I have to be honest..I am getting afraid of getting a 17" and I may cancel my order.
If they are having this much trouble than I may wait for v.2 My client has sent his 12" back to Apple twice. 1st: Trackpad clicker broke. 2nd: Battery would not go back in completely.
<strong>Just keeping this thread alive. How many of you have actually ordered a 17 powerbook?
I ordered mine through the mac mall for NAPP Members for $3109. Everything is cheaper aned they ship things to you first. </strong><hr></blockquote>
I originally ordered my 17" PowerBook from Casper at MacZones, 1-800-248-0800 ext 3052#. I have been ordering all my computer equipement from him for a few years now. I placed my order on Jan 10, along with a new G4 Server and other stuff.
A couple of weeks ago I called and cancelled this order, because I was given a special discount thru a developer. 2999 for the PowerBook! Plus his order was in the first week also, so I was still early in the backorder list.
According to him, the delay has been the venting wasn't allowing proper cooling and cause the PowerBook to become hot to touch. Redesigning the case to allow for better venting and then testing this new configuration has been the hold up.
I hope to have mine within the next two weeks! I can't wait to start using it, since my current G4 tower has a Rage 128 video card with only 16 Mb of VRAM. My principle applications, ArchiCAD and Electric Image, are now fully Open GL, so my redraw time is crawling. Tired of waiting seconds every time I want to edit a bezier curve.
I'll of course drop a line here when I recieve it. I haven't even seen one yet!
NAPP is the National Association of Photoshop Profosessionals
The membership cost $99 a year and you get access to a web site and the best photoshop magazine on photoshop I have ever seen. Lots of downloadable actions and cool stuff for photoshop. Plus the tons of discounts, More than well worth the $99.00 a year. I also got a humdred dollors off the epson 2200 pinter. If you love photoshop and want to be better at it then this is a no brainer. I would be a member even with out the discounts i get.
...According to him, the delay has been the venting wasn't allowing proper cooling and cause the PowerBook to become hot to touch. Redesigning the case to allow for better venting and then testing this new configuration has been the hold up....I haven't even seen one yet!
Terry</strong><hr></blockquote>
Apple prides itself on not having buggy products. so, I am not too concerned about getting a lemon. I trust that apple will fix the problem before I get mine, even if it takes two months I would prefer that apple get it right before releasing it (God! I hope that does not happen). I ordered one before seeing it and now that i have seen it I am so impressed. when you open it it is this Giant brushed metal thing and when you close it it sort of shrinks. I have lost interest in desktop computers
I just got off the phone with the Apple Store. The sales rep. I spoke with checked and said the 17" PowerBook should start shipping late this week from Taiwan. The earliest backorders should start receiving units by the middle of next week. New orders are still slated to ship in 3-5 weeks.
<strong>I just got off the phone with the Apple Store. The sales rep. I spoke with checked and said the 17" PowerBook should start shipping late this week from Taiwan. The earliest backorders should start receiving units by the middle of next week. New orders are still slated to ship in 3-5 weeks.
Terry</strong><hr></blockquote>
checked? you would think they would be prepared to provide an answer without "checking"
I am actually ordering my 17" PowerBook thru a special deal with a software developer since I use their software. They placed a large order on Jan 10th, and are supposedly the third order in the queue.
It was explained to me that there were actually a few days after the MWSF keynote that orders were not accepted. Anyone who ordered from a reseller actually only got on that resellers back order list. The resellers themselves could not place orders with Apple until Friday January 10th. Not that this matters any....
Anyway, my contact checked and confirmed that Apple plans to ship units starting March 15th and 16th. He wondered why they were quoting a weekend date, but that is what he was told. My shipment should arrive here in Houston by the middle to end of next week. Finally!
I also ordered the Brenthaven shoulder case. My contact told me that Apple has exclusivity with this case and that all orders are going thru them. It is scheduled to ship the same day.
Funny, I'm spending about $3500 on something I have never seen. But I also bought the original Titanium PowerBook when it came out. Seems my timing always runs witht the 1.0 versions.
I'll drop a line here as soon as I recieve my new Lapzilla.
When I first read about the 17 i remember that the superdrive was a 2x for dvd. the guy at the apple store even confirmed this. now when i check the website it says that the 17 superdrive is a 1X. what gives? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
<strong>When I first read about the 17 i remember that the superdrive was a 2x for dvd. the guy at the apple store even confirmed this. now when i check the website it says that the 17 superdrive is a 1X. what gives? </strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually that spec changed sometime in January (or possibly early Feb). I know that when I ordered mine on Jan 10, the Superdrive was specd to have 2x DVD write speed. Don't think there is much we can do about it.
Hopefully a firmware update will up the speed on day. Is this possible?
why does steve have to make things so hard. the TI was thin enough. if they did not have to make the AI thinner Life would be easier for apple designers <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" />
I wonder how much control Steve has in hardware development. Other than being the CEO, I mean. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
steve gets what steve wants, if they used a marketing department we would of never had a cube or DVD ROM drives. Which is a good bad thing. too many cooks makes things normaler and less cutting edge. just one vision can be powerful (ie Walt Disney) but when you miss the mark you are way off.
<strong>Just keeping this thread alive. How many of you have actually ordered a 17 powerbook?
I ordered mine through the mac mall for NAPP Members for $3109. Everything is cheaper aned they ship things to you first. </strong><hr></blockquote>
I just cancelled my order from MacMall, after a bad experience. I ordered some printer inks, and received them along with more than $2000 in HP printer drivers for a Windoze system that I didn't order. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" /> I wasn't charged, but I also can't get them to answer e-mails or calls for me to return them. If I had less scruples, they'd be on e-bay!!! I'm not sure I want to buy an expensive new system from a company that is that unresponsive. So I lost my place in the queue, and just ordered my PB 17" directly from Apple. Luckily, I don't have to sell my PB 15". My daughter just has to wait that much longer for it!!! She's not to happy, though.
