Scooter users heart their Macs
Faithful Macenstein reader Eric from the Chicago Scooter Club (yes, it exists) ran a poll on their site about their member’s computer preference, and it looks like scooter owners prefer Macs over PCs by a factor of nearly 2 to 1! I’m not sure whether to be proud about that or not, but since scooters and geeks go hand in hand, I think we’ll take this as a win. Mac users made up 60% of the results, versus 31% for PC users, 6% using Linux, and 3% claiming they use “other”. Of course, those claiming “other” should really just go ahead and stuff themselves into a locker.
POLL: When will Apple release the “September” iPhone update?
This holiday weekend my new iPhone 3G crashed twice, bringing my two week crash total since purchasing it to 5. I am now running only 2 and a half pages of apps instead of my normal 7, not because I think it will make the phone any more stable, but simply because it takes less time to restore. Unfortunately, this now means I have to decide in advance which games I will want to play on a given day, whether or not I will want to use certain GPS or social networking apps… it’s not the ideal iPhone experience I had envisioned. So reports that Steve Jobs himself has begun answering frustrated 3G iPhone owners e-mails with the lines “We are working on a software update for September that should fix these problems. Thanks for your patience. - Steve” is very welcome news indeed.
However, Apple hasn’t been its usual punctual self lately. While we realize Apple pretty much HAS to get this iPhone update right, and deadlines may slip in the interest of quality control, if the CEO says the update is coming in September, then it better come in September.
Of course, the problem is, September is a long month. So…. When do you think Apple release the “September” iPhone update?
Loading ...Poll: Is Apple’s logo “girly”
Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple, and I still drink the Apple Kool-Aid three times daily (it helps gives my coat a healthy shine). Yet, for whatever reason, lately I have been looking at the bright white Apple logo peering back at me from the uber powerful 17-inch MacBook Pro my colleague just got, and I think, “Damn, that logo’s looking a little girly…”
I know, what choice did Apple really have? If you name your company after a noun, you sort of have to use an icon of that noun as your logo (although it might have been cool to use a banana as the logo, just to be ironic). Maybe it’s all the recent female celebrities I’ve seen brandishing Apple laptops (Jennifer Aniston, Paris Hilton, Heather Graham, Beyonce, Jessica Simpson), although man’s man George Clooney didn’t exactly look Marlboro-tough holding his either. And granted, a boring logo like Dell’s, Sony or Panasonic – just uncreative blocky text – isn’t exactly going to win any awards. But somehow when in a meeting setting, with a MacBook Pro sitting across from some ugly, blocky PC laptop, the Apple logo just looks too “cute”, for lack of a better word. Am I crazy?
Loading ...Poll: Is the MacBook Air’s keyboard ugly?
Above: One of these things is not like the others.. but for how long?
AppleInsider’s reports of an aluminum upgrade to the MacBook line is welcome news, at least to those of use who feel our white MacBooks are a tad on the girly side. However the one aspect to the rumor that has me a bit worried is that the new MacBooks will adopt the MacBook Air’s keyboard, which I find to be ugly. It reminds me of a PC notebook’s keyboard. I guess I am old-school, but I like my laptops like I like my women - the curtain needs to match the carpet. In other words, I like a white keyboard on a white laptop, black keyboard ona black laptop, and an aluminum keyboard on an aluminum laptop. But many have said I am insane, so I will throw this out to a poll.
Loading ...Poll: How much EDGE data has your iPhone sent/received?
iPhone critics often like to point to the iPhone’s reliance on AT&T’s EDGE network instead of 3G as a reason not to rush out and buy the uber phone. Personally, I’ve been quite pleased with EDGE, in both its speed and coverage. I recently checked out my iPhone’s EDGE data stats and was somewhat surprised to see I had downloaded almost 1GB of data in the 8 or so months I have owned the phone. This seemed like a lot to me, as I use my iPhone more as an iPod than anything else. I rarely use it to check mail, and usually only do a light amount of web surfing each day, most of which occurs while using a WiFi connection. I also noticed during that same period, I had only sent about 80 MB of data, since I have no friends.
Given that so many other iPhone users are likely far more popular than me and probably putting their iPhones through a veritable gauntlet of “unlimited data” abuse, I thought it might be interesting to take a couple quick polls (both sending and receiving) to see how much data they’ve been pushing via their iPhones, and see how my usage stacks up. (You can find this info under “Settings>Usage”).
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