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17 inch powerbook orders

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Heart Break Kid

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Feb 13, 2003
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ok i just ordered my 17inch powerbook along with a backpack case, ms office (dont hate me..i need it), medal of honor, a printer and the app care

now. whats the deal? i spent the last few days reading over the forums and everyones complaining about getting their Alubooks on or before march 20th

my order status says est shipping is on or before 04/25
god damnit!!
i cant wait that long

im gonna go crazy
is their any way i can harass these people so theyll gimme my pb faster?

i want it now
now now now now now
 
Re: 17 inch powerbook orders

Originally posted by Heart Break Kid
ok i just ordered my 17inch powerbook along with a backpack case, ms office (dont hate me..i need it), medal of honor, a printer and the app care

now. whats the deal? i spent the last few days reading over the forums and everyones complaining about getting their Alubooks on or before march 20th
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One of the folks in the other 17" thread mentions that Mac Mall might have inventory coming in. You could call them and see if they really do. If they have them sitting around - I imagine you could get one FedEx'ed to you. I don't think using MS office is a crime - I think the animosity towards MS has to do with the creation of an dos overlay shell several years ago... might have infringed on some patents... what was it called, oh yes... Windows. Anyway, MS became a large shareholder of Apple in the late 90s (in return for apple dropping some litigation), so you can think of Office as an Apple software cousin.
 
Boo hoo. I ordered mine on Jan 7 and it's still not here. So cry me a river since you might have to wait as long as everyone else.

Deal with it, at least you getting a killer machine.
 
I heard they added two more monkeys to the assembly line, so now they are cranking out 4 PB 17"ers a day.

I ordered mine from MacZone on Jan. 22. At the time it was 7-10 weeks wait (Apple Store). But mine is backordered on a waiting list of 9 people--we're not talking high volume here.

I assume Maczone will get them around the time MacMall gets them, and MacZone has NO dates from Apple, not even wild guesses.

I agree, it is a ridiculously long wait for the thing. Remember the iMac? I guess Apple is known not only for slow chips, but also slow supply chains.

If this is a sign of anything, the local Apple store finally has ONE in the window. That's it.
 
Marketing move

Perhaps it is just a marketing move to get the 12" and 15" sold. Part of my consideration in buying the 12" was that I could not wait 3 months for computer. Not to mention the three month wait I had anticipating MacWorld keynote. I cant wait to see one!
 
Email earlier this afternoon reads:

Greetings from Amazon.com!

We have some news concerning your order for "Apple PowerBook Notebook
17" TFT M8793LL/A (1.0-GHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB hard drive)."
We are sorry to report that we have contacted our supplier and this
Computer is not yet available. The official release date has been
pushed back to 03/15/2003.

We are very sorry for the disappointment.

We have left your order in place and will ship this title to you as
soon as it becomes available, but we will certainly understand if you
wish to cancel the item from your order.

You may cancel any unshipped items yourself by clicking on "Your
Account" at the top of our homepage and selecting the link that says
"Cancel orders that have not yet entered the shipping process." Next,
enter your e-mail address and password to access the "Order History"
page. Here, you will be able to cancel your order for any item that
has not yet entered the shipping process.

Again we apologize for the delay with this title.
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yah i know i gotta wait
but i cant!

damnit. i cant wait to become a starbucks junkie
you know the kind. the people who sit in starbucks with their laptops and pretend their doing important work but are really playin quake or something. :D

damnit
i hate the waits

ahh well...

guess i just gotta get used to it

heres to all the envious looks we'll get when be bust out our PB's
wooooo!:cool:
 
LosJackal: Palo Alto, Steve's home town. Youmight even see him there on occasion. All the Apple execs were there for the Jaguar launch party recently. The window demo could be one of the 20 or so at MacWorld that were on display, but it wouldn't have taken that long for the store to get it.

Waiting sucks.

Love the thread about Chuck --they had their baby before he got his new 17".

DHagan: March 15th???? My mistake--they only added one more monkey to the line--guess it's not slapping the parts together fast enough.

My question to Apple: What's taken so f%#@ long to make this thing?

Waiting sucks.
 
If this is any solace, the Apple Store now says 5-7 weeks when it used to say 6-8. So it does appear to be on schedule. But it's still a long time to go.
 
So....

When do you think I can just walk into an Apple Store and walk out with a brand new 17" PowerBook? MWNY 2003?

This is absolutely ridiculous. I think they're holding off on the 17" so that they can release AND ship the 15" APB. And simultaneously skank me out of another couple hundred bucks on the TiBook I'm trying to sell.

:mad:
 
Ridiculous? No. Without precendent? No. Frustrating? A bit. Understandable? Yes.

Apple "announced" a new product. Not available yet, but if you want to buy one, go ahead and order it. You won't be charged until it ships. Waiting a month or two until it is "released" isn't out of the ordinary.

Pay attention to some other companies. Certainly at least a month or two can pass after "announcement" than a product is "released".

Personally, I went through a long wait back in October of 1999, when I ordered the top-end PowerMac G4 with a Cinema Display. During that time, Apple reduced the top-end processor speed from 500 to 450 due to availability problems. Three months after ordering I finally got my Cinema Display delivered then the computer a few days later.
 
ok so heres my thing
since this powerbook is my first mac in almost 8 years i got to get reaquainted with these

was wondering
anyone know of any cool apps? like for dling music, videos etc

im just soo freakin giddy rite now
yah yah yah
finally ditched my crashing dell


wooooooooo!
 
Re: So....

Originally posted by Skandranon
When do you think I can just walk into an Apple Store and walk out with a brand new 17" PowerBook? MWNY 2003?

:mad:
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um i went to my apple store today ready to order a new 17" pb. when i was there the other day some employee told me that if i ordered quickly that i would see it by march 1st (when the store is sopposedly getting theirs in). so today i asked another employee if he could guarantee that it would reach me by march 1st. he laughed and told me that if i ordered it from apple it could take months. he then told me that i should fill out one of those 'contact me' things that will let me know when a 17" comes in. he said that i could walk in and buy one, but he said that i should come in as soon as they call me because they will only hold it for about a day. hope this helps
 
Heart Break:

Music: Start with Reason. Abelton Live is also real popular. Try the demos.

Video: You will have iMovie already with OS X. You can do some decent videos with that. And if you go pro, you can get FCP express or the full version.

Must have: Windowshade utility from Unsanity. Also good is Labels X.

I hear DiskWarrior is great as a drive utility.

Have fun.
 
Shawn Michaels...Whose that?

jokes
lol

course im an HBK fan...but being a Canuk.....Bret Hart is god, closley followed by Owen ( :( ..miss that bastard alot)

anyway
i was at last years wrestlemania in Toronto

cant wait for this years
gonnna have to order it since i live no where near the west coast

lookin more fwd to gettin ma mac though

damnit
i hate waiting
 
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