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Exactly! I've had my Powerbook for exactly one week and one day and they never gave me a Mighty Mouse to go with it... Are you buying from Apple?supafly1703 said:
What gives?
brepublican said:
No there's an apple reseller called 'NextByte' here in Australia (or South Australia at least) that was doing it as a promotion. Apple themselves weren't. I bought from a different store though (http://www.zerothree.com.au, in Victoria), so I didn't get a mighty mouse, but I did get AUD$200 off, so that seemed like a better deal
Should be here tomorrow or the day after...
Yah-
I mean speed bumps would be nice, but it doesn't have to be that if they can't do it. I would love to see even maybe a 1.6 or something and a 1.75 idk how that works, but even if there were no speed bumps, they could have 512 built in (on par with ibook), than throw in a 256 to bring it up to the 768 (step ahead of ibook), they could have maybe a 100gig hardrive (this maybe going overboard tho... ) at the very least, it'd be nice if they can throw in the backlit keyboard for the 12inch, reduce the price by a 100-200 (i guess getting rid of the combo would do this..) and maybe work on the graphics card, and bam.. got a laptop that is still competitive imo, deffinetly makes the gap between the ibook and pb nicer!
I mean speed bumps would be nice, but it doesn't have to be that if they can't do it. I would love to see even maybe a 1.6 or something and a 1.75 idk how that works, but even if there were no speed bumps, they could have 512 built in (on par with ibook), than throw in a 256 to bring it up to the 768 (step ahead of ibook), they could have maybe a 100gig hardrive (this maybe going overboard tho...
) at the very least, it'd be nice if they can throw in the backlit keyboard for the 12inch, reduce the price by a 100-200 (i guess getting rid of the combo would do this..) and maybe work on the graphics card, and bam.. got a laptop that is still competitive imo, deffinetly makes the gap between the ibook and pb nicer!i was about to buy a 17" last night. standing in the apple store, i had the cash in hand. the only thing that stopped me was the fact that my brain said "must...wait...until...after...paris...expo"
after this tuesday, i will probably go get my 17" and call it a day. i may keep it in the box until the tuesday of next week, but if no new powerbooks are announced this week, chances are, there will be no new powerbooks for the rest of the year.
after this tuesday, i will probably go get my 17" and call it a day. i may keep it in the box until the tuesday of next week, but if no new powerbooks are announced this week, chances are, there will be no new powerbooks for the rest of the year.
drake said:Hey, eventually I'll get OS X on it
I hope not...lol I sincerely hope Apple can somehow commercially limit OS X to their own hardware. The thought of OS X running on beige boxes around the world sickens me...sure, more exposure and sales for Apple, but it brings the whole Macintosh experience level down about ten notches.
Congratulations.Mac Me Up said:Well ladies and gentleman, I'm off to buy one now
12" inch powerbook, with superdrive...it comes with a free mighty mouse as well. Not that I like the mouse (you mean I have to lift my left finger off the mouse to make a right-click *meh*), but free is free!
When I said it was a bit old, it's true. I'm just being objective. Truth be told though it doesn't really make me want it any less.
In about an hours time, I'll be a true switcher