|
The Check's In The Mail (11/8/00)
|
 
|
| | |
Believe it or not, some people actually criticize Apple's products sometimes. Really, it's true! As hard as it is to imagine, we've heard real, honest-to-goodness people complain aloud that Macs are too expensive. We've heard others say that Macs don't ship with enough RAM. Honestly! We can't think of a single reason why these people would say such things, other than the fact that they're pretty much true. (Like that's any excuse.)
Well, fortunately, it sounds like Apple's listening to the grumbling and making at least tentative moves to appease the complainers. A few weeks ago the company introduced a $200 mail-in rebate for any PowerBook purchase by the end of the year, thus alleviating the massive price gap between the low-end PowerBook and the iBook Special Edition. At the same time, a $300 Cube rebate went into effect, provided that the Cube is purchased with a matching Apple display; hopefully that'll help spruce up the Cube's lackluster sales performance.
But with Apple's latest promotion, the company's killing two gripes with one rebate. Sort of. Under the "It pays to get more RAM" promotion (ugh), build-to-order Macs configured and purchased via the Apple Store will qualify for a rebate equal to a buck for every MB of RAM added. Add 64 MB of RAM, get $64 back by mail. Add 512 MB, get $512. Neat, right? Of course, you'd save even more money by purchasing and installing third-party RAM yourself (and you'd probably get a lifetime warranty instead of just one year), but hey, it's still an improvement. Buy! Buy! BUY!
| |
| |
 |
SceneLink (2666)
|  |
 |
|
And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors |
| | | |
|
| |
|
 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/8/00 episode: November 8, 2000: Well, Steve Jobs may not be President, but the election was still exciting nonetheless. Meanwhile, Apple uses the election coverage as a springboard for a new iMac commercial that welcomes Jeff Goldblum back into the family, and Apple's going rebate-happy-- now you can get a dollar back for every extra megabyte of RAM you add to a custom Mac at the Apple Store...
Other scenes from that episode: 2664: Goody: "Too Close To Call" (11/8/00) Now who says politics is boring? Here we were, thinking we'd have to incorporate the U.S. presidential election into our little show purely from an Apple-centric point of view in order to mine any drama from the proceedings, when in fact the event turned out to be a rollicking edge-of-your-seat soap opera in its own right... 2665: The Return Of The Jeff (11/8/00) Aside from Steve Jobs's infuriating decision not to run and his public endorsement of Algor for President and CEO of U.S.A. Inc., there was one other overt Apple connection to the election coverage: a brand spankin' new Apple commercial which took the whole Mac-using community by surprise...
Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast... | |  |
|
|
