TheRaven64's Journal: Powerbook still not shipped

I ordered a 15" Powerbook the week before they launched the new models, timing my order so that I would be upgraded to the new one but still pay the stock-clearing price. In the last two days, I have received three emails from Apple, saying that they would not be shipping it until the second, then the first and now the third week of this month. They site stock constraint as the reason for this, but I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that they installed 10.2.8, then had to uninstall it and the re-install it on all of the machines awaiting shipping. Hopefully, 10.3 (panther) will have been released by the time they do ship it (it went gold last week), and so I won't have to pay for the upgrade to a version supporting lots of `important acronyms', as it says in the sneak preview...

Free upgrade?

[salimma]

... with Panther so close to shipping date, won't you automatically qualify for a free upgrade?

Still have fond memories of my old iBook 600 MHz. Can't say the same of the PBG4 12" - ran a tad too hot and some problems with constructions - but I could see myself drooling over a 15" running 10.3 :)

Re:Free upgrade?

[TheRaven64]

I'm hoping so. I was told when I ordered that Panther was not likely to ship much before Christmas, and I would have to pay for it at that point.

I was talking to an iPod owner in the lab the other day. He bought one of the old 10GB ones. The day after it arrived, Apple upgraded the line. He phoned up their tech support, and the imediately replaced it, not with a 15GB one (the direct replacement), but with a 30GB one. I can't imagine that a company that does this would charge me for an upgrade to th