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2011 Thunderbolt iMac w/ SSD Shipment Tracker
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Not nearly enough activity on this thread... I expect new, unfounded rumors on an hourly basis. K thx bye.
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We need something that changes more than our order status page as we refresh constantly and futilely.
I decided to break down and cancel my SSD order. I know a local authorized reseller who had an extra order for a 27" / 3.4 / 2GB VRAM / 1 TB HD. Since I didn't spend the money on an SSD, i decided to go for a second 27" display. i am happy right now...I wish you all the best of luck getting yours very soon.
I realize it's exceptionally late over there, but any change in status on your iMac?
Could it not be that they are waiting for Lion so they can launch the new SSDs with the TRIM support in Lion?
The 21.5" models are consistently showing ship times of 5 to 7 days now, so not likely. I'm not in the Mac Developer program (only iOS), but Lion is not anywhere near gold master yet. I'm guessing Lion is going to be more around August. 10.6.8 has been seeded to developers though.
There's been news that Apple's lengthy validation testing procedures for sub-30nm NAND flash components are making it difficult for manufacturers such as Samsung and Toshiba to ship newer parts in Apple devices. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the hold-up... except for the whole 27" models still taking forever, where it then makes less sense.
At least today my new modem will arrive. DOCSIS 3.0, 50/10Mbps (up from 12/2) and 100% ready for IPv6.
Still hasn't shipped
The only difference between my order and the others is that I ordered mine through Apple Australia's internal Channel Employee program so I have no way to know if their estimated ship dates are accurate or not. If nothing has changed by the end of the week I might give them a call and ask...
This is useful to know! Many have noticed that some of the ship dates seem to be awful early, so this gives us an idea as to why that may be the case for some people.
Hmm.. yeh, didnt think of the 21.5".
Maybe worth adding where we ordered them from onto the spreadsheet? I ordered mine from UK Educational Store.
I don't expect the majority of people to be backfilling data, so we wouldn't collect much. Additionally, there's only 5 or so people with very close ship dates, so those are the only cases I think we really would care about. For example, yours isn't shipping until June 20th, which is normal, so no one would really care where that was ordered from (unlike someone who has theirs shipping May 20th).Hmm.. yeh, didnt think of the 21.5".
Maybe worth adding where we ordered them from onto the spreadsheet? I ordered mine from UK Educational Store.
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Being able to restore from revisions does make restores easy. Though if they start doing this en masse again, I'll lock the sheet down again for a while.
Aside from this, to those with early ship dates, any updates?
For what it's worth, shipping time on 21.5" with SSD has decreased to 2-4 days now... 27" still sitting at 4-6 weeks.
I think apple has made decision that imac 21.5" will use the current SATA2 SSD while decide to put a new sub 30nm SATA3 SSD for its higher end model?
But that doesn't really make sense....4-6 weeks is way too loooooooooooong
At the time of ordering, 4-6 weeks did not seem that long, but after two weeks it feels like a long wait. After ordering the new iMac my old iMac, which was fine till 5/3, seems to begetting slower day by day .
Wondering if I should cancel and get the one with out the SSD immediately, can't believe so many people decided to wait to get the one with SSD. I hope it provides a meaningful difference in speed, to make the wait worth.
And to other DIY'ers who adds RAM, do you know the brand and model of the RAM used by Apple in there iMac.
At the time of ordering, 4-6 weeks did not seem that long, but after two weeks it feels like a long wait. After ordering the new iMac my old iMac, which was fine till 5/3, seems to begetting slower day by day
. Wondering if I should cancel and get the one with out the SSD immediately, can't believe so many people decided to wait to get the one with SSD. I hope it provides a meaningful difference in speed, to make the wait worth.
And to other DIY'ers who adds RAM, do you know the brand and model of the RAM used by Apple in there iMac.
At the time of ordering, 4-6 weeks did not seem that long, but after two weeks it feels like a long wait. After ordering the new iMac my old iMac, which was fine till 5/3, seems to begetting slower day by day
Wondering if I should cancel and get the one with out the SSD immediately, can't believe so many people decided to wait to get the one with SSD. I hope it provides a meaningful difference in speed, to make the wait worth.
