Today is a great day for technology (Apple & Dell suck)

[Asher]

The day started off dandy: I turn on my dad's 4 month old Dell XPS 600 -- the monitor never displays, the fans crank up to full speed and I smell the dreaded electronics burning. It's a faulty PS that fried the motherboard. The best part? Dell says 8-15 business days to get it fixed. Right on, boys, right on.

Then I go to school and come back, and my mom's 4-day old iPod nano isn't working. The songs will repeat the first 2-3 seconds of most of the songs about six times, then play normally...WTF? As the computer she syncs with is out of service (see the first paragraph), I hooked it up to my computer to update the firmware from 1.1 to 1.2. That was successful, but a simple UPDATE to the iPod Updater seemed to think I meant to RESTORE. It nuked all of the songs on the iPod. It seems all ****ed up. So now I go to actually restore it, eg reformat it...when I do this, I'm informed: "iPod Manager Internal Error" and that's all. Right on, boys, right on. I love the detail and usefulness.

So now my mom's all pissy because her new iPod is ****ed, and my dad's all pissy because his new Dell is ****ed.

Mainstream computer companies -- WTF?

[MRT144]

and im pissy because your life is nothing but technology and groupsex

[Asher]

Life is good when you mix them both -- eg, using a blackberry while pounding your neighbor in the ass and watching high-def porn in the home theatre.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by MRT144
and im pissy because your life is nothing but technology and groupsex

You'd kill to have a life of all technology and group sex.

[Asher]

I have an hour and a half technical interview with financial software developers from New York tomorrow.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by notyoueither


You'd kill to have a life of all technology and group sex.

only if its using technology in the act of groupsex.

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Asher
I have an hour and a half technical interview with financial software developers from New York tomorrow.

What a good times to discuss about technology and groupsex!
Have fun and good luck!

[Datajack Franit]

Originally posted by MRT144
and im pissy because your life is nothing but technology and groupsex

You make it sound like a bad thing

[MarkG]

Re: Today is a great day for technology (Apple & Dell suck)

Originally posted by Asher
Dell says 8-15 business days to get it fixed. Right on, boys, right on.

It's Steve Jobs punishing you for posting stuff like

Originally posted by Asher
Does Apple have same-day in-house service that comes with the equivalent Dell?

[Dinner]

Asher you seem to have a problem with electronics. Isn't this the second Ipod which has wiped out the songs from the hard drive?

I'm thinking you must be doing something wrong since this is your second time doing this. Also I've never had a problem with my Dell and I'm very happy with it.

[Datajack Franit]

Ipods are supposed to be used on the surface of the body

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Asher you seem to have a problem with electronics. Isn't this the second Ipod which has wiped out the songs from the hard drive?

I'm thinking you must be doing something wrong since this is your second time doing this. Also I've never had a problem with my Dell and I'm very happy with it.

The thing got wiped during a simple "Update" (NOT a restore). It's a single button push.

Look at the ipodlounge forums, it's not a rare occurance. Apple has retards for developers.

[MarkG]

why on earth did you buy apple in the first place?

[Asher]

I bought an iPod because at the time it seemed to be the best MP3 player available. It was a terrible mistake:

In addition to the problems I've had with the HD corrupting itself, I've had the following problems:
- When you choose a new song you gotta wait 10 seconds before turning it off...
- One out of every five or so songs played will not play, and instead the iPod will pause for 5 seconds while loading the album art, then skip to the next song...when I hit "back", it works
- The battery life on my 5G iPod w/ video (30GB) is realistically around the 4 hour mark right now. Really pathetic.
- Scratches incredibly easily
- If I plug the iPod into my computer without being logged into Windows (but the computer is on...eg, locked the workstation), it will delete my On The Go playlist (last time it was 99 songs long )

[notyoueither]

Re: Re: Today is a great day for technology (Apple & Dell suck)

Originally posted by MarkG
It's Steve Jobs punishing you for posting stuff like