Interesting. On the other hand, I almost bought a new Mac today and got put off... The 8100 had a corroded motherboard. Too many spills of my water on it. I felt it wasn't safe to wait a month for the next generation since I could get a really interesting unique configuration on the 300 mHz tower from Apple (only one really fast Mac here and I'm too accident prone), and I could probably save money buying the 300 rather than waiting for the 375. I phoned around, and Compu-D doesn't have a deal on that one, so it wasn't possible to save a lot anywhere that I knew. I asked all my questions, called Apple to order and learned it takes 2 weeks to built it and another week to ship it. Three weeks! Might as well wait for the 375?
Negatives in dealing with Apple. I had a few technical questions about the configuration I wanted and since I was calling in the middle of the night, the saleslady said to call tech support in the day time hours. She gave me their number but they first of all didn't know the answer and second of all told me I needed to pay $35 for tech support. This on a Mac not yet purchased, when I've spent at least $100,000 on Macs since the first one. Didn't the first one cost practically that much? :-) Anyway, I was angry but there's a customer relations dept which found out the answers for me.
Negative, also, that while they promised me a configuration I couldn't get anywhere else (and it was true!) they couldn't get it out very quickly. Do you all think they are so backed up with orders, or do you think they're just not giving it high priority?
I wanted the DVD CD-ROM and the extra 128 graphics acclerator board and the two 4GB extra wide SCSI drives, and less RAM (since I can get that cheaper elsewhere) and wanted to save room for a PC board, but MacWarehouse said no PC Board works in a G3. Is that true? Apple was saying I can't get the DVD drive elsewhere but the negative side of that is if you want to view movies on it you need a decoder. They say there are other DVD discs you can use on it that don't need the decoder but I'm not so sure. Anyone?
They can include an internal 56K modem and will provide a free upgrade for it when it's available, (and I'd like that) but you know who makes that modem, and I don't know when they'll be shipping upgrades, since their modem division was bought out.
I'm stumped, and I guess waiting for the 375 mHz...
$35 to ask tech questions about a Mac you haven't ordered yet?
Linda |
