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    Image of SysRq SysRq
    11:01 AM

    In reply to These Apple Black Friday Deals Look Way More Like the Real Thing
    Oh, this is so not fair. Please don't make me buy a Magic Mouse, Apple. Really, please don't.
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    11:00 AM

    In reply to The Dumb iPhone Who Thinks It's a MacBook
    Does it run Mac OS 9?
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    10:55 AM

    In reply to The Dumb iPhone Who Thinks It's a MacBook
    I'm sorry but am I the only one here that actually likes the design? Granted it's a bit dated however I think this would have fit with Apple's lineup in the early 21st century.
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    09:22 AM

    In reply to The Apple Inbox
    If I had a mailbox like this, I'd have to rig it to say "Hi, I'm a Mac!" whenever it was opened.

    Then I'd sell it.
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    Image of Joe Stoner Joe Stoner
    08:08 AM

    In reply to The Apple Inbox
    Does anybody else want to attach three more newspaper holders and make the command sign?
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    11/22/09

    In reply to Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available
    I'm just waiting for the stories about this thing giving carpal or tendonitis to users. I've already heard from one early adopter who's given up on it because it's killing his wrist and forearm.
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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/22/09

    In reply to Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
    "We want you to buy a new computer and don't want to fix your old one so here's a convenient lame excuse so you stop bothering us".
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/22/09

    In reply to Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
    If the smoking has actually damaged the computer, then I see no problem with denying warranty coverage.

    But denying warranty coverage because of OSHA is BS. OSHA is between Apple and its employees, and is not an excuse for Apple (or any other company) to violate its agreements with its customers. There are ways of upholding the warranty without violating OSHA (appropriate PPE or hardware replacement). You don't get to back out on legal agreements because it's too much hassle.
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    Image of stevewoz stevewoz
    11/21/09

    In reply to Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?
    It would be surprising to have a camera without video, and video implies a microphone. VoIP anyone?
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/21/09

    In reply to Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?
    And damn, just as I've apparently convinced myself to get the Touch, rumors of next one come. Time to stuff that money back into the bank.
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    11/21/09

    In reply to Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
    I was not denied support because I was a smoker.

    Like an idiot, I kept an ashtray right under my iMac. The smoke of course rose up into the iMac and created a haze in the upper left hand corner of the screen. And one of my fans was started running at about half as fast as it should have been. So I didn't put two and two together (for some unknown reason) and took it to a Genius.

    His first question was, "Do you smoke in front of your iMac?" And I told him yes, I'm an idiot, and was expecting to pay them clean and fix my fan. BUT they replaced my fan free of charge and cleaned my screen. No complaints here.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/21/09

    In reply to Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?
    It's also going to have pictures of Jobs' genitals. Just a little FYI to help with your buying decision.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: A Job's lemonparty or goatse?
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/21/09

    In reply to Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
    Can you turn down people for being booger pickers? I'd hate to handle a computer of a booger picker, that would be gross.
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    Image of OfficerMike OfficerMike
    11/22/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: Fortunately, some of us booger pickers do our own repairs.
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    Image of dagamer34 dagamer34
    11/21/09

    In reply to Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring?
    Update in Feb. You heard it here first.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/21/09

    In reply to Apple Denying Support to Smokers?
    WTF is everyone talking about? I used to smoke once upon a time and only "effect" I ever saw on my computer was that the CRT screen got nasty because the static charge attracted smoke, just like it attracts dust. As far as the inside of the machine went, it didn't look any different than any other machine I've owned since then in my "non-smoking" rebirth. All computers used for any length of time are likely to need a vacuum anyway.

    Fix the effing machine. Some jerk off wants to pass the job to someone else 'cos it smells bad, have at it, but someone better fix it. If it was my computer, bet your butt I'd be hauling Apple into small claims court for denying warranty coverage. Christ, *biohazard*? With all the other toxic crap inside the computer? You have to be kidding me. You might as well not service computers owned by people with cats 'cos those cat hairs and cat dander get sucked up into the machine and some people are allergic to it.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09


    @AmphetamineCrown:
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards: @Gary Chaing: I still don't buy it. I used to smoke a pack a day and my IDE cables didn't change color. Nor did my computer look anything like that picture, which looks like a computer operated in an asbestos factory or something.

    B'sides, I thought smoking was part of that hipster culture Apple marketed too...
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: Oh I agree with the cigarette smoking Apple hipster culture. In fact I said something to that effect, but less explicit earlier.

    I was just giving an example of what can happen at an extreme. I tend to agree with most everyone else that Apple is being pedantic about this. I doubt that the case was extreme like that. If it was, I could understand Apple, but otherwise I think it's just them being afraid to touch something because it's ''icky''.
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Amen. They just have to grow a pair and stick the vacuum in there. I've cleaned far worse than that--meconium off a newborn and shoveling cat shit out of a reno job come to mind. If want to keep your hands lily white, educate your ass out of that job strata. The number of people that have to deal with far nastier crap has no end.
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    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards: do you have 237 cats? My God! funny!!!
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09

    @STFU_FPU!: Dude, quit being an asshole, it doesn't win you points.
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    Image of alek2407 alek2407
    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards:

    I can make sure to you that here in sanfrancisco/bayarea/silicon valley (apple central) smoking (cigeratts at least) is very un-hip and totally not cool,
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09

    @alek2407: I'm in Seattle, was in Texas, and am from southern California. In all of those place, smoking is very much a part of the hipster culture. San Francisco tends to be very different though, haha.
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    Image of captain.obvious captain.obvious
    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Maybe in the 80s, dude. Not anymore. (Santa Monica here)
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/21/09

    @captain.obvious: Orange County, LA area for me and, as of last year, it still was a strong part of it there.
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/21/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Instead, over here, we've got SMUG! ;-)
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    Image of STFU_FPU! STFU_FPU!
    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I'm not looking for any points, I'm making one. Peoiple need to take action on their own actions and quit blaming the smokers here, hell I smoke 3-5 a day (not too many and it pisses me off some of the comments towards smokers here. Try the health nuts with all their litter and water bottles! TONS of it and in our oceans too!
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    11/22/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Weird. I can't think of anyone hip that believes smoking is anything but disgusting. Seriously, outside of old school rockabillies and 14 year old girls, nobody does it. Thankfully!
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    11/22/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: The last computer I had worked on from a smokers house had globs of tar in it. It had actually died from the residue shorting out the power supply. I didn't believe that could happen until I saw it in person.
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