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Cecilia76
2005-01-18, 07:10
Hello guys,

this is my first post here! I would like to point out the the Australian AppleStore is OFFLINE. Maybe it's the PB upgrade!!

www.apple.com.au

Cecilia
usurp
2005-01-18, 07:26
i doubt its the pb upgrade. anyway i just checked, store is up. i think they just added the new mac products.. if they werent added already from before.
Cecilia76
2005-01-18, 07:32
Yes, probably it's not the upgrade... :(
kylan
2005-01-18, 07:36
Not sure what to make of it, but the iBook AND Powerbook images within the store have green circles with "new" over them when you click their links.
krokodul1
2005-01-18, 08:33
Something to add to the AppleStore speculation: It struck me as odd that the German Apple store (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/germanstore) is advertising PowerBooks from EUR 1730.00 on its front page (the tiny preview image), while if you actually enter the store to customize the models, the cheapest (12" Combo) sells for EUR 1579.00 and there is no PowerBook whatsoever priced at EUR 1730.00. May be that means that an upgrade is in fact imminent, but the new / upgraded models will also be slightly more expensive?!
drewprops
2005-01-18, 08:37
<montypython>
Wait for it!
</montypython>
Gomez
2005-01-18, 08:40
true!

the ibook price raised to. I remember it was 979 this morning...
ezkcdude
2005-01-18, 08:50
Hate to burst bubbles, but the the American Apple store is up and running with no updates.
Messiahtosh
2005-01-18, 08:54
Hate to burst bubbles, but the the American Apple store is up and running with no updates.Check the American Apple store around 10:30 or 11 AM eastern time.
kylan
2005-01-18, 08:54
Hate to burst bubbles, but the the American Apple store is up and running with no updates.
Not exactly. Check the iBooks within the store; they have the green "new" circle on them.
Wraven
2005-01-18, 08:55
Messiashtosh,
That's what I was thinking - all this activity at the .Au AppleStore leads me to think it IS coming today, just not this early in the day.
Cecilia76
2005-01-18, 09:25
So, finally, what do you think about the speed bump??
Will it come today???

C.

BTW: What time is it in California now? Here (Italy) it's 16.25.
dede
2005-01-18, 09:29
i remember that last speedbump of ibook, was start at 2 PM (Italy)...
this isn't a good thing|
oldmacfan
2005-01-18, 09:29
Wow, I think that is new. The Apple store now has a timeout feature. I have never seen that before. Both the US and AU store tabs timed out, odd the German store did not and the three tabs were all refreshed at the same time.
der Kopf
2005-01-18, 09:38
Actually, the timeout feature has been around for longer than I can remember, although it might have been kicking in faster lately.
Cecilia76
2005-01-18, 11:05
The "new" icon is present also in the US store (iBook)

Cheers.
usurp
2005-01-18, 11:15
so was this new circle present from before?

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/857/store.apple.com/Catalog/Australia/Images/productshotibook.jpg
iRobot
2005-01-18, 11:19
It seems to me to be new, google searching the apple site for the pic doesn't come up with that one, meaning it's new enough not to have been caught by google's crawler...


I really doubt that it means anything though, which is why I'm confused.
bugmenot
2005-01-18, 11:56
If you look at the name of the images, in the US store it is like:

step1image3powerbook_0404.jpg (April 2004)

but for AU you get:

step1image3powerbook.jpg


Could this mean something?? :confused:
Track_40
2005-01-18, 12:11
im confused too
See, look I'll prove it...

me = :confused:
morningstarrising
2005-01-18, 12:28
Thing is they still say iLife 04...lol
theyoda3
2005-01-21, 22:02
The German site has this Eye Home thing that thay are selling, is this the where the name iHome came from? eye home (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/germanstore.woa/91405/wo/qM7cMjj9dDA83iq6kZDw0kBwrVM/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.10.1.0.0.0.1.0)
czarina_x
2005-01-22, 07:01
I also thought that maybe the pages were being uploaded with iLife '05...but apparently not. So maybe the site just crashed, they lost the newer images and had to reload the backup ones from when they were "new"...

but...it would kickass if there was some new stuff.
staph
2005-01-22, 08:26
The German site has this Eye Home thing that thay are selling, is this the where the name iHome came from? eye home (http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/germanstore.woa/91405/wo/qM7cMjj9dDA83iq6kZDw0kBwrVM/0.0.11.1.0.6.21.1.10.1.0.0.0.1.0)

No, the name iHome was born of wishful thinking, and died in trademark violation.
fiddlin'man
2005-01-22, 11:57
Don't get too excited about those "new" stickers on the PB and iBook photos. They've been there for quite a while. There was a great deal of excitement over the "discovery" of those stickers on the big PowerBook thread (http://forums.applenova.com/showthread.php?t=3036&page=11&pp=30) last tuesday.

Sorry, but it doesn't mean anything. :no:
Majost
2005-01-22, 21:55
Regardless, they ain't there no more.
tortfeasor
2005-01-22, 23:04
Regardless, they ain't there no more.

New stickers are still on the PBs in the Australia store
Majost
2005-01-23, 02:40
New stickers are still on the PBs in the Australia store
Oops... you're right. I was looking simply at the front page (store.apple.com and .au), not on the click-through pages. They're still there in US too, at least for the iBooks. But the PB in the US seems to have been snagged of the "new" tags, whereas the "new" graphic remains in Aussieland.