Best Buy system shows dummy SKUs for new Apple products to be released on Friday

Best Buy system shows dummy SKUs for new Apple products to be released on FridayUnfortunately, Gizmodo seems to have pulled the story, but before they yanked it down, they posted a fascinating screenshot of Best Buy’s system showing several new dummy SKUs for new Apple products with a release date of February 19th, 2010…. in other words, tomorrow.

Unfortunately, Gizmodo yanked the post before I could grab a shot, so the image attached here is a lower resolution copy pulled from this scraper site. Sorry about that.

Either way, if this turns out to be true, Apple still tends to release new products on Tuesday, so it’s unlikely we’ll see anything new. The $1,999.99 price shown in the shot probably implies a 27-inch Core i5 2.66GHz iMac, presumably a restock. Still, given the display issues plaguing the 27-inch iMac line, the fact that Apple thinks it’s gotten a good enough handle on the problem to start shipping new machines is worthy of note.

I guess we’ll know tomorrow if this is just random database junk or the first glimpse of something more..

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  • Alicepire

    You do know that the date in the photo is 1-19-10, right? (Which was a Tuesday in January.)

  • http://rogerroger.com Roger Roger

    The release date being January 19th 2010 may have something to do with it.

  • And don’t call me Shirley

    January is the new February

  • Bob

    Gizmodo pulled the story for a reason…and it wasn’t because Apple told them to take it down.