On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:48, Kevin Stevens wrote: > >> I qualify for the federal employee discount, so ordered from Apple. >> That may delay the order somewhat, but I'm still surprised to hear >> that >> the retailers can be that certain of their ship dates yet. > > I was a little shocked as well. However, from the postings I've been > seeing at powerbookcentral.com, places are starting to get their dates > down a little more firmly now. I am beginning to wonder if Apple > decided > to say 7 weeks to get people's expectations set so that they could > actually over-deliver this time instead of stringing us out? :)
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