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Open The Floodgates (5/31/99)
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Speaking of "whenever they ship," we doubt we're the only ones who were expecting another Wall Street-esque PowerBook drought with the new "bronze" PowerBooks. When Steve Jobs took the wraps off the new thinner, lighter, faster, longer-lasting, translucent-keyboard-and-trackpad-button model at the Worldwide Developers Conference in early May, we're pretty sure he said that the luscious new laptops would be shipping no later than the 20th. But the 20th came and went, with no sign of the slim portables in sight. The Apple Store now claims they'll be "shipping in early June," but those poor souls out there who got strung along for months last year waiting for a Wall Street with a 14-inch screen probably aren't buying it.
And yet, Apple may have indeed learned its lesson and kept the 101 delay down to a mere couple of weeks. According to The PowerBook Zone, Apple has released the hounds: 400 MHz PowerBooks are reportedly winging their svelte way to Apple Store customers, with a few 333 MHz units to round out the shipment. What this apparently means is that if you ordered a new PowerBook and were given a ship date in the first half of June, you're actually pretty likely to receive it in the first half of June, instead of watching Apple continuously move the delivery date forward until you're tempted to get a tattoo that says "Born To Wait For My PowerBook Until Jesus Comes Back Or I Die."
Of course, we won't know for sure until customers really start getting those PowerBooks in their grubby little hands, but at this point we're pretty confident that Apple has avoided a repeat of last year's availability problem. But then, we're usually overly-optimistic. Hmmm, maybe we should do something about that...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/31/99 episode: May 31, 1999: Best Buy's still out to lunch, and the Sears rollout leaves a bit to be desired, but CompUSA shows signs of actual Mac-awareness. Meanwhile, Apple cranks up the juice in the Power Mac G3 lineup, and PowerBook customers everywhere hope that the recent report of actual shipping 101s isn't just a mirage...
Other scenes from that episode: 1568: Constant Drama In Retail (5/31/99) Believe it or not, some of us harbored a mild sense of guarded optimism when Best Buy signed back on to sell iMacs. Sure, we remembered what it was like in the Performa days, and we hadn't forgotten that Best Buy was the first national retailer to jump ship when Apple started jettisoning its retail partners like so much bad fish... 1569: Cranking It Up A Notch (5/31/99) Yeah, sure, okay, you've heard it all before: the blue and white G3s are slated to receive a "speed bump," which will increase the processor speeds in shipping models without increasing the prices of the configurations...
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