Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 07:06 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: > Which is totally irrelevant to the question of what the *earliest* date > is, which as I said before seems to be 3/20. the earliest date --as reported on a news site--. in fact, if you read pbcentral.com's update from saturday, you'l

Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jeremy Derr wrote: > On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > that said, this is exactly why i refuse to get riled up or ticked off > about anything i read ANYWHERE on mac news and rumors sites. why? > because too many people take these sites as gospel.

Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote: >> even if you ordered only a few hours after the keynote, can >> you imagine the number of people who ordered before you? > > Damned few, based on the reports from www.pbcentral.com. To be > precise, > I've only seen one report that w

Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
>>I ordered a 17" PowerBook from the Apple Store within a couple of hours >> of the introduction. The ship date on the order has been 3/20 since a >> week or so after I placed the order - before that it was "7-10 weeks". >> Note that means that on the day it was introduced Apple gave a shipping >>

Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 05:25PM, Kevin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I ordered a 17" PowerBook from the Apple Store within a couple of hours >of the introduction. The ship date on the order has been 3/20 since a >week or so after I placed the order - before that it was "7-10 weeks".

Re: 17" Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:55PM, Steve Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>well when ordering a brand new, not-yet-shipping product, it's >>probably not wisest to order from a catalog reseller if timeliness is >>important. why? because Apple ships to THEM, then they ship to YOU. t

Re: 17' Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
> On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: > >> Ugh. Got a mail from PC Connection today. My 17" powerbook has been >> delayed until the 21st now. It was supposed to ship at the end of the >> week. I love Apple's hardware, but I really have to say that I am >> quite irritated by

Re: 17" Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 3/10/03 5:55 PM, "Steve Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: >> >> >> well when ordering a brand new, not-yet-shipping product, it's >> probably not wisest to order from a catalog reseller if timeliness is >> important. why? because Apple ships to THEM, then they shi

Re: 17" Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Steve Fuller
> > >well when ordering a brand new, not-yet-shipping product, it's >probably not wisest to order from a catalog reseller if timeliness is >important. why? because Apple ships to THEM, then they ship to YOU. the >delay is inherent to whom you've ordered from. > I fully understand the de

Re: 17" Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:22 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: > Ugh. Got a mail from PC Connection today. My 17" powerbook has been > delayed until the 21st now. It was supposed to ship at the end of the > week. I love Apple's hardware, but I really have to say that I am quite > irritated by the fac

17" Powerbook Delays

2003-03-10 Thread Steve Fuller
Ugh. Got a mail from PC Connection today. My 17" powerbook has been delayed until the 21st now. It was supposed to ship at the end of the week. I love Apple's hardware, but I really have to say that I am quite irritated by the fact that they cannot seem to ship everything that they announce wit