Following up with part 2 of the battery fiasco. I have not had any luck contacting FastMac by e-mail. There have not been any updates about the whereabouts of the replacement battery since my last post. FastMac hasn’t contacted me since writing part 2. I called FastMac today to see what’s going on. They actually answered! FastMac told me they are expecting a shipment in the first week(s) of September. The fellow that I spoke with said it could be as early as this week. I, for one, highly doubt it. We’ll give them the benifit of the doubt though. I know this post really is not anything more than a status update. I thought I would let you all know the status of the battery as of today.
Apple decided to share the matte goodness with the 15-inch MacBook Pro unibody. Before today the anti-glare matte finish was only available on the 17-inch MacBook Pro. The matte finish will cost you an extra $50 bones, to me it’s worth it.
I am finding it hard to resist a new unibody MacBook Pro now. My pre-unibody is still serving me well though, so I guess I shouldn’t jump on the uni right now. This is still good news to know, just in case that glossy finish was scaring you off. I know it scared me off!
Technically there’s not really a pt.1 to this post. For the sake of discussion we’ll refer to the review I posted on December 20th 2008 as part 1. I am having yet another issue with the FastMac batteries. In my review I praised FastMac for being very punctual and generally on the ball with everything.
After writing the review, some folks left comments expressing some concern about FastMac’s service. I defended FastMac at first. Sometimes one or two bad transactions happen. Now that I have done more research, my views have changed. The stories from the comments are starting to hit pretty close to home.
If you recall back in December 2008 when I wrote the review I just had a MacBook Pro battery replaced by FastMac because the one I had purchased in October of 2008 mysteriously died after only having it for two weeks. I thought at first the issue was due to me neglecting the battery while it sat on my desk with a 36% charge. Now I think that was not the case at all. I firmly believe it is due to the batteries being cheaply made. The reason I have changed my views are because I am currently in the process of replacing yet another FastMac Truepower battery. Read the rest of this entry »
While looking through pandora box for some new apps to try out I spotted the first Bluetooth app since the OS 3.0 release following is a screen cap from pandora box as I only have a first gen iPod Touch with no Bluetooth which I am authoring this from now.
This one of a kind Mac Mod utilizes all of the default electronics from a LEGO Mindstorms NXT set. Crammed into the iconic Apple Power Mac G4 Cube’s famous “8-inch” (acrylic) cube are a LEGO NXT programmable brick, 3 interactive servo motors and all 4 sensors: touch, sound, light, and ultrasonic.
This little quick tip will have you pulling images off of your iPhone and iPod touch so fast it’ll catch fire! This tip is for OS X only. I am going to show you the easiest way to download images off of your iPhone and iPod Touch without having the hassle of syncing.
This little quick tip will have you pulling images off of your iPhone and iPod touch so fast it’ll catch fire! This tip is for OS X only. I am going to show you the easiest way to download images off of your iPhone and iPod Touch without having the hassle of syncing.