Hope all of you boys & girls had a nice Christmas.

Can't wait to play with my toys.

 

It looks like a Toys R Us blew up all over our living room and we still have to go to my parents house tomorrow It has been fun watching Lil' B.A.D. open all of his gifts.

 

Nothing better than watching a little guy & the magic of Christmas.

 

Did Santa bring you a new D700 Chuck? I only got gun and motorcycle stuff (my latest avocations) Soninlaw is just getting into serious photography (Canon DSLR of course) and he was like a little kid with the filters and flash accessories he received. Not quite the same as having small kids, but close.

BTW, he wrecked their triple black MC and they have been using our X3 in Cleveland where they now live. They said we wont be seeing the X3 until spring!

 

No D700 for me. I'm hoping for a D300 for my B day.

Our boy got a new Fender (guitar) & played sweet music for us.

Glad that no one was injured in the MC wreck. Heck it's only a car & can be fixed.

 

Merry Christmas everybody. Jill and I went crazy and got a MacBook it is hella sweet, once you figure out how Apple computers work

 

I picked one of them up 2 months ago then Carol got jealous so got her one too. All Mac family now. Very intuitive and easy to use.

 

Welcome to the light side!!

 

Hurrah for Apple. I got an iMac last Sept... love it. Christmas brought a iPod touch.

 

Feh. I have an Air and they're SMALL and all, but don't match the hype. I just finally had to pull Rockbox off my iPod 30GB so I could use a dedicated Bose speaker dock... iTunes is... weird. Not as bad as I feared though.

Still, my Dell can eat it's lunch.

 

merry christmas!...late

Just found this part of the forums. thought id say hey..

 

Hey back at ya....

I had some apple pie for lunch. Mmmm yummy!

 

Figured since I missed the "allowed" time for a Merry Christmas, I'd send an early Happy New Year!!

(o, and any time you want to have that MacBook Air disappear Matt...just send me a PM and I can find someone to "take care of it" for you )

 

I'd actually consider swapping it for a similar-sized PC or even a MacBook... if you want a deal I'd be open to negotiations.

 

do they even make a pc that "similar sized" ? lol Ive got one of those HP DV6500 special edition notebooks and its one of the thinnest i looked at

 

Probably not QUITE as small, thinness-wise, but I'd be OK with that. the AIr is super thin and light, it's true, and the metal case is cool... I'm just not a Mac guy. I keep running into BS like remote hard drives that it tells me need to be reformatted and whatnot, and the constant hasle is wearing on me I'm afraid.

 

That's not a normal Mac thing to have happening Matt. You shouldn't get those kind of messages. I've got all kinds of hard drives and I never get told to re-format.

 

I've got one external hard drive that it won't even recognize (Win Vista has no issues) and a second that can read from the drive but not write TO that drive. the "geniuses" at the Mac store said that they needed to be reformatted (for whatever that's worth). People on Mac forums are no help - their stock answer is that "hard drives made for PCs are obviously peices of junk" and I'm advised to buy a Mac-brand hard drive (which, of course, costs 50% more than a similar device for a PC). Don't even get me STARTED on the whole cult of personality that you have to deal with any time you have to go into the Mac store with a question or even a HINT of any question that disparages their Beloved Brand... ((( shakes head )))

PCs certainly aren't perfect, but at least they're not perceived to be anything more than machines.

OK, I'll end the thread-jack - anyone who wants to talk turkey on a barely-used Air PM me. I will say that it's GREAT for watching films on the airplane on trips... provided you rip your DVDs to the hard drive first.

 

Great we find out right after we get a Mac that you want to get rid of one :(

Just joking I used to not feel the love, but someone slipped me the kool aid I now thing non-macers are lame

 

If you just got yours then the return policy should still be in effect (hint hint). And since Mac's so famed for their customer service they should be more than willing to waive that restocking fee, right? (( cough cough )).

 

What forum says that hard drives are for Mac only? That's goofy info. Firewire is firewire, USB is USB, SATA is SATA. The only difference is when you format the drive to your particular OS. And if I get a USB drive at say Best Buy, it's not 50% more if I use it on my Mac. Mac brand hard drive? Was this a forum from 1993 talking about SCSI drives?
Any drive I own in 2008 will work with a Mac or PC, but when I buy one to use with my computer I format it to my OS. That just kinda I don't know, makes sense. What makes you think automatically that a Vista formatted drive should work flawlessly with the Mac OS? I wouldn't think a Mac formatted drive would work flawlessly with Vista.

Yeah some Macheads are cultish but I get some of the same responses, looks and disparaging comments from PC people about Macs.

((( shakes head )))

 

Oh boy PC vs MAC & MAC vs PC.

((laughing out loud))

I have no preference. What flavor is the cool aide?

 

I personally couldn't give a rats pa-toot about who uses what, but bad info is bad info.

 

I was watching a program about bizarre foods yesterday & I think rats pat-toot was something they ate in Thailand.

 

ImagoX,

what size screen is it? Ill PM you if your interested in a basically mint HP DV6500 special edition in white (not black) 32bit/3GB RAM/1.67GHz Core2Duo/ect....

heck Christmas is over right lol... /thread