Remember that Test Drive a Mac mini promotion we told you about yesterday? Well forget we mentioned it. It's no longer happening.  We don't know why, and we don't much care. We tend to buy our computers from retail and internet stores that have pretty good return policies anyway, so Apple wasn't really doing us any favors.



Andy from iPodNirvana wrote with the news:

"I just received an email from LinkShare, the people who handle Apple's affiliate program. Apple has apparently decided (in less that 24 hours) to stop the Test Drive promotion. They have given no explanation, and I have not seen any other details, but all references to the Test Drive have been removed from Apple's site, and all of the banners have suddenly become regular Mac Mini banners."

Here's the email from LinkShare:

As a follow-up to an email we sent you this morning, please note that the Mac mini Test Drive promotion is no longer offered at the Apple Store. We have dynamically updated the banners and landing pages for this promotion, so if you are featuring this promotion on your site, they will automatically update to another promotion. Please be sure to update your Mac mini Test Drive text links. The rest of the promotions featured in today's email are still live.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you,
Apple Store Affiliate Program

Coincidentally, I just now received the same email, as I participate in the Apple affiliate program on several sites that I run. Ok, so maybe I'm a little bit curious about what caused this rather abrupt turn of events. But just a little...