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"Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - BigGuynRusty - 10-11-2006
Article Snippet.:
"Gary Ian Reich remembers his first time in lurid detail: The struggle to get home, how he fumbled with the outer layers, his delight with what was concealed, the many lingering caresses in the ecstatic aftermath."
Linkage.:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/mac/0,68810-0.html?tw=rss.culture
BGnR
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - Donkey Hotay - 10-11-2006
Me.
Sorry.
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - ka jowct - 10-11-2006
You can tell that he doesn't live in a New York apartment.
But I confess that I have two oriiginal containers stashed here: one for my 7600, which I should remove from the back of the closet and throw away, and the huge one for the MDD 867.
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - elmo3 - 10-11-2006
What's scary is that people like that apparently do "get off" on stuff like that.
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - blusubaru - 10-11-2006
I save my boxes, but it helps in resale value and shipping if it's going to eBay. I save all of the boxes of my electronic purchases. They easily compress and slip under the matress of the guest bed
[quote elmo3]What's scary is that people like that apparently do "get off" on stuff like that.
Ok, maybe not "get off" on it, but there is something about that new Apple smell...
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - Kramerica - 10-11-2006
That would be me too...
The packaging on my first iPod (2nd gen) was awesome. Very impressive packaging design really created an experience of opening it up.
It was odd to me recently when I saw a friend rip open his iPod nano box like it was a candy bar.
I also admit to taking some pictures of each step of the unpacking process of a few other products, just to capture the "experience".
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - Lux Interior - 10-11-2006
I can get off on that
Genie Nilsson poses playfully with a new Power Mac G5 as part of an online
photo gallery whose 134 images chronicle the unwrapping and setup of the machine.
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - ka jowct - 10-11-2006
I save my boxes, but it helps in resale value and shipping if it's going to eBay.
Yeah, that's been my rationale for hanging onto packaging for things like graphics cards. But these days, by the time I get around to wanting to sell stuff like that, the resale value is nearly nothing.
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - blusubaru - 10-11-2006
Well, last spring it raised the value of my first gen 5gb iPod in box. It sold for $125 on April 19. It was in fantastic shape (box and iPod).
Re: "Meet the Apple Pack Rats" Okay, which forum member? - -jeffB - 10-11-2006
I hung onto the original (huge) boxes for my Lisa. If I kept them when I was living in a 1BR apartment, no way in hell am I going to throw them out now. I only wish I'd eBayed the whole system back when they were getting over $1K.
But I consider myself a "reformed" pack rat, because during our last free collection of electronics for recycling, I actually managed to discard several "perfectly good except for the power supply" Duo docks, along with a dead Duo or two, a dead Mac II, and a bunch of other stuff. Okay, "partly" reformed -- I still kept some working SCSI equipment, the dead Mac II prototype, and a bunch of other embarrassing stuff. But at least I'm moving in the right direction.