It depends. In the UK, Apple use TNT. I was able to use my order reference beginning with 8 on the TNT site before I got a tracking number (which began with a 6, iirc). On the TNT site, you can track by consignment or reference.
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It depends. In the UK, Apple use TNT. I was able to use my order reference beginning with 8 on the TNT site before I got a tracking number (which began with a 6, iirc). On the TNT site, you can track by consignment or reference.
This is all actually good news.
Reading all these yelps and howls, it's pretty easy to see one reason why the value of Apple stock is rebounding as strongly as it is. The next quarterly report is going to be outassight!
Reading all these yelps and howls, it's pretty easy to see one reason why the value of Apple stock is rebounding as strongly as it is. The next quarterly report is going to be outassight!
My consignment number on TNT shows that its coming from Shanghai.... right, so no singapore or czech republic.
Damn this easter break! Should get it before the 17th though.
Damn this easter break! Should get it before the 17th though.
Dead pixels
I'm probably being horribly naive and simply showing that I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm surprised that dead pixels remains an issue. I would have imagined that this problem belonged to the early years of flat-screen monitors but that time marches on and it has largely if not completely been eliminated by better manufacturing techniques and quality control. If I am right, then I should think that a customer has better grounds for being upset by a very small number of them than would have been the case a few years ago.
I'm probably being horribly naive and simply showing that I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm surprised that dead pixels remains an issue. I would have imagined that this problem belonged to the early years of flat-screen monitors but that time marches on and it has largely if not completely been eliminated by better manufacturing techniques and quality control. If I am right, then I should think that a customer has better grounds for being upset by a very small number of them than would have been the case a few years ago.
Look at the bottom left corner. It should be there. I didn't find it at first but it's usually UPS, FedEx or TNT
Hi, I think for some odd reason Apple havn't updated the carrier info. Mine says nothing about tracking the order or who is delivering it on their site. I have to copy the reference number and paste it into TNTs site.
I rang TNT, they said Tuesday. So I guess Apple have slacked off a bit recently with updating orders etc!
I rang TNT, they said Tuesday. So I guess Apple have slacked off a bit recently with updating orders etc!
It's "Christmas" at my house....! The iMac arrived just moments ago. Let the un-boxing begin.
Susan
What's your specs?
Are you sure you were getting 5 megabytes per second..? Doing the math, you downloaded approx. 162 gigabytes of updates, assuming 1000 mb per gigabyte..
Allow me to re-state that.... "I am paying for 5meg per second." Obviously, that's not what I was getting. I've no idea how many megs or gigs of stuff was downloaded. But, I do recall seeing the Mac OS update being 675mg in size (that's not a typo) and taking 4 hours to download.
Oiy
Oiy
Allow me to re-state that.... "I am paying for 5meg per second." Obviously, that's not what I was getting. I've no idea how many megs or gigs of stuff was downloaded. But, I do recall seeing the Mac OS update being 675mg in size (that's not a typo) and taking 4 hours to download.
Oiy
you will dl at 5 Mbits not bytes
I have a 20 Meg cable but i max out at 2 MBit sec
note I do get what I pay for speedtest.net reports 19.96
It's "Christmas" at my house....! The iMac arrived just moments ago. Let the un-boxing begin.
Susan
What are your first impressions? Are you happy with the speed? The Look? and so on?
It's "Christmas" at my house....! The iMac arrived just moments ago. Let the un-boxing begin.
Susan
Oh and I almost forgot, When did you order? When did it ship? How many days did it take to get to you? What country are you from? And anything else you would care to add on? Thanks.
If you have 100MB cable your real download speed is something like 10MBs per second. I have 2MB cable and my max is 220KB per second.
Susan, if it takes so long to download the updates, contact to your provider, that's not normal. I downloaded all updates in hour
What are your first impressions? Are you happy with the speed? The Look? and so on? .....Oh and I almost forgot, When did you order? When did it ship? How many days did it take to get to you? What country are you from? And anything else you would care to add on? Thanks.
First impressions...??? It's very big and very shiny.
As far as the speed is concerned, I haven't had a chance to do anything w/ the programs yet, but the software update took way longer than it ever did on my old pc. Granted, there was a lot to update, but 9 hours was ridiculous. RE: "The Look" is very sleek. Might take me a while to type without mis-spelling words, still adjusting to the keyboard. Not a big fan of the mouse yet either, may use my old one for a while.
Re: "Order/Ship time"..... I ordered it last Wednesday around 4:30pm. Apple's status changed to "prepared for shipment" around 9pm that night. By 10am the following morning (Thursday) the iMac and Applecare had been picked up and were "in transit". On Saturday morning they were "out for delivery" and arrived here at my door in Iowa at 11:00am. Darn good shipping time it you ask me.
