@Mark Wilson: With a timeframe? You bet. If I had made a one year bet two years ago when the vaportablet was first rumored with every mac-tard on earth, I'd be a billionaire by now.
@Mark Wilson: I'll take some of that action. Read what he said, "Bordering on ficticious". This is a product that is not confirmed to exist by anyone who can be said to know for sure. A million rumours do not make a product real.
@Steve Schmitz: if you want a good laugh, search for #appletablet here on Giz. 58 articles over 2 years ( I assume there are more not tagged as the first is a photoshop contest).
I'm sorry Mark but corporate whisperings and unofficial concept images make for a pretty insubstantial product. While it's incredibly likely that this is going to happen it's still a way off.
I mean you only have to look through the Apple tablet articles on Gizmodo to see that it's nothing more than a swirling cloud of rumour and anticipation. The most we have from Apple about it is a very vague patent.
I mean to quote another article on Giz:
"We still don't know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really"
It's probably not fictitious but it is damn well toeing that line. It's just silly how many articles are posted if someone even breathes the words "Apple Tablet". The hype is just getting ridiculous.
@Kaiser-Machead: i disagree...MBPs rely so much on passive heat dissipation and the air gaps below the chiclets.. Any increase in surface area is a plus and i guess that product is for those who otherwise would have it closed while docked. That's bad juju, imo.
I bought my MBP in the summer, and I don't regret it at all. It's a fantastic machine with superb battery life. If you don't currently have a proper computer to hold you over for the next few months, just get it now. You won't regret it. Don't fall for the same nonsense the bleeding edge people do.
@Kaiser-Machead: If your iffy about the price of the machines you can get great deals in the refurbished lines. Just go to the store link and you will find the refurbs in the lower left. My first laptop was a Powerbook g4 that I bought in 2004 and I got almost 6 years out of it (just got a new MBP about a month ago)
I purchased a set of H/K soundsticks, and I'm sure they sound way way better than this setup for not much more (I paid just $20 more than this). Apple's site lists them for $169, but they can be had new for a great deal cheaper if you shop around.
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.
I've read stories like this before having to do with paintball products, where the product is designed, built, and sold by single individuals that usually end up appearing to have been technically smart and clever at one time but are clearly mentally unstable in one way or another. I bought a product from one guy that was well-made and fit my needs perfectly, but later saw that he was doing work on other people's paintball guns using dental floss and JB Weld, and he'd swear up and down that anyone who questioned him wasn't intelligent enough to understand materials and design. #macpadd
@Jeb_Hoge: We agree. We run into psycho individual business owners all the time.
We think the reason is they have good ideas, but really can't work for or work with anyone else. All is well when things are working, but ask them to handle a customer call and all hell breaks loose.
However, some of them do put out interesting products.... #macpadd
@RainyDayInterns: Yep. And then when you get a case like this where Tom's Hardware or cases like ones I saw where 3-4 (or more) complainants team up, research, and expose the loonies, it's quite a show. #macpadd
After reading the Tom's Hardware article, I noticed "PayPal indicated that there was no guarantee that we would get our money back, but that it would try to help."
Bullshit. If a Paypal rep tells you some crap like that, you ask to speak to another, preferably higher up dispute agent. They have to give you the money back. There's no ifs ands or buts about it. I've had people do this to me before, and I've always gotten my money back. There's no way that the seller can KEEP your money. Paypal reimburses you, and they take the funds from the seller's account and puts him or her in the negative if their balance was previously zero, and then it's all their problem from then on afterwards. If the seller cannot provide proof of the item being sent, they lose the dispute and are left holding the well-deserved bag.
