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striker100 · Feb 16, 2005, 08:37 AM

I was in an Apple Store yesterday looking at the 15" Powerbook and a salesman told me that they actually have received what he called "extreme" versions, meaning loaded with the 100gb hard drive, 128mb vram video card and 1gb ram. He said they didn't have any 15" Powerbooks in stock at the time but most of the ones they had already received came in like this. I was under the impression that only stock versions were available at the store. Has anyone else found this to be the case?

Wiskedjak · Feb 16, 2005, 08:54 AM

It's probably a BTO that the customer cancelled.

///Milien · Feb 16, 2005, 09:53 AM

I was in the Tyson's Corner store earlier last week and they have the same "extreme" version advertise as well. Don't know if this was an anomoly or not but they did have a few those PB15s in stock.

blicked · Feb 16, 2005, 11:56 AM

Yup.. the Apple Store in SOHO has what they call the Superfly model; it's even on their inventory list as the Superfly. 15", 128vram, 1GB RAM, 100GB HD. Maxed out. They also have the "stock option", but the Superfly is definitely in stock on a normal basis.

gbafan · Feb 16, 2005, 12:09 PM

Yeah I've seen the "Extreme" version listed on their sales cards; $2649 I believe. Ouch.

rogermexico · Feb 16, 2005, 02:28 PM

Picked one up at the Santa Monica store on Feb 4. I was going to upgrade the VRAM and add a 512MB stick myself, figured roughly $125 wasn't too much to pay to let Apple install the RAM, add 20GB of storage and, more to the point, get it in my hands *nownownownownow*

From posts here and elsewhere, it looks like if I'd gone with BTO I'd probably still be waiting, so it feels like $125 well spent.

cpac · Feb 16, 2005, 03:04 PM

Hey - on those "extreme" (or since I'm in NYC) "Superfly" models - is the GB of RAM in 1 stick or 2? (I'm assuming it's 2x512, but I thought I'd ask)

shabbasuraj · Feb 16, 2005, 03:38 PM

It is 2 sticks...

Last Apple store I was at had 4, now they only have one...

But they were the older 15" RevB models...

legacyb4 · Feb 16, 2005, 04:05 PM

Boy, I wish I had had the option to have purchased an "extreme" version of my 12" back then... it would have been nice to have gotten the 60GB drive (biggest back then that Apple was offering) instead of the stock 40GB.

///Milien · Feb 16, 2005, 06:09 PM

It seems that these extreme versions are only on the 15er and not the 12er or 17er.

Simon · Feb 17, 2005, 03:48 AM

Originally posted by cpac:
is the GB of RAM in 1 stick or 2? (I'm assuming it's 2x512, but I thought I'd ask)

Hmm. Having only one stick, leaves one slot empty, but would there be a performance advantage if you had 2 512 MB sticks instead? IIRC there used to be something called memory interleaving...

Apple doesn't seem to mention it.