Palo Alto and Santa Clara CA Apple Stores still do not have them in. Stanford University store has them but no demo and they will only sell to Stanford students, staff and faculty.
Apple shipped them to stores on Sunday, and they should arrive in most stores mid-week.
my local Apple Store [ Northridge, CA ] keeps saying end of month and is starting to really pi** me off....
i hope they are just saying that to throw the CROWD off!!
i want to see one in person, fondle [i mean touch] it, see some benchmarks for the 1.6 and 1.8, then i will probably wait till Panther is default OS and get one then...
hopefully that should be in a month or two so i can save some money.... i just blew what i had on my new Scion xB!
I make a comitment via online order and some Stanford yuppies can just waltz in the store and buy one.
WTF???
Pretty standard practice for campus computer stores. Most will only sell hardware to their own students. Although I have seen them make an exception before, this exception still was for another university's student with a valid ID.
Pretty standard practice for campus computer stores. Most will only sell hardware to their own students. Although I have seen them make an exception before, this exception still was for another university's student with a valid ID.
What I was saying is WHY do they get to buy a machine NOW while I have to wait since June 30 to get mine.
Apple needs to take care of their online customers first if anything. Not some Stanford Yuppie.
i can not make it till Saturday, but i will be there first thing Saturday morning and maybe beat the crowd...
...in 'limited quantities'.
And they only have 1.6 models. The guy at the store said that the 1.8 models would be arriving about a week later, and that would be the 25th or so. There's some kind of service that the guy showed me where you can 'reserve' a model at the physical store. I do not know how to get to that site, but basically it asks you to provide your email/phone and the model you're intrested in.
How about we set up something like a lemonade stand for Macs? IT COULD WORK.
ANYTHING would be better than Chump USA. They've had the same damaged (I mean badly!-- The screen has practically been bent off the hinge) TiBook on display for over a year. Took 'em six months to put a 12 in. AI book on the floor-- still no 17...
I'm thinking Lemonade stand sounds quite superior...
I make a comitment via online order and some Stanford yuppies can just waltz in the store and buy one.
WTF???
User your brain, dude. It's not special treatment. They aren't getting a special allotment because they're 'Stanford yuppies'
It just means that university stores sell to a smaller customer base and thus have fewer backorders to fill. I did the exact same thing at The Scholar's Workstation my freshman year at Cal. I walked into the store on August 17, 1998 and walked out with a brand new iMac without so much as preordering or calling ahead. The machine had been released for two days already and they still had a few left. I guess that makes Cal students yuppies too.
EDIT: Also note Stanford has <7000 undergraduates and doesn't begin its Fall quarter until September 30. There's nobody there right now.
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No G5's in any LA stores.
Originally posted by Placebo
The Northshore store has them in today.
Where is Northshore Store? City and State please.
Originally posted by Multimedia
Where is Northshore Store? City and State please.
Go to Apple.com. Type Northshore in the search window.
Maybe tomorrow.
Originally posted by Placebo
Apple shipped them to stores on Sunday, and they should arrive in most stores mid-week.
my local Apple Store [ Northridge, CA ] keeps saying end of month and is starting to really pi** me off....
i hope they are just saying that to throw the CROWD off!!
i want to see one in person, fondle [i mean touch] it, see some benchmarks for the 1.6 and 1.8, then i will probably wait till Panther is default OS and get one then...
hopefully that should be in a month or two so i can save some money.... i just blew what i had on my new Scion xB!
http://homepage.mac.com/yanges/yange...otoAlbum7.html
they will only sell to Stanford students, staff and faculty.
And what makes them so special?
I make a comitment via online order and some Stanford yuppies can just waltz in the store and buy one.
WTF???
Originally posted by Placebo
The Northshore store has them in today.
Thanks Placebo!
i can not make it till Saturday, but i will be there first thing Saturday morning and maybe beat the crowd...
Originally posted by msantti
And what makes them so special?
I make a comitment via online order and some Stanford yuppies can just waltz in the store and buy one.
WTF???
Pretty standard practice for campus computer stores. Most will only sell hardware to their own students. Although I have seen them make an exception before, this exception still was for another university's student with a valid ID.
Originally posted by Gabid
Pretty standard practice for campus computer stores. Most will only sell hardware to their own students. Although I have seen them make an exception before, this exception still was for another university's student with a valid ID.
What I was saying is WHY do they get to buy a machine NOW while I have to wait since June 30 to get mine.
Apple needs to take care of their online customers first if anything. Not some Stanford Yuppie.
Originally posted by yanges
Thanks Placebo!
i can not make it till Saturday, but i will be there first thing Saturday morning and maybe beat the crowd...
...in 'limited quantities'.
And they only have 1.6 models. The guy at the store said that the 1.8 models would be arriving about a week later, and that would be the 25th or so. There's some kind of service that the guy showed me where you can 'reserve' a model at the physical store. I do not know how to get to that site, but basically it asks you to provide your email/phone and the model you're intrested in.
Originally posted by yanges
Thanks Placebo!
i can not make it till Saturday, but i will be there first thing Saturday morning and maybe beat the crowd...
Northshore Apple Store
210 Andover Street
Peabody, MA 01960
978.531.2802
Thanks for your HELP.
Originally posted by Multimedia
Northshore Apple Store
210 Andover Street
Peabody, MA 01960
978.531.2802
Thanks for your HELP.
I wonder if a riot control team is in order.
Can we get someone on that problem for me?
CV
Originally posted by chris v
Well, the Apple Store in Austin, TX doesn't have them. Wait... There IS no Austin Apple Store!
Can we get someone on that problem for me?
CV
How about we set up something like a lemonade stand for Macs?
Originally posted by Dog Almighty
How about we set up something like a lemonade stand for Macs?
ANYTHING would be better than Chump USA. They've had the same damaged (I mean badly!-- The screen has practically been bent off the hinge) TiBook on display for over a year. Took 'em six months to put a 12 in. AI book on the floor-- still no 17...
I'm thinking Lemonade stand sounds quite superior...
CV
Originally posted by msantti
And what makes them so special?
I make a comitment via online order and some Stanford yuppies can just waltz in the store and buy one.
WTF???
User your brain, dude. It's not special treatment. They aren't getting a special allotment because they're 'Stanford yuppies'
It just means that university stores sell to a smaller customer base and thus have fewer backorders to fill. I did the exact same thing at The Scholar's Workstation my freshman year at Cal. I walked into the store on August 17, 1998 and walked out with a brand new iMac without so much as preordering or calling ahead. The machine had been released for two days already and they still had a few left. I guess that makes Cal students yuppies too.
EDIT: Also note Stanford has <7000 undergraduates and doesn't begin its Fall quarter until September 30. There's nobody there right now.