Onze held Steve was blijkbaar redelijk onder de indruk van de onblije reakties op zijn besluit om de G4 modellen in snelheid te degraderen én alle opstaande orders te cancellen. Die laatste beslissing is nu teruggedraaid, zo bericht MacInTouch:
Apple has reversed the cancellation of existing Power Mac G4 orders, according to impeccable sources, and is calling back customers to explain. The Apple Store will honor existing orders for the previous configurations at the previous prices. People who ordered the G4/500 model, which cannot be produced due to Motorola's production issues, will be offered a choice of the original G4/450 configuration at the original price or a discount on their G4/500 configuration, as if it had been ordered custom-built with a 450-MHz processor selected. Once Motorola production has ramped up to the level that Apple expected - anticipated to take an extra three months or so - processor speeds should again rise to the level initially announced. (Answering another question among readers, IBM will be manufacturing the same G4 currently produced by Motorola, with AltiVec functions included.)Several readers confirm the change in policy, although others were still getting the reorder runaround at midday (and a few more reported bizarre cancellations of orders placed and fulfilled months ago for unrelated products):
