Before I was into PCPC to order my G5 on Tuesday, I had gone in on Monday with Jon just to scope things out. My primary objective on that visit was to see if they had any
Aiport Express wireless units in yet. I had noticed on the website that they had been approved in Canada and they were cheaper than I originally expected they would be. I had kind of assumed that Apple would pull another iPod mini move and release a scaled down product that is only marginally cheaper than the full version. The price was reasonable and I just took a look and it seems that they have brought down the price of their full
Airport Extreme Base Station, but it is still a fair bit more. The big restriction with the Express unit is that it only supports up to 10 clients connected at once - but if I'm even in a situation where that isn't enough... I can probably afford another wireless router.
All this being said, PCPC didn't have any in stock - they weren't going to until mid to late August. That kind of sucked so I didn't put in an order for one. I checked the possibility of ordering one off the Apple website - they were saying 2-3 weeks until it would ship. So I took my chances and ordered one. My confirmation email said that it would ship on or before August 18. That was kind of far away, but if that was what it took... there wasn't much I could do about it. Then last night when I checked my email, they had sent a notice that it had shipped and was on its way... now I'm really glad that I hadn't ordered it through PCPC like someone else I know who will likely be waiting until mid to late August.
Bottom line. I will have wireless access in my apartment by hopefully sometime next week. :)