Waitbook Pro Ultimate Edition

February 15, 2006 on 12:10 pm | In Apple, Geeky | No Comments

What a difference a few hours make! I just rechecked the order status and shipping has now moved to the 15th of March with delivery estimated at the 27th of March. Now I understand that it’s a new product and the dates given were just estimates, but it seems very arbitrary to say shipment in four weeks and delivery in 6 weeks…it suggests the whole thing is just guess work.

I’ve got to admit that I am now reconsidering the order for a number of reasons:

• Apple have stated their intention to transition the entire product line to x86 by the end of 2006.
• March 27th is too close to Apple’s 30th anniversary and the expected celebratory product launches.
• Merom will be out just a couple of months with it’s 64-bitness and more mature VT.
• Every month that goes by makes that ATI x1600 look less and less appealing.

So maybe it would be better to wait for the Merom based MacBook and the improved mobile graphics, rather than stick with it and get the MBP on the 27th of March only for Mr Jobs to unveil the 64-bit Merom based x1×00 powered MacBook Pro II on 1st April.

Update: Maybe that should be “Penultimate Edition” because the date has flipped back to the 3rd of March and 15th for delivery!? Maybe they are running on x86 Mac X Servers and Yonah has a repeat of the Pentium Div bug…