the future said:Meanwhile on the US online store...
Yeah the UK Store is saying 3 days for the 2GB and 7 days for the 4GB.
I'm hoping they'll get some at the Bullring store on Saturday. If not then next week.
the future said:Meanwhile on the US online store...
Did you get one, yet?iGary said:The Annapolis store, right down the street from us, only got them in Saturday.
Saturday.![]()
caveman_uk said:A guy here at work (in the UK) ordered a black nano on Monday. He got it yesterday. Maybe it's just the US that has stock issues on deliveries.
Incidently Apple has started the hard sell over here. Full page ads in some of the papers (there's been one in the 'Metro' everyday the last few days) and on the London Underground (Subway). I haven't seen any TV ads but I don't watch that much TV.
Considering the mini is no longer on the apple website and that there will be a lot of people buying in the initial rush, I don't read much into those figures.iGary said:
I can see that coming. We had the white iMacs, eMacs and iBooks, the titanium PowerBook and PowerMac and then came the silver and white iPod. Now we have a Mac Mini that is almost identical to the iPod in colour sceme and I can see the iMacs going that way too and the PowerMacs and Books turning black. They are after all bringing in an ex-Sony design team for the new PowerBook and so must be looking towards a radical redevelopment.mac-er said:Great, they are going to think everyone loves black electronics...
glossy black Macs, here we come.![]()
broken_keyboard said:Why did they even make a 2GB? Oh wait a sec... these are the same guys who used to put only 256M in a Mac...
Lord Blackadder said:I might buy a 2GB, I'm not such a power user when it comes to MP3 players (I still use my 64MB Rio alongside my Shuffle).
Anyway, my entire music library is only around 8GB, so I could put most of my heavily played songs on a 2GB Nano.
The pricing structure favors the 4GB model though.
A little OT:iGary said:
broken_keyboard said:Why did they even make a 2GB? Oh wait a sec... these are the same guys who used to put only 256M in a Mac...
mpw said:A little OT:
Anyone else find it just a little sad that the Apple Store Top Ten doesn't have any non-music related hardware or software other than the QT Pro key?
mpw said:A little OT:
Anyone else find it just a little sad that the Apple Store Top Ten doesn't have any non-music related hardware or software other than the QT Pro key?
d00kie said:Hmmm...the Apple store states that both white and black 4Gb Nanos ships in 5-7 days. 2Gb ones ship within 24 hours. Just order a white 4Gb yesterday and I hope I can get it somewhere within two weeks![]()
nomad01 said:Well I went to the Bullring Apple store nice and early this morning on the off chance that they'd had a delivery. Few nano adverts dotted around the Bullring which is good.
Asked the guy at the counter and in a semi-exasperated tone he just said "no". I asked if he knew when more were expected and he just shugged and said "you'll just have to keep trying". Brilliant bit of customer service. I always seem to get served by this same guy though and he always acts like it's a chore. T0sser.
Anyway, I went to the little Apple centre in Brum and again, just a lot of 2 GB models. Checked Dixons. Same there... somebody buying a mini though.
So I called John Lewis in Solihull. VERY helpful. It was just a kind of call centre I think but he checked the stock and said they had a few 4GB blacks showing up but only one white and if that was all that was showing, it's possible that it would have gone already. However he said that they have 11 showing as In Transit so they should have more in the week.
Well I had time to kill so I thought I'd nip over to Solihull and just have a look anyway.
At John Lewis they have a little glass cabinet filled with something like 100 nanos. Piled up on top of each other so you can't really see what there is. Looking at the sides of some of them, they all seemed to be 2GB models but I asked anyway. Again, the very helpful assistant checked and said they have one showing. He looked at the big stack in the cabinet and said "hmmm... I'll check out back first". In the meantime I'd spotted a 4GB box amongst all the others so when he came back I asked what colour it was. He had to drag all the boxes out to get at it but yeah... it was white.![]()
Very happy my little escapade wasn't for nothing. lol I considered getting the black but looking at them "in the flesh" again, I just prefer the white.
And to keep this on-topic, there were a LOT of people queueing up to stare at the nano while I was waiting. Seems that word is travelling!
Steve