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What I did with my $100 from Apple

September 17th, 2007 : Austin Smith

I bought a wired keyboard (very sleek, very thin) and a wired Mighty Mouse. $105 with tax, and I really wanted one of those keyboards anyways, and frankly, I’m very tired of 1) replacing the batteries and 2) dealing with annoying wireless latency issues that only bother people who type really fast. I hope it works out. Now if I could just get a Mac monitor on my desk, there will be no doubt which side I’m on.

I will say I’m a little ticked that I couldn’t use that $100 on iTunes. I guess that by selling us hardware, Apple’s only really giving back $70 or so since its margin is certainly better there than iTunes.

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“What I did with my $100 from Apple”

Margaret Bauer
October 26th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I, too, have the Apple Keyboard (wired). I bought the first one the bookstore got in stock when I was still working there. The wireless one looks so stupid.

The latency’s good—and better since I killed a lot of the extensions I had installed in Firefox. Sometimes less really is more in this regard—like yeah, I can have a color eyedropper in-browser, but do I really need it?

I also have a Mac monitor on my desk, though it’s a decidedly old-school CRT—the last CRT Apple ever made.