My ISP is closed until Monday, and Qwest provides the DSL connection. I looked under system preferences > network but didn't feel confident enough to change any of the settings myself. Would rather have my ISP guy on the phone when doing something like that. It configured itself automatically using DHCP (whatever that is), but.... I agree, it should've taken an hour, 2-3 at most to download the updates. Will make a phone call tomorrow after work and see if they can help me.
Here's one question.... I've downloaded Firefox as my browser. How do I get it to permanently stay on the dock? When I close the program using command +Q, it disappears and I have to reopen it from Finder>Downloads. I'd like it to stay on the dock.
Well, off to the extended family's house for Easter Dinner.
Susan
First impressions...??? It's very big and very shiny.
"The Look" is very sleek. Might take me a while to type without mis-spelling words, still adjusting to the keyboard. Not a big fan of the mouse yet either, may use my old one for a while.
My ISP is closed until Monday, and Qwest provides the DSL connection. I looked under system preferences > network but didn't feel confident enough to change any of the settings myself. Would rather have my ISP guy on the phone when doing something like that. It configured itself automatically using DHCP (whatever that is), but.... I agree, it should've taken an hour, 2-3 at most to download the updates. Will make a phone call tomorrow after work and see if they can help me.
Here's one question.... I've downloaded Firefox as my browser. How do I get it to permanently stay on the dock? When I close the program using command +Q, it disappears and I have to reopen it from Finder>Downloads. I'd like it to stay on the dock.
Well, off to the extended family's house for Easter Dinner.
Susan
Go to Finder -> Applications -> drag Firefox to Dock. All you apps you've downloaded and installed goes to Applications folder.
I ordered a 2.93 gt120 4gb yesterday, 4/11. Estimated delivery is 4/16-4/22. I'm pretty stoked... Currently, my main computer is a G4 PowerMac 466mhz. It's been a great computer, but I've convinced myself that it is time to upgrade... I can only imagine that the 2.93 is going to be quite an improvement.
First impressions...??? It's very big and very shiny.
Yes, but that seems to be to do with your internet connection rather than the Mac itself.
What you need to do is drag it from downloads into applications. Then drag from applications to the dock if you want it there.
For Firefox, I seem to remember when I installed it, it automatically put Firefox in the application folder - I don't remember manually dragging it there... (Edit: Now that I think about it I seem to remember a slick interface where a window showed a Firefox App Icon and an Icon representing the App folder and it said to install drag from one to the other, and so I did).
Also, if you are used to windows and the start menu, I find it easy to drag your Macintosh HD icon from the desktop onto the right hand side of the dock (it didn't seem to want to dock on left hand side for me - I need to read more about the dock). If you right click on it on the dock I believe there are a couple of options of how the folders display - but I have mine set where it looks like the icon of the hard disk drive instead of a folder. When I single click on it, it acts just like the start menu on windows and prevents me from having to go into finder - it's quick and easy to select apps and utilities that you don't already have in the dock.
As for the keyboard - well for me I have used the same keyboard for the last 12 years, and have always kept it when switching PCs. Unfortunately it has a PS2 connector, and I decided when I got my iMac it was finally time to retire it. I am slowly getting used to the iMac keyboard - I'm sure I won't notice in a couple of weeks.
For the mouse, I left the Apple mouse in the box and hooked up my old Microsoft optical mouse. I refuse to use a mouse with a single button and don't think I will ever want to re-train myself to hold down a key while clicking instead of just right-clicking....
Also, if you are used to windows and the start menu, I find it easy to drag your Macintosh HD icon from the desktop onto the right hand side of the dock (it didn't seem to want to dock on left hand side for me - I need to read more about the dock). If you right click on it on the dock I believe there are a couple of options of how the folders display - but I have mine set where it looks like the icon of the hard disk drive instead of a folder. When I single click on it, it acts just like the start menu on windows and prevents me from having to go into finder - it's quick and easy to select apps and utilities that you don't already have in the dock.
As for the keyboard - well for me I have used the same keyboard for the last 12 years, and have always kept it when switching PCs. Unfortunately it has a PS2 connector, and I decided when I got my iMac it was finally time to retire it. I am slowly getting used to the iMac keyboard - I'm sure I won't notice in a couple of weeks.
For the mouse, I left the Apple mouse in the box and hooked up my old Microsoft optical mouse. I refuse to use a mouse with a single button and don't think I will ever want to re-train myself to hold down a key while clicking instead of just right-clicking....
Yes, but that seems to be to do with your internet connection rather than the Mac itself.
As mentioned, I'm going to call my ISP on Monday and see if they can talk me through some network setting changes.
What you need to do is drag it from downloads into applications. Then drag from applications to the dock if you want it there.
I must be trying to drag the wrong icon because it won't place the firefox icon in the applications folder. I'll figure it out eventually.
It is possible to right click with the Mighty Mouse. Not sure why it isn't like this out of the box but go to Settings/Keyboard & Mouse/Mouse and set the right click to Secondary button.