Apple oddities

Published at Sun 25 November, 2007 11:48 | Permalink Permalink | Comments Comments (2) | Trackbacks Trackbacks (0)

Just to report some oddities about Apple I stumbled upon today:

  • Portuguese Apple store oddities

Although I am very happy to finally see the opening of the Portuguese apple store online, I must say two things:

– WE ARE NOT SPANISH!!! Half of the store, including many product descriptions, are in pure plain Spanish. If it was Microsoft everyone would be talking. SHAME ON YOU APPLE!

– Today I went to the store trying to buy a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter (yes, you have to buy it separately). I was surprised when the product description said “free shipping” (in Portuguese). I didn’t look back, I really need the adapter! So I clicked in the product, it was added to my cart, and when I went to checkout I have a beautiful message “You have to buy another 81€ to have free shipping”. THEY LIED TO ME!! ARRRRRRRGHHHH…...

  • Mac OS Leopard

Now that the hype is settling, I decided that I should try Leopard, just to see if it was a good step forward. Unfortunately I work everyday with a Mac fan (you can’t imagine my suffering) that installed Leopard the first day it was out. He is having random problems like every day, it seems that the SO isn’t ready for production yet.

Then I just found this article.

So Vista seems a big disappointment for Microsoft. Is Leopard in the same situation for Apple?

(Linux! Linux! Linux!) :-)

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  1. avatar ambs.myopenid.com

    Although I agree with most of your complains, let me explain a little imprecision:

    “to buy a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter (yes, you have to buy it separately)”

    In fact, you do not need to buy it separately. You just need to buy the correct Mac. Everybody knows that people who work with standard MacBooks do not deserve to connect to an external monitor.

    Cheers

  2. avatar IncudE

    “So Vista seems a big disappointment for Microsoft. Is Leopard in the same situation for Apple?” I was thinking the same! Before the flames begin, let me say i´m a mac user, and just made the jump to leopard, i´m not a mac hater and not a mac fan boy either. Since i moved to leopard i´ve had problems with: 802.11x, cups printing, IMAP in Mail and folders not appearing in the desktop when sort by name is enabled. Some applications quit, which i suppose is due to lack of compatibility.

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