Off to Chonburi to collect she who must be obeyed’s iMac. On the way we drop off my truck for a 30,000 kilometre service; so I am expecting some expense.
Thanks to Antz, the iMac had been fixed via a little man who knows how to fix Macs, rather than via the Apple service centre in Bangkok. Not only was the Mac in working order, but the shop owner offered a very good price to purchase the machine. We declined, partly because the computer contains a number of photos that a certain person failed to back up; but also because it will serve as a web access machine when The Son comes to visit.
Also thanks to Antz’s recommendation, I picked up a tiny black box called a WD TV. WD stands for Western Digital, and TV I assume stands for Transvestite; which is a rather strange name for a product that takes a USB device full of media of almost any format devised by man, and throws it at a television via an HDMI cable; up to and including HD. Just what I had been looking for since my Xbox had moved location and is now serving as a Formula 1 racing machine and not a media streamer.
Slightly lighter of wallet we return via the garage to discover that my truck service has cost a mortgage-inducing 1,200 baht. And this just for oil and filters, because I have been spared the extortionate 300 baht labour charge because I am entitled to a free service. I was entitled to a free service last time too; for reasons that are never made clear. The punishing cost is slightly ameliorated by the discovery that the vehicle, which has not been near a sponge since the last service, has had a full valet service inside and out; and even the engine department has been buffed to look like new.
Even so, hell of a price; I have bought a car for less (although it was nearly forty years ago and it only had three cylinders and two wheels).
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2011-01-11| The Ghost saysWhat’s the price of that WB TV and where do I get one? How big’s the hard drive?
2011-01-11| Spike says3,200 baht. You plug in a USB stick or drive and it plays from the there. There is a “Live” model for about a thousand more which have a network connection so you can connect direct into your computer. My computer network is not near my TV, so I just stick stuff on a 16GB USB stick.
Got mine from iBeat in Central Chonburi. Probably in Tuk Com if you look around.
2011-01-11| TheSon saysThe Son will also be dragging his VAIO with him (Lightroom and such); presumably plugging a Windows 7 laptop into an all-Mac household will cause total system collapse.
2011-01-11| Spike saysSony VAIO? Windows? Please Google “disown”.
2011-01-12| Keyser Soze says“now serving as a Formula 1 racing machine”
If I hear, ‘That repair cost us some time’ one more time, I am going to scream!
2011-01-17| genuinej saysO Spike, Spike, wherefore art thou Spike?