Showing posts with label Consumerism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumerism. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Waiting on a Macbook Air

I've talked myself into needing one. Just the entry-level one, despite them being 2 or 3 times more expensive than a notebook computer.

It's about weight, and in philipworld I'd use the Air to fabricate my blog, and things.

That there were a couple of 36 months interest free deals going on, and this is ike a red rag to a bull, at mearly a few dollars a month I could have the toy of the moment.

Except that they're not in stock, and I don't have one, and at the price they are I don't want to wait for one, I want instant gratification, I want it now, today, take home.

So I don't have one, but I did get a keyboard and a dock for the iPad, and today I'll get a magic mouse. perhaps.

After all I promised myself.


and then.............. I did some research, and whilst it's a ood plan, to use a mouse with an iPad it doesn't actually work. So to plan B then

Kathmandu how I'm annoyed at you

Daughter invested in a $450 khathmandu jacket, when I say she I mean "I".

It gets a lot of use on cold mornings, between games, and in the waiting around at hockey.

It also got a tear in the sleeve.

Now to their credit Kathmandu do make repairs, you take your stuff back to the shop and they send it back to the factory and lo! it returns as new.

except

After 10 days we get a call, it's been sent back unrepaired, the factory have deemed the jacket 'dirty'and would like it cleaned. This is despite the shop inspecting the jacket and making out a report that on the condition and the remedy we required.

Apparently not good enough. For both of us.