Well maybe not the longest two hours ever, but pretty close, I think.
It’s only long in my perspective, really. You see it’s 10am. At lunch (noon), I go and pick up my brand new MacBook from the Purolator Depot. So for the next 120 minutes, I have to sit at my desk and do work instead of picking up the possibly awesomest laptop in the world[1]. In all honesty, though, it really wasn’t a long wait for it.
I ordered it online directly from Apple. CompuSmart could sell me a white MacBook, but since they had none in stock, they would have to get one in (about a week). However, I wanted to upgrade the RAM (naturally). CompuSmart’s price to upgrade from 1Gb to 2Gb of RAM was $150 more than Apple was offering online. So, I asked them if they can get the MacBook from Apple with the 2Gb RAM to sell to me. I expected a, “Yeah, that’ll be no problem.” What I got was, “If we do that, it’ll take 4-6 weeks.” Ballhockey.
So I ordered online from Apple. I upgraded the RAM to 2Gb and it still said it would ship from Apple in 1-2 days. Awesome. I splurged for the expedited shipping (3-5 business days, $23) because, hey, $23 is a lot less than $150. When I placed my order Wednesday night (the 6th), the expected receive date was anywhere between Dec 11 to the 14th. Not bad.
I got a confirmation email the next day (7th) saying it had shipped from Apple. Bonus. Then, when I checked the tracking information on Friday (8th), it was already in Toronto from the states. Holy crap. Obviously it didn’t move over the weekend, but it was at my door on Monday (11th) at 11:06am. 3 business days. Holy crap on toast.
Since I was at work yesterday, I wasn’t there to pick it up, so they took it to the depot. Now I have to pick it up over lunch. Well, at least I’m 20 minutes closer to lunch than before…
[1] Well, my world, of course, since the next best computer I have is a P3 450MHz from 1999. I’m pretty sure there is tubes in there somewhere… Actually, no there isn’t, now that I think of it, cuz it really sounds like crap.
