One thing that Apple prides itself is in its product packaging, so much so that the iconic boxes that are used to pack its iPhone even features in the current lawsuit they’ve piled on Samsung.
One change that has issued from the new MacBook Pro Retina – which incidentally just cleared Singapore customs (finally) a few minutes ago – is its new power adapter. The new adapter design though has also rendered unusable all the old MacBook adapters, which again brought about hollers from MacBook owners of how high-handed the company has become in product redesigns.
I picked up a converter that would enable the old adapters to work with the new one. The parcel arrived well ahead of the laptop itself, since the parcel’s origin is right here in Singapore. Here’s what the parcel looked like:
Don’t see anything wrong with this picture yet?
It’s the relative sizes. The converter is just over a centimeter wide. And it got packed into a box that measures 6.5 X 8 cm, and that got in turn packed into a DHL delivery box that measures 16 x 14.5 cm! OK, so I shouldn’t complain since the converter was nicely secure in its bubble-wrap, but I chuckled upon seeing how a small device has got packed into a comparatively huge box just for it.
The MacBook should be delivered sometime later today. More notes to come soon!
You could put the fruit parcel container into a shredder to make fruit parcel smoothies!
I’m pretty anxious to hear your impressions on your new MacBook Pro Retina. I’ll never have one, so I’ll have to live my would-be Mac life precariously through yours. :)