Antti Kupila

This is seriously uncool.
I mean, my mac has been great, but look at this (click for bigger images):

Yeah. It’s a bit bulged. I’ve read about this happening to others too, but this is almost worse than other pics i’ve seen, the gap there is over 1cm!

I noticed that my batterytime had gone down a lot a week ago or so. I checked my battery capacity with coconutBattery and noticed that the capacity had gone down to 94%. Ok, i thought, the battery won’t stay new forever. Checked a couple days later again and was down to 84%. Uhh..

A couple days later i noticed that the battery would run out of power really quickly, in 1:30 or so, much faster than before. I checkede the capacity with coconutBattery again and noticed it had gone down to 66%, in two additional days! This can’t be good.. After this i started checking the capacity daily. Today’s result was 57%, with 206 load cycles.

(Click image for full history. It shows -1 mAh now, because i don’t have the battery plugged at all, running on AC. No way am i putting it in anymore)

Ok. Not good. The battery would die out in about 1:15, after being fully charged. The computer also shut down even if there was 80% power in the battery. Something was definitely wrong. So, i decided i have to call apple support, ’cause this can’t lead to anything good. That was yesterday.

This was today:

While i was working today i noticed that my computer would tilt very easily. I flipped the laptop and noticed this. Yep. Didn’t have time to call today but i guess i have real reason to call now. If this isn’t a valid reason to get a new battery, i don’t know what is

I’ll update when i can write a blogpost without being restricted by the AC cable.

It’s a shame that problems like these come up. In general i really love apple’s products, but this .. well, this is simply not acceptable. Come on, you can do better than this!

Update

I got the new battery from Apple. I’ve got to say that they handled all that pretty well, no problems no nothing. A friendly UPS guy delivered the new battery to my home door. I could also say that the old battery is now about double the size it was when i took the images in this post. It bulged from the bottom too. Insane.. Well, the good part with all this is that I got a new battery, which is even better than the original one. According to coconutBattery the capacity is 6719mAh! Then again this could also be because it’s not properly calibrated yet, or something..

• Posted Feb 03, 2007
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Yes. It’s true. It actually is true, and the name is actually iPhone. And yes, it’s absolutely amazing.

Engadget has published some excellent images of the iphone. Check them out!

The price for the 4gb model will be $499 and the 8gb $599 (with 2 year Cingular contract). Available in June, Europe end of the year and Asia 2008.

Read more about the iPhone

There’s no doubt what my next phone will be.

• Posted Jan 09, 2007
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An interesting move from Adobe. Adobe Labs has released a public beta for a new sound editing software, called Soundbooth, competing closely with Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. The usage, however, is different, Adobe Soundbooth is targeted more towards creative professionals, and not so much audio pro’s.

As Adobe already has Adobe Audition, also for sound editing, this is still an interesting move. Here’s a quote from an interview with Hart Shafer, senior product manager for Adobe Audio products, done by Macworld by Jim Dalrymple:

Adobe said that Soundbooth was designed from the ground up with the video and Web workflow in mind. While many professionals have to be able to manipulate audio, they don’t necessarily need the vast feature set that many high-end audio applications offer.

For me this seems very nice, as Adobe Audition seems a bit overkill and as I use other Adobe products on a daily basis, the logic should be the same, making it easy for me and frankly, quite many others, to get into the product. Nice Soundbooth will be a very familiar application for Adobe’s customers, explained Shafer.

Soundbooth is immediately available for download for intel based macs (PowerPC’s are, and will be, excluded) and pc’s

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/

• Posted Oct 27, 2006
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For anybody who might be reading this, this is probably pretty useless news, but I can’t just not mention this. I got a 17″ MacBook Pro!. Yes, it was like experiencing x-mas at 6 years old again (still is). This is also my first mac and oh man, only regret I have with this is that I didn’t get it earlier, really seeing where “it just works” comes from “Switch” = there’s no going back.

Anyway, since this is my first mac, I also feel like a total noob. Heh. Kind of weird since I’ve used various computers for several years. Well, things are just different, and usually I try to do everything the hard (windows) way, when there’s just a really simple solution. Just will take some time to get used to.

Haven’t played around with Adobe’s software under Rosetta yet, but pretty much everything else works faster on this laptop than on my 3000+ Athlon XP64 desktop computer running Windows XP 64, so I think I’ll be fine. Well, at least I hope so, because 90% of the time i work on my computer I use either CS2 or Studio 8 software Oh well, the new universal versions will come out pretty soon anyway.

Yeah, wish me luck getting some work done, deadline’s are approaching, but playing with my new toy is sooo much cooler than writing some actionscript for the client..

• Posted Jul 25, 2006
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