iMac G5 Now Shipping

The question is... how many? Maybe Apple really did stockpile a ton of them over the summer. But they've already said supplies will be tight.

This should make many people very happy. Now we can get some good benchmarks done on the new imac beast.

NOOO, so very close to first post!!

I'm just waiting to make sure the dual screen hack will work with it and then I'll be placing my order... so somebody get one and try it out!!!!

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Spreadsheets tracking promised and actual shipping dates. Bring on more pictures of the FedEx guy!

Get ready.

Great news for those folks who bought one. We need pics and benchmarks!

Great! I hope they keep it up!

Let's just hope they can keep the supply coming...

boo...mine still says october 5th!

Does this include BTOs too or just the standard package?

Now my hopes are all up as I put my order in on the 31st!

The 2.5s were shipping once...once....

Suburban Trow said:

Here we go with another 4800+ post discussion...

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I remember the article title 2.5s now shipping.....

I wonder if they're already displaying them at the Apple stores. The design is growing on me, but I know I'll like it even more once I see it in person.

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I'm surprised they're ready for shipping already.

It makes me wonder how long they've been waiting for decent supplies of G5s to get these things moving off the line and into homes.

It makes me believe they had the design/manufacturing lines set up long ago and were just waiting for enough chips to go around.

Just ordered a stock low-end 17" about an hour ago and my date is 10/12/2004.

I was hoping for something a little sooner, but it shouldn't be nearly as bad as the wait for my G5.

I'm going to buy one of these for my parents, who are currently using a Window 98 machine - riddled with viruses. A Mac now seems like the only safe way to let your retired non-tech-literate parents surf the Web!

still havn't got my e-mail yet but can't wait for my 20inch imac to come ordered it on the 31th too.

WOOT!!!

Foocha said:

I'm going to buy one of these for my parents, who are currently using a Window 98 machine - riddled with viruses. A Mac now seems like the only safe way to let your retired non-tech-literate parents surf the Web!

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Somewhat the same for me. The new iMac is for my mother for email and basic web-surfing.

I had to hold myself back from tearing into one of my relatives who had the inane notion that a 500 dollar Dell was the smart purchase. They thought I was being a smart-ass when I told I'd be happy to if they made the weekly trip across country to clean her machine of viruses and spyware.

The 6500 the new iMac is replacing ran without a problem for eight or so years for her. I assume the machine will do the same.

Foocha said:

I'm going to buy one of these for my parents, who are currently using a Window 98 machine - riddled with viruses. A Mac now seems like the only safe way to let your retired non-tech-literate parents surf the Web!

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that is so true, PCs and non tech parents dont mix, I had to get my parents a G4 iMac for the same reason. They love it.

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I'm just waiting to make sure the dual screen hack will work with it and then I'll be placing my order... so somebody get one and try it out!!!!

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What hack? The iMac G5 has ds native, but through VGA, what else is there?

I would guess that there have been plenty of components ready for the factory line. The iMac was supposed to ship in June so there should be no surprises on component availability. I would also assume that there are more than a few Apple engineers at the factory watching every step of production.

If an order placed today is scheduled to ship on Oct 12th I would guess that things are going fairly well in the factory - and that Apple will be shifting a lot of G5 chips to the iMac line for the first few months.

Sadly, there is still no e-mail from Apple about my BTO 20". I'm beginning to feel that the standard models will be pushed through the line first and then the BTOs as the line settles down.

neato, now I have to decide if I want to order one of these or a powermac for minor prepress work (light indesign layouts) at our office. Any takers on a suggestion?

I didn't get an email and the status of my order hasn't changed yet. I ordered my iMac the day after it was announced. Shouldn't I be in the first batch. Maybe I customized everything, bigger hard drive, wirelss, and 1 GB ram etc ...

Wow, apple really nailed their projected shipping times for this one, almost no delay at all!

Props apple, we love you!

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neato, now I have to decide if I want to order one of these or a powermac for minor prepress work (light indesign layouts) at our office. Any takers on a suggestion?

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If I were you i'd go with the powermac. iMacs are cool and all, but just not well suited for graphics intensive work. Thats just my take on it though, i'm sure most people would be more than happy to have an iMac to do minor prepress work with, but for a business i'd suggest goin with the powermac. Also, you can upgrade a powermac with a better gfx card, whilest you can't do that with an iMac (not suggested anyways).

macridah said:

I didn't get an email and the status of my order hasn't changed yet. I ordered my iMac the day after it was announced. Shouldn't I be in the first batch. Maybe I customized everything, bigger hard drive, wirelss, and 1 GB ram etc ...

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I really don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but please read through the powermac dual 2.5 shipping forum to avoid getting your hopes too high!

macridah,

I ordered my BTO 20" at 6 AM on the morning they were announced, and have not received my e-mail either, but I do check it every 5 minutes . . .

I think that a lot of orders were placed by people who stayed up late in order to be first in line AND because the show was in Paris customers in the UK and Europe had a 5 - 8 hour head start on the business day.

I'm just afraid that Apple will fill orders for the standard models for a brief time (just to make sure production is going OK) before throwing the BTOs into the line.