I ordered my first Power Mac a week ago along with the 20" display. The display came in about 4 days later. The display is sitting pretty in a corner since I can't use it (no PC that has DVI out). Apple logistics was pretty funny - the order status showed "Preparing shipment" for the display for more than a week although they had shipped it a day after the order was placed. They also sent repeated emails asking permission to continue with the order since they had "delays procuring the display." The display arrived but the Apple website still continued to show "Preparing shipment" with a new shipping date of "16 May 2005" for a few days!!!
The Power Mac is coming on Monday - stupid Fedex tracking service - it said "On Fedex vehicle for delivery" in the morning (although it was a Saturday and I doubted if Apple would pay extra for Saturday deliveries for the free ground shipping option). I stayed home all day hoping (without hope) that it would somehow be delivered late afternoon or evening. Should've believed my instincts and past lousy experiences with Fedex tracking. I guess what they meant by "On Fedex vehicle for delivery" was that they have no clue as to what's happening with the package (which is generally the case). Or they probably meant "It's probably loaded on the vehicle and we have no clue when the driver comes in". Could the tracking update be more ambiguous?
I prefer the UPS line "Out for delivery" - a sentence that's a lot clearer and tells me what exactly is happening. I also like how UPS updates the tracking status on a continuous basis in almost real time (whereas Fedex updates them like once in a couple of days or so, and that too with incorrect details).
Now I have to wait two more days!!!
After all this ranting about Fedex vs. UPS, I guess it'd be prudent to state the BTO configuration.
* Power Mac 2.3GHz (dual)
* 512MB RAM (will add 1GB soon)
* 250GB SATA HDD
* Combo drive (not the new superdrive - not buying them until the dual layer discs become affordable and the drive can write at 8x or more on the dual layer discs).
* ATI Radeon 9650
* Airport Extreme card
* Apple 20" display (did a lot of thinking about the Dell 2005FPW, which was about $200 cheaper, but finally decided to stay away from the company and the "ugly" display)
Today (Sunday) I'll be picking up a bunch of "missing manual" series of books from the local library! That should keep me distracted till Monday! I can't wait to use my first Mac - with all the expectations about the machine and the OS built up over the past couple of years, and the fact that I waited so long to finally go ahead with buying a Mac instead of drooling over it, one more day seems like eternity! [this smiley actually means I'm in pain]
The Power Mac is coming on Monday - stupid Fedex tracking service - it said "On Fedex vehicle for delivery" in the morning (although it was a Saturday and I doubted if Apple would pay extra for Saturday deliveries for the free ground shipping option). I stayed home all day hoping (without hope) that it would somehow be delivered late afternoon or evening. Should've believed my instincts and past lousy experiences with Fedex tracking. I guess what they meant by "On Fedex vehicle for delivery" was that they have no clue as to what's happening with the package (which is generally the case). Or they probably meant "It's probably loaded on the vehicle and we have no clue when the driver comes in". Could the tracking update be more ambiguous?
I prefer the UPS line "Out for delivery" - a sentence that's a lot clearer and tells me what exactly is happening. I also like how UPS updates the tracking status on a continuous basis in almost real time (whereas Fedex updates them like once in a couple of days or so, and that too with incorrect details).Now I have to wait two more days!!!
After all this ranting about Fedex vs. UPS, I guess it'd be prudent to state the BTO configuration.
* Power Mac 2.3GHz (dual)
* 512MB RAM (will add 1GB soon)
* 250GB SATA HDD
* Combo drive (not the new superdrive - not buying them until the dual layer discs become affordable and the drive can write at 8x or more on the dual layer discs).
* ATI Radeon 9650
* Airport Extreme card
* Apple 20" display (did a lot of thinking about the Dell 2005FPW, which was about $200 cheaper, but finally decided to stay away from the company and the "ugly" display
)Today (Sunday) I'll be picking up a bunch of "missing manual" series of books from the local library!
That should keep me distracted till Monday! I can't wait to use my first Mac - with all the expectations about the machine and the OS built up over the past couple of years, and the fact that I waited so long to finally go ahead with buying a Mac instead of drooling over it, one more day seems like eternity! [this smiley actually means I'm in pain]
