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Some Powerbook users had reported that the keyboard of their Powerbooks are easily marked with finger printed filth.
After about half a year of daily use, my Powerbook keyboard is pristine clean, and I have only wiped it slightly once all these time. To those owners, may I suggest… less booger mining, less smoking, and more hand washing.
With the recent argument between the music industry and Apple on the pricing of individual songs selling in the iTunes music Store, here is my view…
Edgar Bronfan was right in that “not all songs are created equal” so not all songs should have the same price. Although I have yet to purchase any songs electronically and that all the songs in my iTunes Library are my own legit copy from purchased legit CDs, I have considered buying a few songs and I am still looking for the ones I want to buy. IMO, US$0.99 for the song that I like and want to buy is reasonable, and I may also consider buying a few others that are not so well known to me should their prices be less. iTunes Music Store is great for me for I can audition a portion of each and every song in a record before I consider buying in the comfort of my own home. For the songs and record that I like, I may even have several different version of the same CD such as a normal version and a XRCD version and perhaps a DVD as well. So I could get the best recorded quality possible or a visual entertainment.
Should the pricing of “eSongs” be any higher, while the quality remains around a mediocre 128kbps bitrate and not WAV or Apple Lossless, I’ll just stick to buying a few much better recorded CDs each year or even longer instead of purchasing electronically.
Anyone who has been Googling anything about the iPod nano would probably have already noticed there are many complaints about how easy it is to have scratched the delicate soft clear surface of the nano. In fact, it is so easily scratched that even if you put it in a soft gel case the dust that is trapped in between the case and the nano could scratch it.
Lucky for me, I figured it would be easily scratched even before I read any of these news and before mine was delivered. So the first thing I did upon unrapping the nano, I had it polished several coats of Nu Finish Car Polish paint sealant and custom cut the clear rapper that came with every new nano before I could fine anything better to protect it. Thanks to my friend from Vancouver who bought me the Nu Finish.
Even then, two days later, when I found some custom fitted clear plastic skin adhesive like those for protecting cell phone and digital camera screens and those gel case, the salesman who was trying to stick the adhesive skin to it already found a couple of spots. That is how I know if I had just bought the gel case alone, any lint or dust that is trapped in between could scratch the nano after light use.
So, my total defense against scratches are as follow… 3 coats of Nu Finish, a plastic skin, 3 more coats of Nu Finish, and a gel case. Why the Nu Finish on the plastic skin? ‘Cause the skin costs HKD$140 a set of front and back skin! S! iPodding is one money sucking experience.
BTW, about the gel case, the exact same gel case with the same packaging and everything, ranged from HKD$58-HKD$168! Yes, a street market HKD$5 cell phone gel case with that kinda sickening markups. And that’s all on the same floor of a computer shopping mall! The bookstand at the front door of the same computer mall sells it for HKD$68. And today, I found one shop in another computer shopping mall in another area that has none but just 2 colors of the same gel case for HKD$48. I’d expect the street market would soon have them for HKD$20 or even less.
Yeah, yeah, I know… get the Shuffle and forget the rest. I’d be constantly swapping songs and I would have no way for selecting the Podcast I wanted to listen to though.
WhaUSay?!