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Aw and I was hoping no one would tell him so we could all see it happen.

I had to get my girlfriend a job so she could afford to buy me a PowerMAC Book Pro and I couldn't believe how expensive it all was - I was gutted because I had to listen to her bitch about how much it cost and how hard she had to work for it and I'd better be a better boyfriend, blah, blah...

After I got home and sorted her out good, I realised that she hadn't bought me an IPOD!   I was fuming.   Imagine my horror when I saw that she paid Apple all that money for my PowerMAC Book Pro and then she had to buy me an IPOD.   It's not right, she should have bought me an IPOD and Apple should put that on the box. 

I told her that I wanted an IPOD or I was leaving her for GOOD.   Imagine my horror when I woke up and she was GONE and she had STOLEN my PowerMAC Book Pro that she bought me!   It's not right.   Apple should have put that on the box.

bedstuy wrote:

STEVE JOBS SELLS LEMONS

...to make lemonade!

jb wrote:

Will the relation to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act mean that it will be free for those outside of the US?

Probably not.

its actually 199¢, not 500¢

Blandford Fly wrote:

I had to get my girlfriend a job so she could afford to buy me a PowerMAC Book Pro and I couldn't believe how expensive it all was - I was gutted because I had to listen to her bitch about how much it cost and how hard she had to work for it and I'd better be a better boyfriend, blah, blah...

what in holy hell

rufio wrote:

Do you see where I'm going here? It's late, but I make sense to myself right now...

Makes sense to me.
People are complaining because they got hardware that is better than they paid for.
That's what doesn't make sense.

So you have to pay a few bucks to enable the feature. Whoopee.
If the feature is something you need, then you would be buying a MORE EXPENSIVE upgrade right now to take advantage of it had your hardware been exactly as described.

Personally I think this is a slick move -

Apple knows people would not have paid more for 802.11n when they shipped the product - just like almost no one paid for gigabit when Apple first started offering gigabit.

But it probably didn't cost Apple too much to just use the better part. So rather than adverise their hardware as 802.11n cauding confusion with people who thought it wouldn't work with their existing hardware (and I think n was not finalized yet) - they sold it as 802.11g which people are willing to pay for, and now that people know they have it already, Apple will be selling a bunch of airports.

People like to use what they already have - even if they didn't need it when they bought it. People don't like to buy what they don't need.

This was a slick move on Apple's part - I'm proud of them.

-=-

For those of you who are bitching - here's the solution:

Don't pay the $5.00 or whatever it is.
Problem solved - you still have exactly what you paid for.
When you move to 802.11n - feel free to shell out $50.00 for a card from someone else.

Last edited by resedit (2007-01-25 7:49 pm)

It'll be on every major torrent site within minutes of being available from Apple. And even if you do end up paying for it... its only $2. One less pack of gum.. wow.

Last edited by anton55x55 (2007-01-27 2:16 pm)

I mean on any P2P network. My point is that for those willing to risk viruses and cops being after them, the file will be available for free several minutes after it's announced. Ive seen many small files on torrent sites, by the way.

You're right, but that's not the point. I meant that it would be on Bittorrent and other P2P networks to be available to those not willing to pay the $2. If they simply put it on a website their chance of having Apple's lawyers after them would go from 0.2% to 99.9%.

Donkey Butter wrote:

I'm not saying you should download it as that would be wrong, but just see if it's there.

Hahaha typical "avoiding having the cops on my ass" phrase.

I'm not saying you should download it as that would be wrong, but just see if it's there.

I don't see anything wrong with downloading it from anywhere. Its a software update to hardware you purchased.

So what if they never advertised the hardware was capable of more when they sold it  to you? I flashed the firmware on a Linksys WRT54G V2 with 3rd party firmware that allows the router to do far more than linksys advertised, was that wrong?