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February 24, 2005

An Apple iBook's travel tales

So I decided it was time. My trusty old Mac G4/400 was getting old, and VLC was getting too large to comfortably compile on it. I could really use a bit more mobility as well and therefore I decided to get the 1.2 Ghz iBook 12". I'm not gonna explain why. I'm an Apple freak and if you don't like it everyone can just keep buying Wintel pieces of shit.

So the idea is to sell the G4/400 and get some extra bucks. The iBook wil be my new machine and at home I'll hook it up to keyboard, ethernet and 19" monitor. In a couple of months I will upgrade my current wintel machine (can't afford more macs :( ) with some components to become my new Desktop machine with a bit more punch.

I made this decision on thursday the 10th of februari. Had to wire the money so that was gonna take a few days. My order was finally confirmed on Tuesday the 15th.
Friday the 18th my iBook was ready and left Apple. I was hoping it would arrive just before FOSDEM in Brussels (the 26 and 27th). However it's now the 24th and apparently due to an aircraft failure of the shipper (Kuehne + Nagel) my mac was delayed for over 3 days !!! Big bummer cause the earliest it will now arrive is the 28th and that's if I'm lucky !

True shame and to be honest I don't understand that you need 7-9 days (not counting the delays) in the first place to do a product shipment. I mean if UPS can do shipments in 24 hours, then why does a normal shipment has to take so much longer? This proces could surely be optimized couldn't it?

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