1. Go to your itunes store on PC/Mac and go to the user account (top right hand corner – usually your email address)
   
2. Enter your account password when prompted
   
3. Next thing you see is your account overview. From here we’ll select “Edit Payment Information” (second from top right)
   
4. You’ll notice a message in red at the top of this page. In my screenshot you will not see anything other than a normal screen though.
   
5. Scroll to the bottom and press “Done”.
   
6. You are back at the account overview. Press “Done” once more to exit.
   
7. Now reboot your Apple TV (don’t do “Standby”) – unplug the power cable and plug it back in again.
8. Now try logging on to your iTunes account on the Apple TV again and purchase something!

This worked for my client and I hope it will work for you too. Let me know.

My test results: xBench Comparison Site

Machine Specifications:
- MacBook Pro 17″ 3.06Ghz (mid-2009)
- 8GB 1067Mhz DDR3 RAM
- OCZ Vertex 256GB SSD Hard Drive (latest firmware)
- Mac OS X 10.6.2
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GT 512MB PCIe x16 Graphics Card

PS: Don’t forget to donate to keep xBench free and the developers in food and cloths!

Direct Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnIajyXDLs

How disapointed and frankly pissed off are you when you find out after placing an order for a not-quite-so-cheap product that it will be delivered later? How angry will you be when you find out it’s gonna take them a month and not just a few days or a week?

Yup, ordered on the 8th, ETA on delivery 26th! Nice and of course by the end of the month the heat was over (replaced by grey skies and rain – just like London…). So I ordered and paid(?) for a product to save my lap from turning into roast beef and it will be delivered when it’s all over. Just great.

Well, it’s passed the 26th now and still no iLap, so I checked the order screen again and now they tell me it’ll be here in 3-5 working days! LOL – I bet next week they tell me they ordered the wrong product and it’ll take another three months. Fuck this, I cancelled and complained to the consumer protection place they’ve got over here.

What really pisses me off is that when I ran my own business I would move heaven and earth to hold up the deal I had with my customer. If I had to take a hit on a product that was out of stock, then I’d happily paid excess charges to get it rushed from the next warehouse in the name of customer satisfaction and positive Word-of-Mouth (free PR)!

I don’t understand how companies cannot care, why people don’t care? Good things happen to good people, or sometimes they don’t. Be warned folks… it’s an “I’ll grab your money and piss in your face World” out there

Denkste! Arktis.de hat leider keine Statusangabe zu der Verfügbarkeit ihrer Produkte (wie sonst bei online Shops üblich!) und informierte mich erst nach meiner Bestellung das der iLap am 26. Mai 2006 geliefert werden sollte!!! OK, schade aber na gut. Dann warten wir mal. Da es draussen eh wieder kühler wurde machte es auch so sehr nix aus.

Als am 26. Mai immernoch kein iLap bei mir auftauchte schaute ich in das Arktis.de Bestellsystem und – Schock! – der iLap soll jetzt (immerhin) in 3-5 Werktagen geliefert werden (also einer Woche). Das ist aber nicht das Schlimmste. Was ich viel krasser finde ist das erst nach einer etwas un-gehalteren Email an Arktis.de ich eine kleine Entschuldigung und Info bekam. Ich weiss das auch in Deutschland eine Servicewüste herrscht und die meissten Shops (etc) sich einen Scheiss um ihre Kunden scheren so lange sie Geld bezahlen und nicht zu viel meckern.

Ich bin mal wieder derbe Enttäuscht wurden und dabei hoffte ich mit Arktis.de auf Nummersicher zu gehen Seit gewarnt Leute, kauft nicht bei Händlern die sich nicht um Euch scheren!

I am currently planning a new multimedia and gaming system to replace my old mini-ITX Epia M9000 and would love to run OS X. So, what should I do?

Buying a new or even slightly older G4 or dual G5 system would be really nice to have yet dreadfully expensive still. Until Apple at least presents the new Intel systems to the public (exepected by some around next year’s CeBit in Hannover), prices of current Moto/IBM systems will not fall.

The smart choice, IMHO, would be to buy a nice new dual core Intel system. With SATA2, DDR2, PCI-E and basically all the features of the latest of the G5 incarnation, in one word: power! A system with a 500GB RAID5, 2GB RAM, 256MB Video and super fast CPU would still be cheaper than one of Apple’s beauties (by roughly 1.000€ at my reckoning).

So what’s the downside? Well, it’s cheaper but it will be Windows of course. Or so it seemed when I set out to find what’s going on in Apple’s RnD.

To cut a really interesting project and long story short: check out http://osx86project.org or http://osx86.theplaceforitall.com/howto/ if you want to know how you can run OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on your Intel system [b]today[/b]!

I for one will be investing into the new dual core Intel platform and keep a disc handy for OSX86. I shall post my experiences here – so whatch this space.

Apple also suggested dual booting with Windows and more compatibility with Windows programs. Although this might be initially archieved through an emulator but later could run natively.

Imagine the possibilities. Microsoft be afraid, be very afraid

Source: Apple Press Release, MacRumors.com