The NAPP mac mal is different in that you have one person who handles everything. My girl is christine and she knows alot about the products she is selling. I am a photoshop guy so i would be a NAPP member anyway. sorry you lost your spot in the Q. when do you think that we will get our AI's I only ordered mine last week. :cool:
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If they are having this much trouble than I may wait for v.2 My client has sent his 12" back to Apple twice. 1st: Trackpad clicker broke. 2nd: Battery would not go back in completely.
<strong>Just keeping this thread alive. How many of you have actually ordered a 17 powerbook?
I ordered mine through the mac mall for NAPP Members for $3109. Everything is cheaper aned they ship things to you first.
I originally ordered my 17" PowerBook from Casper at MacZones, 1-800-248-0800 ext 3052#. I have been ordering all my computer equipement from him for a few years now. I placed my order on Jan 10, along with a new G4 Server and other stuff.
A couple of weeks ago I called and cancelled this order, because I was given a special discount thru a developer. 2999 for the PowerBook! Plus his order was in the first week also, so I was still early in the backorder list.
According to him, the delay has been the venting wasn't allowing proper cooling and cause the PowerBook to become hot to touch. Redesigning the case to allow for better venting and then testing this new configuration has been the hold up.
I hope to have mine within the next two weeks! I can't wait to start using it, since my current G4 tower has a Rage 128 video card with only 16 Mb of VRAM. My principle applications, ArchiCAD and Electric Image, are now fully Open GL, so my redraw time is crawling. Tired of waiting seconds every time I want to edit a bezier curve.
I'll of course drop a line here when I recieve it. I haven't even seen one yet!
Terry
<strong> mac mall for NAPP Members</strong><hr></blockquote>
???
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???</strong><hr></blockquote>
NAPP is the National Association of Photoshop Profosessionals
The membership cost $99 a year and you get access to a web site and the best photoshop magazine on photoshop I have ever seen. Lots of downloadable actions and cool stuff for photoshop. Plus the tons of discounts, More than well worth the $99.00 a year. I also got a humdred dollors off the epson 2200 pinter. If you love photoshop and want to be better at it then this is a no brainer. I would be a member even with out the discounts i get.
here is the link to NAPP
<a href="http://www.photoshopuser.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.photoshopuser.com/</a>;
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...According to him, the delay has been the venting wasn't allowing proper cooling and cause the PowerBook to become hot to touch. Redesigning the case to allow for better venting and then testing this new configuration has been the hold up....I haven't even seen one yet!
Terry</strong><hr></blockquote>
Apple prides itself on not having buggy products. so, I am not too concerned about getting a lemon. I trust that apple will fix the problem before I get mine, even if it takes two months I would prefer that apple get it right before releasing it (God! I hope that does not happen). I ordered one before seeing it and now that i have seen it I am so impressed. when you open it it is this Giant brushed metal thing and when you close it it sort of shrinks. I have lost interest in desktop computers
Terry
<strong>I just got off the phone with the Apple Store. The sales rep. I spoke with checked and said the 17" PowerBook should start shipping late this week from Taiwan. The earliest backorders should start receiving units by the middle of next week. New orders are still slated to ship in 3-5 weeks.
Terry</strong><hr></blockquote>
checked? you would think they would be prepared to provide an answer without "checking"
It was explained to me that there were actually a few days after the MWSF keynote that orders were not accepted. Anyone who ordered from a reseller actually only got on that resellers back order list. The resellers themselves could not place orders with Apple until Friday January 10th. Not that this matters any....
Anyway, my contact checked and confirmed that Apple plans to ship units starting March 15th and 16th. He wondered why they were quoting a weekend date, but that is what he was told. My shipment should arrive here in Houston by the middle to end of next week. Finally!
I also ordered the Brenthaven shoulder case. My contact told me that Apple has exclusivity with this case and that all orders are going thru them. It is scheduled to ship the same day.
Funny, I'm spending about $3500 on something I have never seen. But I also bought the original Titanium PowerBook when it came out. Seems my timing always runs witht the 1.0 versions.
I'll drop a line here as soon as I recieve my new Lapzilla.
Terry
<strong>When I first read about the 17 i remember that the superdrive was a 2x for dvd. the guy at the apple store even confirmed this. now when i check the website it says that the 17 superdrive is a 1X. what gives?
Actually that spec changed sometime in January (or possibly early Feb). I know that when I ordered mine on Jan 10, the Superdrive was specd to have 2x DVD write speed. Don't think there is much we can do about it.
Hopefully a firmware update will up the speed on day. Is this possible?
Terry
OWC?
...i don't remember the name
anyway, they also dropped DVD-R to 1x.
i guess 2X is not stable enough.
<strong>Just keeping this thread alive. How many of you have actually ordered a 17 powerbook?
I ordered mine through the mac mall for NAPP Members for $3109. Everything is cheaper aned they ship things to you first.
I just cancelled my order from MacMall, after a bad experience. I ordered some printer inks, and received them along with more than $2000 in HP printer drivers for a Windoze system that I didn't order. <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" /> I wasn't charged, but I also can't get them to answer e-mails or calls for me to return them. If I had less scruples, they'd be on e-bay!!! I'm not sure I want to buy an expensive new system from a company that is that unresponsive. So I lost my place in the queue, and just ordered my PB 17" directly from Apple. Luckily, I don't have to sell my PB 15". My daughter just has to wait that much longer for it!!! She's not to happy, though.