So I’ve just converted, as many of you know, to Mac. After working on Macs so often at school I was sold. I’ve been saving since basically after Christmas, finally broke down and bought a Macbook through Apple Online with all my birthday money and savings. Then last night, as I’m trying to solve the iPod issues (I’ll get into that in a minute) I discover that they’ve just released NEW Macbooks! For a Macbook with the specs I got, the price has been reduced $200; For the price I paid, I could have got 120GB (over 80GB) and 2.16GHz (over 2.0GHz). I’m on hold with Apple Store right now. They just tried to offer me a $50 credit.

Now the iPod issues! Oooh my. Have you ever seen a sad-pod icon? Well for your sake, I hope you never do! It means that your iPod’s hardware is screwed… and you need to replace it. Not such a big deal if you’ve got your iTunes all fine and dandy… but a HUGE deal if you were trying to use your iPod as a hard disc to transfer your songs from one computer to the other. (And your old computer is gone). I called Apple and they told me that my warranty has ended, which was weird since I swear I bought extended 2-year warranty. They also told me they could not guarantee that they could recover my songs, in fact they don’t even try.

I’m actually finding this reeeeally funny, after I got TOTALLY upset. I will have to reimport all my CDs, and get CW to send me a bunch of songs… but I suppose I did have a lot of trash on my iPod that I really didn’t listen to. The good news is that although Apple claims my warranty ended, I called Future Shop and they do have me on file for buying 2-year warranty (which ends August 2007). So I’ll head over there later today with my iPod I guess!

I’m still on hold with Apple. The Apple PhoneMan has his Supervisor looking over my situation.