I’m here. Really. Had a busy week in the office and my MacBook Pro -> MacBook Pro migration took far too long and felt a bit Windows-esque… including an OS reinstall. While the fanboys may want to blame this one on me, I had some serious high-powered former Apple employee assistance and it’s not user error.
Despite those frustrations, I also had my mom pick up a Mac Mini when her Compaq died… this also took some time to configure, though that has more to do with instructing her over the phone (an exercise in patience) followed by tedious tweaking, installs, etc via iChat screen sharing. During the process I decided she’ll be getting her first digital camera soon and if the Eye-Fi passes muster, she’ll be using it.
Like my pal Peter Rojas, I’m also drowning in unused gear. I got as far as listing just my Samsung Blackjack (now running Windows Mobile 6), before giving up and taking Guitar Hero III and the Toshiba HD DVD A3 player to an ebay consignment shop. Assuming the experiment goes well, I’ve got many more gadgets to bring them.
Which brings me to the next item that kept me busy over the weekend… We’ve made plans to relocate up the road in 6 weeks. Between the continual flood of gear and needing a better layout for the home office, it’s time for a new apartment. Once in, I’ll report on a vertical TiVo placement and how well Comcast migrates my CableCARDs.
Have you used iSold It in the past? Would you recommend them? The Gaithersburg store isn’t too far away from me and I have some things I’d like to get rid of.
Phil, first time! They end up with about 40% of an item’s final value to cover their commission and ebay fees, but it may be worth it to offload the selling and shipping process. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Wow,
Talk about keeping busy Dave. Any move can really eat up some time, but sounds like a positive change regardless.
Since you mentioned the Blackjack my wife’s Blackjack phone just stopped working for internet and sms so their replacing it. That happened before we were able to upgrade to WM6 too….
I’m assuming you’re liking the iPhone?
Mixed feelings on the iPhone… It’s a pretty good phone (though I’d like a faster way to navigate contacts) and it’s a great web browser, but the email application is lacking for power users – it shouldn’t take me four taps to get from my Yahoo Inbox to my Sling Inbox (compared to the one click on my Treo 750, which the iPhone replaced). There’s no question, however, that’s it’s sexy and the display is large and looks great – especially for (multi-) touch. Overall, I’d say I’m pretty happy.
You couldn’t pay me to look at the Blackjack given my recent experience with a WM5 Verizon Motorola Q… what a POS! In the midst of a switch to a Nokia E61i now, which so far is looking better, but too early to say (Symbian base). I’d love an iPhone if they had a way to do corporate email. We’ll see what happens over time…
Hope you get that HD DVD player sold soon… :-)