As most of you know I’m just a little bit fond of the company with the big glowing fruit as their logo, considering 99% of the content I write about here is about them! So, when a friend on Twitter dropped me a DM a few weeks back alerting me to an Apple Logo desk lamp, it didn’t take me very long to hit BUY IT NOW, baby!

Home Office: March 2011

I ordered it on 17th February and it arrived this morning, all the way from Hong Kong. I plugged it in right away and lucky for me my home office blackout blinds came in very useful so I could check out what it will look like in the evenings, despite the glorious blazing sunshine outside which seemed a shame to block out even momentarily. It looked absolutely stunning, something that a camera wasn’t going to pick up too well due to it’s brightness. Photo can’t do it tremendous justice – but take it from me it’s a lovely not-in-your-face glow, using a 25w bulb.

This evening I popped the switch and there was no glow. The bulb is cloudy so it’s hard to see inside to see whether it’s blown, but I am *hoping* that it is just as simple as a blown bulb and not power supply related. Tomorrow I’ll buy a new bulb and hope for the best. If not then I’ll get onto the seller and see about getting a new power supply – and hoping hard that it won’t take a further 12 days for the replacement to arrive, should that be needed. I’ll keep you updated.

You can buy the lamp for £25 on Buy It Now but I believe the seller also has some auctions on it if you prefer to wait it out and see if you can get it for just that little bit cheaper. The lamp is also available with other power supplies so if you’re not in the UK then there should be an option available to you. And it’s not just white – there are a few colours available.

I’ll let you know how I get on tomorrow when I buy a replacement bulb. Fingers crossed.

UPDATE

As expected, it was indeed the bulb that blew and the lamp is now in full glowing operation. It seems thesedays it’s increasingly difficult to find a screw-in frosted candle bulb so for pure testing purposes I had to opt for the clear which didn’t look quite as good as the frosted one did yesterday. However I’m sure once I expand my search I’ll be able to find one.