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http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/02/23/mac.mini.bulk.order.denied/

Briefly: Mac mini bulk order denied

updated 07:15 pm EST, Thu February 23, 2006

 

Mac mini bulk order denied


In brief: One blogger was recently told by an Apple representative that the company is "not able to take large orders of Mac minis right now," amidst speculation that Apple will unveil an Intel-based Mac mini during its special event on February 28th.... Micro Heaven today announced that it changed its domain name from www.easyipod.co.uk, following threats of legal action from Apple.... SlipperySoft recently announced version 1.0 of iTunes2web ($13), software designed to export an iTunes music library to a Web page.... IDC's server numbers show that Microsoft Windows has finally overtaken Unix in the server market, and that Linux is still accelerating at double-digit growth rates.... Logisys Computer this week unveiled a new PC shell dubbed the ePod Soho case, featuring an unusual design similar to Apple's iPod.


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  1. Buran

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    02/23, 08:57pm | report spam | Reply |

    Amazing ...

    ... you would think a company wouold be happy to take large bulk orders. You don't refuse customers like that; you tell them "We can take the order, but the delivery timeframe is a little long. Can you deal with (x) weeks?"

  1. beeble

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    02/23, 09:38pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: amazing

    Maybe Apple didn't want to commit to delivering Mini's since they've stopped producing them ahead of a new product to be announced next week. If they signed a contract to deliver Mini's then they'd have to do that. The alternative is to tell the prospective customer that the Mini is about to be superseded. h*** will freeze and pigs will fly backwards before they'd do something like that.

  1. jarod

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    02/24, 06:58am | report spam | Reply |

    Relax

    Apple is not about to lose a huge order. They probably have them on old with the promise of something better. This is business people. No one refuses money.

  1. mouseketter

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    02/24, 08:59am | report spam | Reply |

    How valid is it?

    I question the validity of the Mac Mini story.

    A blogger. No name just... a blogger.

    And what company does this guy work for? And how many Mac Mini's did he want and why?

    And a Apple rep... was it some guy at a local Apple store? or at CompUSA. Was it from Apple corporate?

    How many Mac Mini's did he want? A couple of hundred he says. What kind of number is that. If you call anybody, CompUSA, a local Apple store, MacMall... anbody and say.. hey we need a couple of hundred Mac Mini's here is the credt card number... guess what... they are not going to fill your order.

    His blogg says his company goes through quite a lot of mini's a month. Why? What are they doing with them? Are they using them in a way that voids the warranty and in a public manner in which Apple may feel misrepresents the product in a bad way?

    So some completely unknown guy post a blogg about how some unknown company he allegedly works for has supposedly put in somewhere a order of unknown quantity of Mac Mini's and supposedly the unknown source that supposedly works for Apple in some unknown capacity supposedly told this unknown company that Apple couldn't fill the order.

    And this is news?

  1. testudo

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    02/24, 12:36pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: relax

    Apple is not about to lose a huge order. They probably have them on old with the promise of something better. This is business people. No one refuses money.

    well, if they told me that they couldn't fulfill my order, I'd be going out to find someone who could. Not everyone is willing to wait around for Apple to decide to start shipping some product.

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