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Just In Under The Wire (1/30/01)
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It's official: Steve Jobs is no liar. (Well, this time, anyway.) At the last Stevenote, he told us that the titanium PowerBook G4 would ship by the end of January, and by cracky, apparently he kept his word. Go2Mac is reporting that a couple of readers have written in to say that some Apple Store orders for the new laptops are no longer in "Being Assembled" purgatory: they've officially graduated to full-fledged "Shipped" status. That's right; if the reports are accurate, even now titanium PowerBooks are winging their way through the skies. Some reportedly shipped as of Monday morning-- giving Steve two full days to spare. Score!
There's no word on when these lucky folks actually placed their orders, but we'd have to guess that they were among the very first to slap down their plastic after the keynote. Actually, one of the customers (whose PowerBook is listed as having shipped via FedEx, despite the fact that he or she only paid for ground shipping-- suppose Apple's trying to counter the reports of delays?) is a developer, which may have pulled a little weight, order-wise. But another seems to be a "regular" customer whose build-to-order PowerBook is slated to ship late today or early tomorrow-- once again beating the end-of-month deadline. So even some custom-built PowerBooks are sliding out the door before January ends. Color us appropriately impressed.
Now, granted, this rejoicing is all based on data from the Apple Store web site and sales personnel, so the more skeptical souls among you may well opt to withhold your applause until someone reports having his brand-spankin'-new PowerBook out of the box and on his lap, merrily supercomputing away. We suppose it's always possible that His Steveness, upon seeing that he couldn't meet his publicly-announced ship date, concocted a diabolical scheme to alter Apple Store database entries and coerce personnel to report fake ship dates that will eventually somehow be blamed on Federal Express-- but given the man's seeming indifference to missing ship dates in the past, somehow we doubt he'd go to all that trouble. After all, there are world powers to subvert and virgins to taunt!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/30/01 episode: January 30, 2001: Rumor has it that Motorola's gotten the G4 up to 1.2 GHz-- you just can't buy one, is all. Meanwhile, reports are filtering in that some orders for PowerBook G4s have actually shipped by the end of the month just as Steve promised, and a faithful AtAT viewer digs through the numbers and discovers that Microsoft may be partially to blame for Apple's stock price...
Other scenes from that episode: 2829: Oh, And Pass The Onion Dip (1/30/01) So there we were, parked on the couch and three hours into our daily grueling TV-watching routine. We were carbo-loading as we went (you really have to keep your strength up for the serious marathon sessions, you know) via the judicious ingestion of low-fat Ruffles, when suddenly our intense televisual concentration was broken by a sight so rare, so magical, that even reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show couldn't hold our attention: lo, we had discovered a potato chip that looked exactly like Steve Jobs... 2831: Hey, What's A "Position"? (1/30/01) Apple's investors are starting to breathe a tiny sigh of relief, as the company's stock price finally hovers in the $21 range; granted, that's just slightly off its split-adjusted yearly high of $75 or so, but hey, it's a big step up from that $13 it was flirting with some weeks back...
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