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From: Graeme on 31 Mar 2010 12:18 In message <1jg889u.p6s76ka8db0yN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > [snip] > > Are there any gotchas to buying one in the States? I'm off to Colorado > > in a couple of months, could be a good opportunity to acquire one. > > None immediately obvious. Colorados sales tax is quite low too, which is > good, except that some cities have their own tax too, so check what town > you are in! Denver > > I did consider getting one from the many ebay adverts, but I would get > it for my company so it would probably work out more expensive that way. > However, if I was in the states this weekend I would have one! > What about power supplies? -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 12:38 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message <1jg889u.p6s76ka8db0yN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> > usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > > > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Are there any gotchas to buying one in the States? I'm off to Colorado > > > in a couple of months, could be a good opportunity to acquire one. > > > > None immediately obvious. Colorados sales tax is quite low too, which is > > good, except that some cities have their own tax too, so check what town > > you are in! > > Denver A bit more expensive than some other places then - 7% or so it would seem > > I did consider getting one from the many ebay adverts, but I would get > > it for my company so it would probably work out more expensive that way. > > However, if I was in the states this weekend I would have one! > > > > What about power supplies? The power supply will work but will have US pins, so you will need a UK adapter (or power supply). -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 12:38 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:28:06 +0100, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >Jochem Huhmann wrote: >> usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) writes: >> >>> Ben Shimmin<bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: >>> >>>>> If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing >>>>> her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown >>>>> about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, >>>>> but its unknown at the moment. >>>> >>>> That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it >>>> doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. >>> >>> Well, there are some printing apps on the iPhone, but I would think >>> printing is much more of an issue when you have something like an iPad, >>> especially as you can get iWork for it. >> >> Printing is clearly a requirement here (and surely not rocket science). >> But I fear as with the iPhone getting copy&paste only later this will >> take a while. > >Maybe even iSteve can learn from his mistakes? With iPhoneOS 3.x, we're quite a long way towards working computerless already, but not all there yet: Applications purchase, install, use - yes. Media (music, videos, books, podcasts etc) - yes. You can't upload your own without a computer, of course. But then ripping your own CDs and DVDs is illegal anyway... Mail/calendar/contacts sync to the cloud - yes, MobileMe/Google/Exchange, though needs a computer at some point to set it up. Printing - Can be done in apps, but it's not in the 3.x system. Keyboard, camera, memory cards - yes, though clumsily. Full backups - no. This should be easy, though time consuming. System updates - no. This will be trickier, but the iPhone/Touch already do a two-partition scheme, / for system and /var/mobile for the user stuff, so it should not be impossible. Interfacing with other stuff - no. If only iSteve would relent on his fixation with restricting Bluetooth... What have I missed that people need? Cheers - Jaimie -- Beer has food value, but food has no beer value.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 12:40 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:18:04 +0100, Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In message <1jg889u.p6s76ka8db0yN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> > usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > >> Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >[snip] >> > Are there any gotchas to buying one in the States? I'm off to Colorado >> > in a couple of months, could be a good opportunity to acquire one. >> >> None immediately obvious. Colorados sales tax is quite low too, which is >> good, except that some cities have their own tax too, so check what town >> you are in! > >Denver > >> I did consider getting one from the many ebay adverts, but I would get >> it for my company so it would probably work out more expensive that way. >> However, if I was in the states this weekend I would have one! > >What about power supplies? All Apple power supplies are 100-250V, and the plug fittings are swappable. I have an *awful* lot of US fittings... Holds true for almost everything I've bought in the US, except Nintendo DSes where the PSU is resolutely 110V only. Boom! Cheers - Jaimie -- "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 12:40
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:28:06 +0100, David Kennedy > <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > >Jochem Huhmann wrote: > >> usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) writes: > >> > >>> Ben Shimmin<bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > >>> > >>>>> If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > >>>>> her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > >>>>> about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > >>>>> but its unknown at the moment. > >>>> > >>>> That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > >>>> doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. > >>> > >>> Well, there are some printing apps on the iPhone, but I would think > >>> printing is much more of an issue when you have something like an iPad, > >>> especially as you can get iWork for it. > >> > >> Printing is clearly a requirement here (and surely not rocket science). > >> But I fear as with the iPhone getting copy&paste only later this will > >> take a while. > > > >Maybe even iSteve can learn from his mistakes? > > With iPhoneOS 3.x, we're quite a long way towards working computerless > already, but not all there yet: > > Applications purchase, install, use - yes. > > Media (music, videos, books, podcasts etc) - yes. You can't upload > your own without a computer, of course. But then ripping your own CDs > and DVDs is illegal anyway... and very hard on a machine without a CD/DVD drive! -- Woody www.alienrat.com |