How will she be paying for it? You should note that Apple won't bill a credit card until the computer actually ships, so it might help if she can write a check or something similar. Everybody else has pretty much covered it; look at the Apple Store policies online at <http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html> Kynan Shook kshook at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html. Peter Krug <pkrug at mac.com> writes: > My wife has been waiting for the next update to the 15-inch > PowerBookG4 for a while. She has institutional funds that have to be > spent by August 15. The Ti's at the AppleStore are backordered 5-7 > days and out of stock almost everywhere else: > http://www.macprices.com/g4tracker.shtml The rumor mill suggests > this likely means that upgraded models are imminent (I know, rumors).