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Free Cards All Over Again (3/22/02)
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We seem to be experiencing the most extraordinary feeling of déjà vu. Remember about a year ago, when folks who had pre-ordered their Power Macs with barn-burning nVIDIA GeForce3 graphics cards were starting to get a little antsy about their Macs being in Assembly Limbo? If not, let us refresh your memory; basically, folks who had pre-ordered their Power Macs with barn-burning nVIDIA GeForce3 graphics cards hadn't yet received them, and thus they were starting to get a little antsy about their Macs being in Assembly Limbo. (Is any of this sounding strangely familiar?)
Anyway, what happened was that Apple had gotten all excited about the long-awaited GeForce3 being available for the Mac first, and so the company may have jumped the gun a little by offering it as a build-to-order option so early; many eager customers had placed their orders in January, and still hadn't received their new toys as of early April. So Apple did a very honorable thing: customers soon got word that the GeForce3 was taking much longer to ship than anticipated, and so people who had pre-ordered could choose to take immediate delivery of their Power Macs with a lesser GeForce2 MX installed; Apple would then ship the GeForce3 separately once the cards were available, and the customer could even keep the original GeForce2 MX at no charge. Nifty!
Fast-forward to 2002; like before, many build-to-order Power Macs are backordered. See, apparently Apple had gotten all excited about the long-awaited GeForce4 Titanium being available for the Mac first, and so the company may have jumped the gun a little by offering it as a build-to-order option so early; many eager customers had placed their orders this past February, and still haven't received their new toys as of late March. But faithful viewer Kevin Schlei informs us that Apple has done a very honorable thing: according to an article at MacNN, customers have just gotten word that the GeForce4 Ti is taking much longer to ship than anticipated, and so people who have pre-ordered can choose to take immediate delivery of their Power Macs with a lesser GeForce4 MX installed. Apple will then ship the GeForce4 Ti separately once the cards are available, and the customer can even keep the original GeForce4 MX at no charge. Nif...
...Sorry, we seem to be experiencing the most extraordinary feeling of déjà vu...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/22/02 episode: March 22, 2002: Steve insists that Apple isn't playing favorites when it comes to iMac distribution, but his math's a little funny. Meanwhile, the Jobsinator once again pulls in a one-dollar salary, but this time his stock options are actually worth something, and due to delays with the GeForce4 Titanium, Apple revives a strikingly familiar strategy to keep the populace calm...
Other scenes from that episode: 3643: Fun With Math And English (3/22/02) Hmmm, apparently Steve's math does not resemble our Earth math. According to MacMinute, during his keynote address in Tokyo a couple of days ago, ol' Jobsy took umbrage at recent allegations that, at the height of the iMac drought, Apple had been funneling more than its fair share of available units to its own retail stores, while the shelves of third-party resellers made Old Mother Hubbard's pantry look like the dog food aisle at Petco... 3644: One Dollar (Plus 43 Million) (3/22/02) As far as CEOs go, most of you would probably agree that Steve Jobs ranks right up there near the top of the list; those of you who are old enough to recall the Dark Days of 1996 most likely still consider it nothing short of a miracle that Steve was somehow able to keep the company from cratering in a thick, choking cloud of financial insolvency...
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