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3Oct/060

KRZR on Sprint in November

I've been with Sprint for a while, and have had good phones and bad phones... but now I've just grown tired of carrying around the big Treo 650. I want a small phone. With my new job I don't need access to my email -- they provide me with a BlackBerry. But I want a phone that is not a total piece of crap, that is, I want a small phone and one that will sync with my computer so that I have all my contacts on the phone-- I'm not going to type them all in via the interface on the phone. Also, it has to have good reception, as Sprint (and almost all carriers) in West Philadelphia is sketchy at best. I expect to get calls to my cell phone in my house. Which is asking for a lot apparently, in Philadelphia.
I was very happy to read recently that the Motorola KRZR, the smaller version of the Razr is coming to Sprint in November. So I'll wait for that. The current crop of Sprint phones leave much to be desired. They are probably fine phones, if all you want to do is make calls with them- but try attaching a Sanyo or Samsung phone to a Macintosh. Those two have never made any effort to provide connectivity with your PC- Mac or XP. All the Motorola's have had built in USB (as least, all the RAZRS and KRZRS).

So I wait.

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3Oct/060

MacBook update- fixed in less than 24 hours

That was fast- The Apple store called me back on Sunday night and said the MacBook was ready for pickup. I got it Monday evening and so far its been ok- but of course I don't expect anything to happen for at least a month or so. It does seem to be running cooler, according to CoreDuoTemp (which is now 1.0 btw) but that could also be 10.4.8.

They replaced the keyboard, trackpad an the upper casing again, as it had already started to get dirty, I suppose I will just have to live with it getting darker this time.

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1Oct/060

MacBook: RSS – Random Shutdown Syndrome

My Macbook suffered from RSS over a month and a half ago. After taking it into the nearest Apple Store, I had to wait about four days to get the MB and heat-sink repaired. It went to the depo and was shipped back to me. About two weeks ago it began shutting down again. It's so hard to use a laptop that randomly shuts-down.

Back to the Ardmore, PA Apple store. This time however the Geniuses seemed to know about the problem and said they could fix it in house. I dropped it off Saturday at about noon and I got a call Sunday at 6pm- they had already fixed it and it was ready for pickup.

While I was at the Apple store I got a Mini to replace my single-cpu G5 PPC, which has been nearly unusable since I got my MacBook. The G5 will turn into more of a file-server and backup, the Mini is cool and very quiet. I had to go get 2G Ram and 160G hard-drive, but the cost is still comparable to a stock white MacBook. And no RSS.