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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present!
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Well I dunno, I'm just telling you what it said on the pamphlet.
This is the one I have. http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=135076
vohdoun: I'm not saying that it's a bad surge protector. Belkin makes fine equipment. I'm just cautioning against putting too much trust in manufacturer insurance programmes. If you know that you want your equipment insured, get an insurance policy from an insurance provider.
hhhmmm shouldnt the houses have surge protectors standard? in australia they all do. they work pretty well, we have had heeps of surges and nothing has ever blown.
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All sorts of stuff usually making things out of clothes and things I love that are falling apart but I can't bear to part with. I made cushion covers out of all the red t-shirts with slogans on that I loved but were getting a bit old and stinky.
The last thing I made was a messenger bag, and the shoulder strap pad is made from the furry lining from a coat I'd had since I was 15. The outside of the coat fell apart but I kept the fluffy lining for projects like this.
I'm currently thinking of making a jacket out of an old mens suit jacket but haven't had the time to properly look at it yet. It's a brilliant old sewing machine though. My mum gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago and it takes (most) of the abuse I shove at it. "Take these four layers of denim, bitch!".
I'm really picky about clothes and bags, so being able to make and alter your own is a good thing, and it's not as hard as people think. Especially if you bodge it.
I just received my new macbookpro, so a few quick updates:
It's a 15" 2,4ghz macbookpro with 4gb RAM
and I LOVE IT!
more pics of my setup: http://gallery.mac.com/thomasverschoren#100027
wow, now I kind of regret getting matte, the glossy looks so nice in that picture
....That looks matte to me. Trust me, if it was glossy, you'd see nothing but a big reflection of that flash.
most definitely is matte, it would look darker and would also just be a reflection from the flash.
I own it for about 2 weeks now and haven't used it so much. It's my first graphic tablet so I have no comparison, but my first impression is very good.
All sorts of stuff usually making things out of clothes and things I love that are falling apart but I can't bear to part with. I made cushion covers out of all the red t-shirts with slogans on that I loved but were getting a bit old and stinky.
Nice! I really like the bag with the materials especially the plush stuff on the handle of the bag, I wish I could do that. : )
ACTUALLY, if it were Glossy, you would only see a very small dot right where the flash was. Glossy does not diffuse the light across the screen like in that picture. You would only see the small point of light the size of the flashbulb in the camera.
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Thanks.
If you fancy a go, get yourself a second-hand sewing machine and give it a try. Everyone can sew straightish lines, and most things are a series of straight lines. Once you've made a tote/shopping bag, you get tempted to make a shoulder bag, and then a lined shoulder bag, and then a messenger bag, and so on. If anything, having a sewing machine saves you a fortune in buying curtains, and shortening trousers and so on, and then anything else is just fun. There's no big mystery to it, just get stuck in. The other thing is with sewing is you can't really go wrong, because you can always unpick. 
Most 'mid-to-high' end surge suppressors, and almost all battery backup units, have not just a 'lifetime warranty' for the product itself, but also an equipment replacement guarantee. If a surge gets through their product, and kills your computer, they will replace your computer. APC even offers data recovery service! (i.e. if your hard drive dies due to a power surge while protected by one of their UPSes, they will pay a professional data recovery company to get your data back.)
I have taken advantage of such guarantees twice. Once from APC, once from Tripp Lite. With the APC, a surge blew out the UPS, and a printer that was connected to it. APC paid full original retail cost of the printer. (It was 5 years old at the time, so while an 'equivalent' printer should only have cost maybe $100, I got $400.) With the Tripp Lite, there was no surge, the UPS all of a sudden went *POP*, hisssssssssss, and everything that was plugged into it was fried. (Computer, monitor, DSL modem.) The hard drive was okay, but the motherboard, processor, and memory, and power supply were toast. Tripp Lite sent me a check for $1500. (All I had to do was send in the receipt for the computer component purchases, and they sent me a pre-paid box to send the UPS back to them.)
Okay so I got it yesterday at the apple store so its not as shiny as it was when I got it.Oh and I would like to add that when I was looking at it online I thought it might be to thin because I really like the size of the iphone but after getting it I think I might even like holding the touch more.
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All sorts of stuff usually making things out of clothes and things I love that are falling apart but I can't bear to part with. I made cushion covers out of all the red t-shirts with slogans on that I loved but were getting a bit old and stinky.
The last thing I made was a messenger bag, and the shoulder strap pad is made from the furry lining from a coat I'd had since I was 15. The outside of the coat fell apart but I kept the fluffy lining for projects like this.
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I'm currently thinking of making a jacket out of an old mens suit jacket but haven't had the time to properly look at it yet. It's a brilliant old sewing machine though. My mum gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago and it takes (most) of the abuse I shove at it. "Take these four layers of denim, bitch!".
I'm really picky about clothes and bags, so being able to make and alter your own is a good thing, and it's not as hard as people think. Especially if you bodge it.
wow...that bag looks awesome!!
my macbook would look delicious in that!
steve.
That's an awesome bag mate, it really is you know!All sorts of stuff usually making things out of clothes and things I love that are falling apart but I can't bear to part with. I made cushion covers out of all the red t-shirts with slogans on that I loved but were getting a bit old and stinky.
The last thing I made was a messenger bag, and the shoulder strap pad is made from the furry lining from a coat I'd had since I was 15. The outside of the coat fell apart but I kept the fluffy lining for projects like this.
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I'm currently thinking of making a jacket out of an old mens suit jacket but haven't had the time to properly look at it yet. It's a brilliant old sewing machine though. My mum gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago and it takes (most) of the abuse I shove at it. "Take these four layers of denim, bitch!".
I'm really picky about clothes and bags, so being able to make and alter your own is a good thing, and it's not as hard as people think. Especially if you bodge it.
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