luminary blur

My Apple TV finally arrived today. I ordered the 40 GB model which was shipped from China on Friday. From China. On Friday. They tried to deliver it yesterday but I had it going to my work address and we were closed for MLK day. They tried delivering it on Monday. It came from China. On Friday. Now that’s freaking amazing. Anyway, I took the obligatory unboxing photos. There’s a Picasa Web flash embed after the jump. There’s also a video that’s currently encoding on Vimeo – I’ll post the embed for that after the jump as soon as it becomes available. More on my first Apple TV impressions later. Also, I have thoughts on the Macworld 2008 keynote as well…maybe at some point I will have time to type them out.

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written by Ben \\ tags: Apple, Apple TV, Photos, Unboxing, Video

I finally relented and took a trip to my local Apple Store to purchase a new Bluetooth. I’d been eyeing a Jawbone for a while now but it wasn’t until I lost my Jabra last night that a new handsfree became a necessity. In my zeal (and while I’m waiting for the darn thing to charge—why can’t everything come fully charged like my TomTom did?) I’ve taken some pictures of the “unboxing.” A Picasa Web embed is after the jump.

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written by Ben \\ tags: Jawbone, Tech, Unboxing