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MBP bitches!
« on: 24 May 2006, 20:32 »
My latest Apple product arrived via FedEx this morning: a brand-spanking new MacBookPro.  15.4" widescreen (with the free gloss coat).  2GHz Intel Core Duo.  1GB RAM.

And would you believe I haven't even turned it on yet?  That's right, I spent so much time drooling over the package that I didn't have time to get her running.  Of course it isn't quite as awesome as the iPod box.  But it is still damn cool.  When are PC losers gonna catch on?  Every time I open a box sent to me from Apple, I damn near wet my pants.  It is painfully obvious that somebody went through a lot of time and trouble to make a really incredible first impression.  That's where the Apple (R) experience begins, and it doesn't end until you buy another one.

Now, some of you are saying (perhaps out loud!) something like "Fuck that, man, I'd rather spend $20 less and get a shitty boring cardboard box with a bunch of styrofoam peanuts in it".  And I suppose that's a valid complaint.  If you don't want the outside of the package to reflect the inside of the package, then whatever, get your next computer at Best Buy.  But know this: the packages from my iPod, my World Travel Adapter kit, and my MacBookPro get proudly displayed in my living room as art!  Total waste from all 3 products would fit in a sandwich bag.

I'll write some more tomorrow about the actual computer.  To be honest, I don't trust slot-load drives or widescreens.  And it will be my first experience with Tiger.  So there may be some negative then.  But so far, everything has been incredibly positive.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #1 on: 24 May 2006, 21:01 »
I probably shoulda kept my iPod packaging in tact, but at least I still have it's motherboard to show off as art.
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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #2 on: 25 May 2006, 04:29 »
Quote from: worker201
My latest Apple product arrived via FedEx this morning: a brand-spanking new MacBookPro. 15.4" widescreen (with the free gloss coat). 2GHz Intel Core Duo. 1GB RAM... That's right, I spent so much time drooling over the package that I didn't have time to get her running.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #3 on: 25 May 2006, 10:51 »
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Every time I open a box sent to me from Apple, I damn near wet my pants.

Yep, looks like someone really needs to get laid. ;)
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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #4 on: 25 May 2006, 12:24 »
Yo know MBP (МВР)
is the actual TLA for the Bulgarian "FBI"

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #5 on: 25 May 2006, 21:04 »
Update: damn, it's fast.

And Dashboard is pretty cool.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #6 on: 25 May 2006, 22:04 »
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To be honest, I don't trust slot-load drives or widescreens.

Yet you trust glossy screen coating? :p
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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #7 on: 26 May 2006, 21:14 »
Screen looks great.  Runs super-fast.

Now if I can just figure out why it keeps crashing when I connect it to the internet.  These unresolved kernel traps are starting to piss me off.

Code: [Select]
Thu May 25 23:22:36 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019CAEF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0xbcd3c39c, CR3: 0x00d41000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00403d40, EBX: 0x02385c00, ECX: 0x02385c00, EDX: 0x028f2fa9
ESP: 0xbcd3c39c, EBP: 0x13b73ce8, ESI: 0x02430a80, EDI: 0x02430980
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0xbcd3c39c, CS:  0x00000008, DS:  0x00490010

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x13b73b64 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbeb8 0x13b73b88 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x13b73ba4 : 0x19caef (0x3c1340 0x0 0xe 0x3c10f8)
0x13b73c54 : 0x197b53 (0x13b73c68 0x13b73ce8 0xbcd3c39c 0x2430048)
0x13b73c60 : 0xbcd3c39c (0x2430048 0x10 0x490010 0x490010)
0x13b73ce8 : 0x37840d (0x2430a80 0x13b73d70 0x2385c00 0x121a12)
0x13b73d68 : 0x3a247b (0x28f2fa9 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x13b73d98 : 0x189646 (0x2363728 0x28f2fa0 0x13b73dcc 0x11c970)
0x13b73dd8 : 0x12b389 (0x28f2f78 0x2b0cda4 0x0 0x0)
0x13b73e18 : 0x124902 (0x28f2f00 0x0 0x54 0x13b73efc)
0x13b73f28 : 0x192efc (0x13b73f54 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x13b73fd8 : 0x197fa6 (0x2465458 0x2465458 0x2385c00 0xbcd3c39c) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffac8

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar  7 16:55:45 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #8 on: 28 May 2006, 01:44 »
Quote from: worker201
Screen looks great.  Runs super-fast.

Now if I can just figure out why it keeps crashing when I connect it to the internet.  These unresolved kernel traps are starting to piss me off.


lol! All part of that Apple(R) Experience(tm), right?
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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #9 on: 28 May 2006, 01:55 »
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Screen looks great.  Runs super-fast.

Now if I can just figure out why it keeps crashing when I connect it to the internet.  These unresolved kernel traps are starting to piss me off.

"Mac OS X crashes when I connect to the Internet, but damn, the screen looks good, and the box too. Wow."

To tell you the truth, I didn't expect bullshit like this from Apple.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #10 on: 28 May 2006, 02:05 »
You can always install GNU/Linux ;)
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Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #11 on: 28 May 2006, 02:50 »
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You can always install GNU/Linux ;)

Or there's allways Boot Camp/Windows XP! ;)
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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #12 on: 28 May 2006, 04:08 »
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Or there's allways Boot Camp/Windows XP! ;)
I know where you live, so delete that post or our agents will be busy tonight :p
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a poem by my computer, Macintosh Vigilante
Macintosh amends a damned around the requested typewriter. Macintosh urges a scarce design. Macintosh postulates an autobiography. Macintosh tolls the solo variant. Why does a winter audience delay macintosh? The maker tosses macintosh. Beneath female suffers a double scum. How will a rat cube the heavier cricket? Macintosh calls a method. Can macintosh nest opposite the headache? Macintosh ties the wrong fairy. When can macintosh stem the land gang? Female aborts underneath macintosh. Inside macintosh waffles female. Next to macintosh worries a well.

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #13 on: 28 May 2006, 06:46 »
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I know where you live, so delete that post or our agents will be busy tonight :p

Is there a reason why you posted a link to Coffeeville Kansas?

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Re: MBP bitches!
« Reply #14 on: 28 May 2006, 13:34 »
ah yes "Coffeeville Kansas"
:) the center of the world :)