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Apple Store is DOWN.

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I'm NOT a patient person...this is rough! lol

I'm hoping that the 17in prices may have come down a bit or gone on sale so I can get one nice and cheap...YEAAAAA RIGHT
 
iMeowbot said:
I love when they do this. There's nothing that boosts your confidence quite like realizing that your livelihood depends on the products of a company that can't make a few changes to its web site without hours of down time.
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Why do you think this is? Obsessive quality-control / checking? Or poor back-end systems? Or not enough elves? ;) Maybe it is partly theatrical? ("Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen".)
 
I've got a feeling it might be adding stuff about the iphone, when I refreshed the page an iphone url came up in the loading bar!
 
fimac said:
Why do you think this is? Obsessive quality-control / checking? Or poor back-end systems? Or not enough elves? ;) Maybe it is partly theatrical? ("Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen".)
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I'd say it is probably a defined time. It gives every team for every site around the world a chance to update their site and test it. It also allows lee way if something goes wrong.

Also because the time is fixed the web masters don't have to rush to get the site back up, leading to less mistakes that could easily be avoided with a little care.

This also gives apple a chance to synchronize the time all the sites come back online.

It is good practice for them however for us it just makes us wonder more.
 
I personally think they will have updated macbooks, and new 15" macbook pros (LEDs?)
 
I can tell you there will definitely be new MacBooks or MacBook Pros when the store comes back up. How do I know this??? Well I just bought a new MBP over the weekend and that's the way all happens when I buy a new Mac :D
 
Bern said:
I can tell you there will definitely be new MacBooks or MacBook Pros when the store comes back up. How do I know this??? Well I just bought a new MBP over the weekend and that's the way all happens when I buy a new Mac :D
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I think apple gives you a replacement if a new revision is released in 14 days of your purchase.
 
TBi said:
This also gives apple a chance to synchronize the time all the sites come back online.
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I suppose that could be one motivator, but Apple haven't shown a lot of coordination there either. A few months ago there was one new product that showed up in (I think it was Finland?) and then rather messily worked its way through the other stores with broken links along the way. when they do use the sticky-note page, the stores all return in a strange staggered order with haphazard timing. It's a mess no matter what their excuse is.
 
When they say new macbooks, they mean the pro's as well.

On the website it previously showed 4 macbooks (white, black, pro, pro 17 inch).

The update will include all of these and possibly the ultra portable?
 
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