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MacBook Air on Sale at the 5th Ave Store Tonight! 10:55 PM EST!

OH man!!!

get the MBA or at least a pic of Jason...one or the other man, I got had on extra shipping!!! I need some form of pay back!!!:cool:
 
Ryuukumori said:
Hey man, have fun there!

I've never been in an Apple store before (I'm a loser, haha). But my Japanese teacher has already ordered his online on MacWorld day and it's coming to the school on Feb 12th. Can't wait to check it out.
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There's a very convenient one in Bellevue, WA.
 
And my prays have been answered!!!

my MBA has been shipped!!!! I bet they read my comment about calling tomorrow and said "get this lunatic's MBA out of here"!!!

I got the 1.8 80HD!!!

Finally, I can go to bed in peace:)
 
seriously I need some confirmation about the 5th ave availability. I'm considering grabbing a cab and head on over tonight. But with only the reported 50 I really don't want to get there and find out they're out T_T
 
paradox0o0 said:
seriously I need some confirmation about the 5th ave availability. I'm considering grabbing a cab and head on over tonight. But with only the reported 50 I really don't want to get there and find out they're out T_T
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I'd call to be certain. There still is no confirmation any will be for sale tomorrow - just displays and demo units. Wish iphonephan would have consummated a deal.
 
Ran there, walked out (almost) empty-handed

When I got there this evening they were setting up. I stuck around till they put the demos out to the public. I played with the SSD unit for a bit and it is pretty zippy. I opened everything on the dock simultaneously and it didn't chug. The speaker sound was tinny and distorted at highest volume while playing Hous of Pain's "Jump Around". There were a ton of people swarming all the sales people and I really didn't feel like waiting around too long. I decided to pick up a MBA superdrive and go home. I now await for my Amazon Gold Box deal MBA to ship. Good luck to anyone who is still sticking it out. Thou art more hardcore than I.
 
What are those?

Nibi said:
When I got there this evening they were setting up. I stuck around till they put the demos out to the public. I played with the SSD unit for a bit and it is pretty zippy. I opened everything on the dock simultaneously and it didn't chug. The speaker sound was tinny and distorted at highest volume while playing Hous of Pain's "Jump Around". There were a ton of people swarming all the sales people and I really didn't feel like waiting around too long. I decided to pick up a MBA superdrive and go home. I now await for my Amazon Gold Box deal MBA to ship. Good luck to anyone who is still sticking it out. Thou art more hardcore than I.
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Did anyone notice in the pics...What were those white dongle-looking thingys plugged into the MBA's USB port? Or am I just seeing things?
 
WHAT A SHOW!

Nothing for sale, don't waste your time.

And none of the sales people will even give a confirmed date when they will be available.

Pretty sad, I am willing to spend $3000+, and apple does not want to take it tonight.
 
im guessing apple is looking out somewhat for the preorder ppl maybe?
dont' want a ton of canceled orders
 
inkling23 said:
Did anyone notice in the pics...What were those white dongle-looking thingys plugged into the MBA's USB port? Or am I just seeing things?
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The thingy you are referring to is a security device. It is tethered to the magsafe connector and fastened under the display counter. If anyone tries to walk away with a MBA the USB dongle pops out and emits a loud shriek of an alarm.
 
Yup, they're not selling them tonight. It was great to see and touch one though, it reaffirmed my choice to get one. The staff, and Jason in particular, was pretty nice to me. They have a list of customers on an item-out-of-stock list for the MBA. They said they would call the customers on the list when it goes on sale, so I put my name on it. Hopefully they will go one sale tomorrow, but I am guessing probably not. Maybe Saturday though.
 
lol kudos to the OP for all the info and pics. It's amazing how much info (Jason, Status, Pics) we can get now and days with technology.
 
Toknee said:
WHAT A SHOW!

Nothing for sale, don't waste your time.

And none of the sales people will even give a confirmed date when they will be available.

Pretty sad, I am willing to spend $3000+, and apple does not want to take it tonight.
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Yep, Toknee and I hung out for almost an hour... no dice :(
 
iPhonePhan said:
I love NYC! We always get everything 1st!
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Um, I don't know about that. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Apple is in the Bay Area. We saw the Air first at Macworld in person while the of you are posting up on MR when the stores will have it to show. I played with the Air on the 15th, the day of Macworld. Doesn't always pay to live in NY.:p
 
I was playing with the MacBook Air...

at Macworld '08 as well, but there wasn't a CD/DVD drive on it, so I was wondering how you would add software to it without the CD/DVD drive??? Never mind! I just saw the Remote Disk retrieval software feature. :cool:
 
I just checked it out....thin and pretty, just like everyone has said. They only had the SSDs on display....and i only saw two of them. the SSDs were snappy, and iMovie with SD clips seemed to run well. itunes opened very quickly and coverflow worked pretty smoothly.

I will probably get one when they go on sale, but I will still lust after the MBP's 15 in screen...there's just so much screen real estate!
 
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