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...Well, it's not exactly my dream job, because doing retail during the Christmas shopping season isn't exactly a career that I'd like to pursue for my entire life.
But then, when you factor in that I'm going to be working for Apple Computer at their newly-opened store in the Christiana Mall, that's about as good as it gets for a Mac geek like me! This is the kind of job that I can actually enjoy. No more lame bagel shop or receptionist desk for me!
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Hint: on Boxing Day you will get a lot of irate PC owners who've found out their new iPods (with For MAC and PC in large letters on the box) don't actually come with a USB cable. Last year I think I got about the last one left in Bristol.
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Isn't that an American tradition of re-wrapping gifts to give out to relatives that you don't like/love/use?
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I thought it was the day you went about boxing the ears of people you don't lke, making a day for it makes it legal once a year....
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Congratulations, MM. I do hope you'll properly exploit your employee discount. Will you be working at the Genius Bar? Also do they have a "Mac Geek" T-shirt anymore? Whenever I wear mine while shopping, someone invariably approaches me thinking I work there. I tend to help them anyway.
My dad called me this morning to say he was looking at the new Fry's ad and was thinking of going down and finally getting that iMac G5 (He's had to re-install Windows on his machine two or three times over the last couple months). I told him that the Apple Store's price was only a teensy bit more and the service he'd get there would definitely be worth it. (They'll probably wind up exploiting Mom's educator's discount.)
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I never understand how some people end up reinstalling Windows once a month. If they hacked systems for a living, sure, but normal people who aren't idiots? Don't get it.
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Balaam: I'm "only" going to be a Mac Specialist (translation: floor salesman) for the time being. I do have some experience with troubleshooting Macs, but I don't think I'd be comfortable with that being my entire job (not just yet, anyway).
And yeah, I most definitely plan on taking advantage of the employee discount -- I get a 25% deduction for one purchase of a complete system each year! And seeing as how my current iBook (an ancient but reliable G3/600) is now three years old, I'm going to be upgrading to a top-of-the-line 15" PowerBook as soon as I've got sufficient funds!
(Actually, who knows? MacWorld is coming up in only two months... if I'm lucky, Steve will be announcing PowerBook G5's in January and I can finally have a system that beats out my dad's.)
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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: Hint: on Boxing Day you will get a lot of irate PC owners who've found out their new iPods (with For MAC and PC in large letters on the box) don't actually come with a USB cable. Last year I think I got about the last one left in Bristol.
Mine came with both a USB and a Firewire cable...
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Well, mine didn't. And judging by the number of people trying to buy USB cables for iPods the day after Christmas, neither did anyone else's. Maybe they've changed it since then, although doing something that made sense would be a first for Apple.
quote:Originally posted by Lee: Maybe they've changed it since then, although doing something that made sense would be a first for Apple.
Does that mean you don't consider designing and marketing the world's most popular digital music player to be "something that made sense"?
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"He's had to re-install Windows on his machine two or three times..."
"...he was looking at the new Fry's ad and was thinking of going down and finally getting that iMac G5"
TRUE STORY: my car ran two flat tires in a row once, and I got so mad I pushed it to the scrapheap with my bare hands and went out and bought this really overpriced truck with wheels of steel the next day so I would never again have to relive the horror of replacing a tire ALL BY MYSELF IN THE STREAMING RAIN, only then I found out my new truck was barred from public roads and that I had spent my life savings for nothing. Then I got even madder.
Then I learnt I could drive around spikey obstacles instead of over them, and I got really mad.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I never understand how some people end up reinstalling Windows once a month. If they hacked systems for a living, sure, but normal people who aren't idiots? Don't get it.
I'm going to trust that you aren't intimating that my father is an idiot, Liam. This is the man who wire-wrapped all the (literal) bread-board components of the first computer I ever used. He programmed some early SC/MP tic-tac-toe games (in assembly code on the freakin' teletype). A fault may have been he was a little too trusting and perhaps as a result of his earlier experience, perhaps not as interested in the nuts and bolts of the inner-workings of his latest machine. He had been using IE more or less exclusively until very recently. Also AOL. The re-installs were at the insistence of tech-support from Intego, McAffe, AOL and the TurboTax guys. Basically any time he tried upgrading his software his Dell machine started giving him major hassle. I don't understand it. I never had as many issues with my PC they way he and my mother did. But then I don't think it makes you an idiot to want things to work properly and to assume that when you download an upgrade, that it will make your computer work better instead of, say, worse. He's gonna like that 20" iMac G5.
Powerbook G5. W0ot! I just hope they will have worked out some better heat dissipation. Even my Pismo G3/400 can get uncomfortably hot without proper ventilation. But, so, yeah, it's time to upgrade.
Congratulations again on the job. Finally you'll get paid for your Mac evangelism!
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They just don't get it, do they? The point isn't that they made a digital music player that works well and is really nicely-designed. The point is that a large proportion of the many millions of poeple who bought them got them home, opened them up, and found to their disbelief that despite the large letters saying For MAC and PC on the box, there was no way to connect it to a PC without going out and buying an extra cable.
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Mine came with both a USB and a Firewire cable...
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