good luck and beware
patientMacByr
your thread prompted me to at long last sign up. I have read these forums for a long time and cannot ignore your plight.
I was in the same situation with MacMall. Ordered end of Sept., kept getting put off, etc. etc. Last word I got was that I would receive pb first or second week of december. And, amazing, it came in Wed last week. Figured it was just another lesson in being patient. And besides the delays put me beyond the initial screen and panther upgrade issues.
1.25 pb 15.2 is beautiful. came preinstalled with panther. screen is pristine - absolutely no stuck pixels. here's the beware part. machine kept locking up - not just a software jam - totally locked up. If that doesn't put the fear into you, you don't know how many kernel panics and black screens of death I have experienced over the past few days. After much frustration, decided I needed to reload system. Reload would not complete, the machine would just go into lost blue screen cycle. Finally called apple. Tech was great. Spent an hour with me while we determined that ram was bad (beware the MacMall ram upgrade!!!!) and, if you don't already know this, MacMall pulls the original 512 chip and puts in two of their cheap substitutions. And MacMall service knew what the problem was before I even described it. Am sitting at work now waiting on overnight delivery of replacements. What a pain.
Moral of the story: If you start experiencing lockups, unexplained problems ... check that ram quick!
