Mac mini - camp out / meet up - Tysons Corner, VA - Jan 22
I saw Russell is thinking about camping out overnight so he can be one of the first to get the Mac mini at the SF store. Phew! I thought I was the only one who would rather go to the store than order online. With the shipping estimates being so vague (3-4 weeks), I called up the Tysons Corner Store in Virginia and they said they would have the Mac mini on the 22nd. They also said they perform memory upgrades in-store, but not hard drive upgrades.
Oh well, my kids will have to live with only 40 Gigs. OK, my turn to play the old geezer: "Back in my day... we only had floppies... and they only held 360K... and we had to format them... and we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get them!" So basically, my kids at their young ages will have the equivalent of 111,111 floppies that I had when I was 12.
Don't even get me started about processor speed. Let's just say that my kids will have the equivalent of 262 IBM PCjrs.
So if anyone wants to meet up, I'll be camping out early outside of the Apple Store in Tysons Corner. I'll wear my Eclipse cap.
All Apple stores are opening up one hour early, so that's 9AM. Unfortunately, I don't think the mall lets people actually sleep overnight inside. :)
It's too bad Apple doesn't do what video game manufacturers do with big releases and let you pre-order and then give you the system on midnight. That's what I did with the Dreamcast back on 9/9/99.