The blog of Doug

Just got my grubby mits on a 16GB iPhone. One more step in my apple journey, spent over an hour in the O2 store waiting for the O2 guy to figure out how to add an additional handset to a business account but hey this is England. Customer service... they've heard of it.

Anyway the much hyped iPhone has suprised me, it is as good as the hype unbelievably. There are a few glitches here and there and until O2 manage to activate my new sim on their network I can't actually use the phone bit. Even so it's still amazed me, top marks to apple for this one.

Be onto AB for a new size iPod sock next :o)

Go for the iMac Bob, it's soft and cuddly and i'm sure it will cusion your fall (24" you know you want to..)

My move to almost completely Mac is nearly there, I am now typing this on a shiny new 24" iMac and it's awesome.

There is a lot of hype around Apple products and I can kind of see why. They have a very good design asthetic with both the hardware and software, everything is very integrated and it's all about the user experience. My favourite bit is unpacking them as even that is a design experience, then just plugging it in the the wall and you ready to go with plenty of handy stuff out of the box.

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As ever with this technology stuff it's a tricky business. I have been wanting to go all Mac for nearly a year now, so I have hopped on the apple marketing band wagon and wait with baited breath every Tuesday to see what new shiny toy will arrive. Even though I know it's marketing hype I still get a bit sucked in. Anyway this Tuesday had a refresh of Mac Books and Mac Book Pros, just what I have been after. Credit card out and job done :o) Ahh but here's the rub, this being technology it will be updated in the near future with faster / better / shinier etc. Apples current laptops are probably the last of this version (2-3 years old now). So it becomes a guessing game as to when a good time to buy is. Either you need it now to do a job or you can make do but be less productive / satisfied with the toy depending on work or home use of said gizmo. So this time the credit card has been saved, the laptop canceled and normality restored... For the moment till the next update in June which had better be a good un is all i'm going to impatiently say. Don't even start me on the HD Tv's....

The nerdiness gets greater, rapping about which is better... Mac or PC?

Having turned into an apple fan boy these days I had a couple of groovy toys turn up today. The first was apples latest and greatest operating system called Leopard. Very shiny box and for a change (comming from the microsoft world) it just installed and worked faster and better than the previous. Nice... Oh and the second toy was apples wireless router, this has just replaced 2 boxes and about 100ft of cable and once again kind of just works. Again nice. The weird thing about all of this is that I have become an apple fan boy and get all excited about new apple products even if I don't have any interest in buying them. I think it comes down to years of being a hardened PC user where it is unusual to a)have things work and b)have things work better than you expected. That and being a nerd obviously ;o)