{"id":6525,"date":"2009-10-31T21:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/10\/31\/will-i-believe-part-1\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:22:48","slug":"will-i-believe-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/10\/31\/will-i-believe-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I Believe&#8230;? Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MacBook arrived by DHL Express late yesterday afternoon. I\u2019d placed the order on late Thurs night, and the unit had taken a day to bounce from Apple\u2019s warehouse to DHL\u2019s one, and then finally arriving at the latter\u2019s delivery center at a stroke past Friday midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The sales order from Apple\u2019s web site suggested that delivery would be on Monday, but I decided to try my luck by calling DHL directly and seeing if they would deliver on Saturday. Nicely, they consented, and the notebook with the iWorks \u2013 Apple\u2019s software for Office productivity \u2013 arrived just after 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010147-macbook\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/blog2009rivervaleP1010147macbook.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010147-macbook\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010150-macbook\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/blog2009rivervaleP1010150macbook.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010150-macbook\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010152-macbook\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/blog2009rivervaleP1010152macbook.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-rivervale-P1010152-macbook\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have to give it to the Cupertino folks: their products exude style, right even in packaging. Packaging contents were pretty minimalist \u2013 quite unlikely unboxing a Wintel notebook where it\u2019s always crammed with CDs, manuals, flyers, promotional coupons, modem cables, demo ware etc.<\/p>\n<p>More to come \u2013 soon.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MacBook arrived by DHL Express late yesterday afternoon. I\u2019d placed the order on late Thurs night, and the unit had taken a day to bounce from Apple\u2019s warehouse to DHL\u2019s one, and then finally arriving at the latter\u2019s delivery<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/10\/31\/will-i-believe-part-1\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Will I Believe&#8230;? Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[643],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-toys-technology","tag-laptops","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}