Powerbook on its way

Congrats on the new PowerBook. My 12" PB has been a little workhorse for more than a year - and it's very portable, so that should work well for you. Hopefully, you'll be surprised at how fast it gets to you from Shanghai.

Heh, I remember waiting for my PowerBook...I kept checking that shipping page, like, every five minutes. When it finally came it was like ****ing Christmas. :sigh: I want to order another new one just to get that again... heh

Congrats.... you'll love it. When my mini shipped, it left Shanghai, went BACK the next day, but then somehow made it to my house the following day.

I wish the Ipod deal was going on when I ordered mine!

It goes from China to America really quickly. I remember that mine arrived at the Fedex place Friday afternoon, so I had to sit over the weekend knowing that it was only twenty miles away but wouldn't be here until Monday. 3-4 days to get from China to my town, but 2 days to get from my town to my house. But first thing Monday, there it was! I quickly installed Panther and then had to run to school. It was two days before I got to actually just sit down and play with it. But quite the rush.

i guess that's the good thing about living on the coast. It arrived in the US in the morning, and I believe, not positive on this, that I had it that night, or the following afternoon at the latest.

I ordered mine on the 20th of June, and it arrived one week later, the 27th of June, early in the morning, around 9:30AM. I was unfortunate because I missed the $100 off which ended June 25th, and then 3 days later, June 28th, the Student Union, free ipod mini deal came out which I missed. If I would have waited I could have gotten a free ipod mini. Oh well, I have my 30GB Ipod Photo. Hope you enjoy your PB 12".

Being in Alaska, I often get the short end of the shipping stick. My PowerBook, for example, made it into Alaska (Anchorage, I am in Juneau) on Friday last. I will not recieve it until next Thursday.

This is due to the unsavory fact that FedEx contracts out its ground shipments in Alaska. The last my tracking page showed (and will show) for my PowerBook is that it was "on FedEx vehicle for delivery" in Anchorage. This is the place where it is handed off to a contracted company, who sub-contracts through Juneau Courier in town.

Juneau Courier will recieve my PowerBook on Monday. They will then sit on it until Thursday, because that's when the estimate ship date was. They will not give it to me, and they will deny knowing anything about the package, even though it may be right behind the counter, visible to me. I have ordered many other products from Apple that have come through Juneau Courier, and this situation occurred exactly that way.

I am not pleased with FedEx's decision to contract with Juneau Courier, nor am I pleased that they will happily outright lie to their customers, but they always do get my packages to me - albeit some days (occasionally weeks) after they recieve them.

I'm very much looking forward to my PowerBook, though. First Apple computer I've picked up for myself!

Aeon, if you know this Juneau Courier place has your package and they deny it call FedEx and raise hell with them.

Hell raised.

Powerbook recieved.

Blood pressure returning to normal.

I win?

If you recieved your powerbook, then yes, you do win.