This has absolutely nothing to do with the Bible and everything to do with my Apple products love/hate relationship. I?ve spoken about this in the past to my geek friends and now will do so here. I truly love Apple, but sometimes, in the midst of crisis, I loathe them.
Put down the stones, fellow Mac-users. The same spirit of
mac-love (addiction) that is in you is in me. If you want an apostolic list of
my love of Apple, realize that I supported Apple during the Clone Wars and even
propagated the advancement of technology by supporting the Clones! I purchased
a G3 processor, not once but twice. As to OS?s I cheered at the awesomeness of
Os 7.5 and roared in fury at OS 8.l. I was on the fence with OSX, hated Jaguar
and reveled in the beauty of Panther. As pertaining to hardware I loved the
purity of the 8500 and groaned at the backwards leap of the 9500 but had
renewed hope when the Clone Wars ended and there were only top benchmarks all
around. Being a designer, it proves to be not only a love but my bread and
butter as well.
Doubtless you can feel my pain as I discovered that my three
year old son broke my Ibook?s AC adapter. Sturdy material all around, the piece
has a weakness the width of the Death Star?s trench?the exposed plug that
connects to the ibook. This vulnerable piece of metal proved no match against
my son?s penchant of proficient destruction. I could bring no charge against my
boy since I only discovered the extent of the damage when the ibook shut down
later in the evening, completely drained from its non-charged battery life.
With resoluteness, I went to look for the exact model number
of my adapter (M7332) on ebay?the source of all things unwanted yet needed.
Excellent, two pages of results?until I read the description of each of them:
?Will not work on Dual USB ibook?.
It made no sense. It?s my model number, and yet it won?t
work with my ibook? I did further research and found that Apple decided to
release the adapter under the same model number, although one?s pin is larger
than the other. I scoured the web and found plenty of sites that sell the
appropriate part but only as aftermarket and with the uneasy legal protection of
?may not work with your apple product?.
The search currently continues but it bolsters my conviction
that Apple simply makes Time Capsules. Each and every one of their products has
something that the previous generation doesn?t have and can?t have even if you
wanted it to have it. In fact, once the product fades off of the Apple Home
Page, you should fear if you?re the proud new owner of a Quad or Cube. If you
decide in 4 months to try to upgrade your product you might as well forget it
because any parts that are made for it are likely sinfully expensive or
dangerously close to incompatible. You bought a memory and you enjoyed it for a
few months, now use it as a door stop or put it on the book shelf with all your
other old macs and hope that your wife doesn?t finally throw them all out.
Thank goodness that the ipod shuffle is that small, it?ll fit in nicely next to
your first generation iMac.
There you go?I love them and I can?t stand them. I dream of
the day that Apple will finally let go of their imperial grip and let end-users
upgrade their products without a hassle. A millennial age of
backward-compatible support where processors and dvd-superdrives can actually
be installed in older machines without killing the wallet!
For now, I just want this adapter.
-r-
Update: I’m looking at iGO’s power options. It looks promising. This is the longest day of my life. 23:36:40