@Kaiser-Machead: How true it is. I used to sell a bunch of stuff on eBay. One of my items didn't arrive to the buyer and paypal totally debited my account and put me negative before I even had a chance to get informed by anyone about what was happening. Since then I've had a general Effe the USPS attitude as they have lost too many packages and cost me too much money. But yeah, paypal will totally refund you regardless of whether or not the seller has anything in their account, unless the seller can confirm with a tracking number that the package arrived at your doorstep. Proof of shipping it is not good enough, it has to be proven to have arrived. Awesome policy for buyers, sucks to be a seller in this situation. Especially since you don't get tracking numbers with most USPS shipments unless you go express or some such shenanigans. So as a buyer if you get something without a tracking number it is fair game for you to call up paypal and say you never got it, no one can prove you wrong. #macpadd
@Justin Paulson: I also sell things on ebay, and I agree it's a rotten deal for seller protection.
My most recent sale was for a $100+ diecast model to someone claiming the item to be in Seattle. I made sure to ship with a tracking number express, and the item arrived a couple of days later. A month later, I received an email that a dispute was raised on paypal, claiming that the item did not arrive as described. Suspicious, I called the paypal resolution center and asked that the buyer's location be determined so that I know why the dispute was raised so long after the actual arrival. Turns out the buyer was in Singapore, and took advantage of my much cheaper shipping between NYC and Seattle to cut down the cost of shipment, and had a contact there send it the rest of the way. That right there absolved me from any responsibility and I was reimbursed. People think they're slick. lol
The thing that bothers me is that had the person actually been in Seattle, I would've had a much harder time, and it turns out that Paypal allows a buyer 45 days to file a dispute, which I think is crap. That's a long time to sit on an item to file a dispute.
@Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, I'm done with eBay, I've had way too many experiences with bad buyers and the lack of ability to give negative buyer feedback coupled with ever increasing rates coupled with paypal reporting to the IRS next year have turned me off to it for good. #macpadd
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I kinda want to just give you a hug and tell you it's going to be O.K.
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I'm sorry Mark but corporate whisperings and unofficial concept images make for a pretty insubstantial product. While it's incredibly likely that this is going to happen it's still a way off.
I mean you only have to look through the Apple tablet articles on Gizmodo to see that it's nothing more than a swirling cloud of rumour and anticipation. The most we have from Apple about it is a very vague patent.
I mean to quote another article on Giz:
"We still don't know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really"
It's probably not fictitious but it is damn well toeing that line. It's just silly how many articles are posted if someone even breathes the words "Apple Tablet". The hype is just getting ridiculous.
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Duke Nukem Forever for everyone!!!
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Here's a good gift for any Mac user.
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#tips
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Trademark infringements aside, I'm not mad at this thing.
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We think the reason is they have good ideas, but really can't work for or work with anyone else. All is well when things are working, but ask them to handle a customer call and all hell breaks loose.
However, some of them do put out interesting products.... #macpadd
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Bullshit. If a Paypal rep tells you some crap like that, you ask to speak to another, preferably higher up dispute agent. They have to give you the money back. There's no ifs ands or buts about it. I've had people do this to me before, and I've always gotten my money back. There's no way that the seller can KEEP your money. Paypal reimburses you, and they take the funds from the seller's account and puts him or her in the negative if their balance was previously zero, and then it's all their problem from then on afterwards. If the seller cannot provide proof of the item being sent, they lose the dispute and are left holding the well-deserved bag.
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My most recent sale was for a $100+ diecast model to someone claiming the item to be in Seattle. I made sure to ship with a tracking number express, and the item arrived a couple of days later. A month later, I received an email that a dispute was raised on paypal, claiming that the item did not arrive as described. Suspicious, I called the paypal resolution center and asked that the buyer's location be determined so that I know why the dispute was raised so long after the actual arrival. Turns out the buyer was in Singapore, and took advantage of my much cheaper shipping between NYC and Seattle to cut down the cost of shipment, and had a contact there send it the rest of the way. That right there absolved me from any responsibility and I was reimbursed. People think they're slick. lol
The thing that bothers me is that had the person actually been in Seattle, I would've had a much harder time, and it turns out that Paypal allows a buyer 45 days to file a dispute, which I think is crap. That's a long time to sit on an item to file a dispute.
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