What did you engrave on your iPod?

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Trouble with Airport Extreme

I picked up the AirPort Extreme Base Station with Gigabit Ethernet and the wireless Mighty Mouse from the Apple stores with their “just ok” Black Friday sales.

I have experienced a lot of connection drops with the Airport extreme. The thing keeps dropping the wireless connections at random frequent intervals, rendering it useless. I had to reset and reconfigured it for it to pick up again. Also, the Airport Utility cannot always find the base station. When that happens, time for a reset.

I was hoping to replace the DI-524, but I guess that has to wait a little longer until Apple has either a firmware or hardware fix. This piece of junk is going back to Apple. Disappointed.

On another hand, the mouse works pretty well with the Macbook.

My new Macbook so far

I ordered a white Santa Rosa white Macbook (comes with Leopard at 2.2GHz) from Amazon with $75 rebate and it took them a week to begin shipping on 11/19, but it arrived on 11/21, just in time for me to explore it over the Thanksgiving break.

Here’s what I think: So far so good. This is my first Mac, as well as my first Apple product I am happy that Amazon puts the Macbook in another brown box so that my Macbook box does not look trashy when it arrived. So kudos to Amazon. They are really a great place to shop at, as well as Newegg.

The box opening experience was cool but not spectacular. I have taken some pictures during the process. When I took the Macbook out, I got excited and was mad at myself putting my own fingerprints on it…LOL

Turned it on, saw the Apple logo, arrived at the Select Language screen. That’s it. I was not going to take anymore pictures to ruin my experience.

During the initial setup process, I heard the fan came on very loud several times and I was like: Shit, is my Macbook going to be this loud when I do anything. Fortunately, that goes away once the setup process is over with.

The display is beautiful and I had no problems with the glossy screen. When the display is turned off, it is glossy that you can see a reflection of yourself, but once you turn it on, it feels just like a regular LCD display, only brighter and sharper.

I am learning a lot of keyboard shortcuts and installed some applications, but there’s just a lot more stuff to explore with. So far so good.