12" PB "On or before 09/25/2003"... tick, tick, tick
It's now the last day for my "On or before 09/25/2003" estimated shipping for a new 12" PowerBook to be true. It still lists as "open". It's a BTO (added Airport, increased to 80GB), and I would have hoped to at least see the status show that it's being built by now.
I'm cynically expecting a last-minute e-mail bumping the ship date at least another week. I'd happily have that particular expectation end in disappointment.
In the meantime... may the Deity or Cosmic Forces of your choice shed his/her/its/their blessings upon eBay! My 17-month old 800 MHz TiBook (40GB, 512MB, Airport, extra battery, original Jaguar CDs) sold for $1360. My net cost of upgrading to a new 1 GHz, 80 MB, Airport Extreme 12" PowerBook, after adding 512M of third-party RAM, will be about $800. Gotta love how used Macs maintain value!
I'm cynically expecting a last-minute e-mail bumping the ship date at least another week. I'd happily have that particular expectation end in disappointment.
In the meantime... may the Deity or Cosmic Forces of your choice shed his/her/its/their blessings upon eBay! My 17-month old 800 MHz TiBook (40GB, 512MB, Airport, extra battery, original Jaguar CDs) sold for $1360. My net cost of upgrading to a new 1 GHz, 80 MB, Airport Extreme 12" PowerBook, after adding 512M of third-party RAM, will be about $800. Gotta love how used Macs maintain value!
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Since it will hopefully ship today, I probably won't actually get it until Monday (or Tuesday given Airborne Express's dodgy track record).
Screed
Originally posted by sCreeD
Right there with you buddy.
Since it will hopefully ship today, I probably won't actually get it until Monday (or Tuesday given Airborne Express's dodgy track record).
Screed
You are telling me! My iPod shipped friday the 19th and it isn't here yet but it had the 23rd as the est. date of arrival but it isn't here yet or and update on their website tracking. Also my powerbook shipped the 22nd and it should have been here yesterday (didn't really expect it though) but I hope tomorrow.
I wouldn't mind if it took longer like it is as long as I knew where it as and could actually TRACK it
Apple Online Store -- PowerBooks
Until today, the 15" and 17" models had captions reading Available today. Those captions are gone now, putting the 12" on equal footing with the other models. Hopefully this doesn't mean that all models now take longer to ship.
Both a 12" and a 15" showed 5-7 days to ship for an order placed today.
I like the fact that I can save $1250 Cdn ($900 US), if I get a 12" compared to the 15" (w/student discount). This beast wouldn't be for gaming, just writing...Next summer I plan on a G5 3 ghz (if Steve Jobs keeps his promise!). Take care...
He will be officially a new convert. Heh heh. I didn't do it directly or with heavy pressure. I brought in my iPod and soon after he bought an iPod for Windows. And then he started asking about the Powerbooks.
My 12" is still slated for today. He ordered his a few days after I did mine and his is sitting here.
Screed
"Thank you for your order dated 17-SEP-2003... Allow 4 - 6 days to build your order.
Allow 3 - 6 business days(after shipping) to deliver.
I make 6 Oct the absolute latest my order could arrive (counting 18 Sep as Day One and counting 12 Business days after that for build time and delivery time.) Is this right?
Originally posted by shetline
Damn! My PB's status just changed to "On or before 10/03/2003". Eight more days. Until maybe they bump later it again.
Another thing: What's all this 'Airborne Express' stuff. I have never heard of them through Apple and I have not been given a tracking number for them with my order. Does this come later or what?
Originally posted by ast3r3x
You are telling me! My iPod shipped friday the 19th and it isn't here yet but it had the 23rd as the est. date of arrival but it isn't here yet or and update on their website tracking. Also my powerbook shipped the 22nd and it should have been here yesterday (didn't really expect it though) but I hope tomorrow.
I wouldn't mind if it took longer like it is as long as I knew where it as and could actually TRACK it
Same deal with my iPod, shipped the 20th... only showed status in Shanghai until yesterday, as "picked up at shipper's door" in Illinois, so Airborne says it should get here by tomorrow.
If you have the option to not use Airborne, do take it.
My ship date got changed to 10/3!!
Screed
I feel another bumped ship date coming on. I hope I'm wrong.
Originally posted by shetline
No change in my online status... but 1-800-MYAPPLE says that my order is "being processed". Which should mean it will ship today.
on thursday apple wrote my pb 12" SD/60GB will be shiped next week. but today they wrote again it has been shiped
have fun with your pb´s
enduristo /germany
ordered 09/17 edu-store
Another call to 1-800-MYAPPLE -- a call which the e-mail actually says that you have to make or your order can be cancelled -- once again assured me that my new 12" PB was being processed, had been built and boxed up, and should ship out on Monday.
So those emails can sometimes be good, but in your case, it isn't
It's shipping directly from Taiwan. Expected arrival date is Wednesday. I'll probably get my new PowerBook at around the same time as the guy who bought my old PowerBook gets the old one out of Australian customs.