What's mildly amusing you today?

Griff · 12-28-2010, 03:54 PM

Guess you shoulda stole it!

Lamplighter · 12-28-2010, 06:48 PM

Our girls got together for their Mom's Xmas present... an iPad.
So the dutiful husband sets about getting iPad running.

1) Plugs iPad receptacle to start charging
2) Turns iPad ON and gets message to connect to iTunes
3) Connects to iMac with iTunes, and gets message to download current version of iTunes
4) Downloads current version of iTunes (10.1.1)
5) Launches current version of iTunes, and gets message requires Mac OS v10.5 or higher

6) Connects to Apple.com, OS v10.5 no longer sold, instead get OS 10.6
7) Husband calls Best Buy - can not give technical advise over phone
8) Husband calls Apple Tech Support - automated-answering-idiot recycles n-times
and finally gives up by summoning a human

9) Extremely courteous human technician gathers information (7 minutes)
10) Technician recommends options (a) (b) and (c):
a) upgrade iMac OS to 10.6 (cost $129 - transfer to sales ?)
..........agitated husband discusses cost to update all other software
b) replace existing iMac with a new computer !!!
..........agitated husband discusses cost to purchase AND update other software
c) use a MS PC to host Apple iPad !
..........agitated husband labels iPad as "the gift that keeps on giving"

11) Wife is not happy, daughters are not happy, but husband has not given up...
Tomorrow the iPad WILL mate with daughter's MS PC for better or for worse, until death do them part.

12-28-2010, 03:54 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Guess you shoulda stole it! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-28-2010, 06:48 PM	#2
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Our girls got together for their Mom's Xmas present... an iPad. So the dutiful husband sets about getting iPad running. 1) Plugs iPad receptacle to start charging 2) Turns iPad ON and gets message to connect to iTunes 3) Connects to iMac with iTunes, and gets message to download current version of iTunes 4) Downloads current version of iTunes (10.1.1) 5) Launches current version of iTunes, and gets message requires Mac OS v10.5 or higher 6) Connects to Apple.com, OS v10.5 no longer sold, instead get OS 10.6 7) Husband calls Best Buy - can not give technical advise over phone 8) Husband calls Apple Tech Support - automated-answering-idiot recycles n-times and finally gives up by summoning a human 9) Extremely courteous human technician gathers information (7 minutes) 10) Technician recommends options (a) (b) and (c): a) upgrade iMac OS to 10.6 (cost $129 - transfer to sales ?) ..........agitated husband discusses cost to update all other software b) replace existing iMac with a new computer !!! ..........agitated husband discusses cost to purchase AND update other software c) use a MS PC to host Apple iPad ! ..........agitated husband labels iPad as "the gift that keeps on giving" 11) Wife is not happy, daughters are not happy, but husband has not given up... Tomorrow the iPad WILL mate with daughter's MS PC for better or for worse, until death do them part.

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