on my keyboard, ill even put the brand new Airport right next to it, take a picture, put it on ebay for a penny, and go spam my ebay article to every damn Macintosh forum from here to China and back, and I hope it gets good press, cuz its worth every bit of shame it deserves.
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Ooooh about 9 months into owning my beauty, the power chord dies (the thing that charges your battery) no biggie, I figured I probably just abused it or something so I saved up $75.00 and bought a new one. Shortly after that, the battery went, all within the first year, so rack up another $100.00 for that.
This continued every year up until this year....yes, I have been through 4 power chords, and 2 batteries, I now need a new keyboard cuz some of the keys have permantly stuck.
Here it is only 4 short years after I purchased this thing for roughly $1,500 and it finally died on me. How.....why....I have no clue, but if I had spent that much money on a PC counterpart in 00' I would still be happily surfing away on windows XP with no problems. Let me tell you what all has gone wrong.
So I the day before I leave on vacation, I noticed the orange glow on my laptop from charging, I thought to myself, that's wierd, it should be fully charged. So I turn it on only to discover it wont charge, it was only holding power if I kept it plugged in. I start freaking out bigtime, first cuz I can barely swing this vacation as it is, secondly I bring my laptop with me every time I go on photoshoots (because I don't have alot of memory on my camera and have to upload to a hardrive) So here I am a day before leaving on a trip up to Sedona, Jerome, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon with no way of holding any more then 24 pictures, im freaking. So I improvise, and spend $35.00 at Best Buy and get a cigarette lighter converter for my car, so I can at least plug it in and upload in my vehicle. You would think this would work, and even though the mac was stable on power it still freaking crashed.
So im in Sedona Arizona......nothing around me, I go to upload my pics, the OS screen loads, and then bam....it shuts off. Im like wtf is going on, so I start it up again......this time however I see no OS, in fact the only thing my Mac does now is blink a folder, with a question mark, and back again....great, I lost my ****ing OS on a very important vacation....THANK YOU APPLE....Oh wait though, I shouldn't thank them, cuz when I got back home and called the all mighty elitist corporate headquarters, they offered me there lovely advice, and I quote 'Sir I see your laptop is out of warranty, if you would like to pay $49.95 for a 3 day tech support pass, I can do that for you.' I don't need to explain my response, all I know is I probably made the poor women cry after hanging up with me.
So now, my unorganized ass has been sifting through layers and layers of storage trying to find were I put my damn OS disks, with no avail.....ive seriously had it with Apple, every single one, and I am being completly serious here, cannot compare in speed to my shitty ass 1.7gig AMD processor (I was working on a brand spanking new dual G5 with OSX last week....slooooooow). And this is coming from someone, who at one point, actually liked Macs, and it seems there shoddy equipment has taken a toll on my purchasing decisions for the rest of my life.
So last year, after thinking about buying a new keyboard, I was informed my laptop would only sell for around $200.00, oh boy, what a ****ing investment that is!!!!!!!111111 So yeah, im going to take a huge crap, right on my keyboard, ill even put the brand new Airport right next to it, take a picture, put it on ebay for a penny, and go spam my ebay article to every damn Macintosh forum from here to China and back, and I hope it gets good press, cuz its worth every bit of shame it deserves.
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