Deb’s Blog of Mac, Life, and Stuff

Recently I helped a friend buy a new MacBook Pro. It arrived and as he excitedly opened it his wife, seeing the beautiful slim silver beauty asked how come he got plain silver instead of choosing the striking red one like I had.

My striking red MacBook Pro is courtesy of Speck. It’s called the SeeThru Satin. I wasn’t a huge fan of the hard shell until I saw and then touched this one. It was, however, difficult to choose a color! The purple really had me too. And the pink. I finally selected the red one, which is called cranberry, because of the Apple logo looking red.

http://www.speckproducts.com/products/seethru-satin/macbook-pro-15-aluminum-black-keys/164

This is exactly what I just posted to hersheys.com/contactus. They may not care, but I tried and keep trying. Maybe others are too. And maybe they will listen when enough of us do.

I discovered the ALMOND JOY cookies and some of the rest of that line last week at Rite Aid, choosing to buy the ALMOND JOY. It looked great and tasted just as great. This is definitely a cookie I can enjoy.

However — and this is big — I will not be buying them again. It simply kills me to see plastic used in packaging like that. I care more about the planet and the future health of its inhabitants than I do about enjoying a cookie. You can package these with just the one inner plastic by having two rolls and rolling that plastic tightly around each roll.  Don’t tell me they won’t look perfect. The planet doesn’t look perfect. And we have no clue what we’re doing to ourselves by having plastic degrading in the landfill.

I am VERY disappointed! These are new cookies. You had the opportunity to choose your packaging. And knowing the issues you have selected to go this way.

I’m less a fan of Hershey’s now.

I saw the new Microsoft PC commercials today. Each tracks a person who goes computer shopping. The person expresses his/her needs. “To me, the Mac is all about esthetics, one man says.” So the person chooses a computer – a PC, of course, and gets handed the cash to pay for it.

My first thought:
Too bad these people aren’t being given money to buy software to run on these PCs — or money to buy virus and other internet protection.

The woman in the first commercial I saw said she didn’t want to spend $1,000 on a 13″ screen. So she got a PC that was $699. Now she just has to spend a few hundred dollars on necessary software that would not have been necessary if she’d selected the Mac! I sure hope her time isn’t worth as much as a penny because she’ll be spending a lot of time working out the hassles. (And I do wonder  what the resolution is on the 17″ that she selected because it might just be close to the same as what she’d have on the smaller, lighter MacBook.) 

Maybe they’re just paid actors, rather than true suckers. 
But I feel bad for the people who watch these ads and fall for them.

Tonight I brought the documentary MacHEADS The Movie to the Macintosh User Group in Northridge (MacValley.com).

A couple of the attendees had already seen it at the Macworld Expo World Premiere. They commented that they liked it better the second time. Lliked it even better, that is. I asked why. One said he saw a lot more this time. The next person agreed, adding that there is so much in it.

Tonight was my 3rd time seeing it. Last night at the WOCMUG screening was my 2nd time. I thought the same thing last night. And tonight I got to know the people in it even more, and knew what I wanted to pay particular attention to this time. I’ve decided that’s why it’s great to have the video.

It’s exciting for me to watch the viewer’s reactions as well. I’m going to be taking the movie to a few more groups in SoCal.