And to other DIY'ers who adds RAM, do you know the brand and model of the RAM used by Apple in there iMac.
Hang on in there, Karthi,!
If you jump ship, I guarantee you'll feel regret in June!
Don't worry about what RAM might be in your specific machine. Just add RAM in pairs. If you got the right specs and not some dodgy brand, it'll work with whatever Apple put in those first two slots.
If they were to go with upgraded parts for the 27" it wouldn't surprise me. The 27 is more expensive for things other than the display size (CPUs, GPUs, extra Thunderbolt port). Additionally, the 27 -- especially decked out ones -- are bought by power users which really want the biggest bang for their buck. Including tax, shipping (next day is only $50, people), and DIY upgrading memory I spent $3.5K on my iMac.
Apple putting in sub-30nm SSDs would be an awesome gesture that I would welcome with open arms, despite the wait.
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On an unrelated note, I'm finally IPv6 at home! 6to4 works just fine so IPv4-only devices are as happy as they've always been. Apparently the Apple routers are some of the few models out there that support 6to4, and Comcast's 6to4 works -- and I'm surprised to say this -- brilliantly. 10Mbps upstream means connecting to client sites via RDP or Citrix actually feels like I'm on their LAN. No lag at all, just wonderful (as is the 50-60Mbps downstream). Using a Motorola Surfboard 6121.
The iMac also supports MIMO since its wireless card has 3 antennas. Once the iMac shows up, and Lion is released to provide the new MIMO drivers, all my computers (2011 iMac, 2011 MBP) will be on wireless at up to 450Mbps (dual band AE and TCs support wide channels). Shame the iPhone 4 doesn't have a 5GHz wifi antenna, just 2.4GHz (iPads support 5GHz).
Apple putting in sub-30nm SSDs would be an awesome gesture that I would welcome with open arms, despite the wait.
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On an unrelated note, I'm finally IPv6 at home! 6to4 works just fine so IPv4-only devices are as happy as they've always been. Apparently the Apple routers are some of the few models out there that support 6to4, and Comcast's 6to4 works -- and I'm surprised to say this -- brilliantly. 10Mbps upstream means connecting to client sites via RDP or Citrix actually feels like I'm on their LAN. No lag at all, just wonderful (as is the 50-60Mbps downstream). Using a Motorola Surfboard 6121.
The iMac also supports MIMO since its wireless card has 3 antennas. Once the iMac shows up, and Lion is released to provide the new MIMO drivers, all my computers (2011 iMac, 2011 MBP) will be on wireless at up to 450Mbps (dual band AE and TCs support wide channels). Shame the iPhone 4 doesn't have a 5GHz wifi antenna, just 2.4GHz (iPads support 5GHz).
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Yeah, more and more I feel like different SSDs is a plausible explanation for the shipping time difference.
Given how expensive the SSD option is, there can't be a significant enough volume of orders for either 21.5" or 27" for the shipping times to be staggered because of inadequate supplies. So if the 21.5" BTOs are about to ship, and the 27" BTOs are still many weeks away, it seems like different hardware is the most reasonable answer.
mrfoof82, cool about your IPv6 transition! I guess pretty soon we're all going to need to follow....
And yeah, I'm still seeing 5-7 days for the 21.5" models.
Given how expensive the SSD option is, there can't be a significant enough volume of orders for either 21.5" or 27" for the shipping times to be staggered because of inadequate supplies. So if the 21.5" BTOs are about to ship, and the 27" BTOs are still many weeks away, it seems like different hardware is the most reasonable answer.
mrfoof82, cool about your IPv6 transition! I guess pretty soon we're all going to need to follow....
And yeah, I'm still seeing 5-7 days for the 21.5" models.
I certainly hope this is the case. I'm buying a >3K imac as my first Mac. I really hope that Apple shows respect to the buyer's and does include an up-to-date SSD Drive.
The IPv6 transition was much more... boring and mundane than expected.
Comcast's only niggle right now is their IPv4 DNS servers do not have IPv6 resolvers/forwarders configured, but that would only be a problem if a host on your network with an IPv6 address wasn't getting the IPv6 DNS servers from your router for some unforseen reason.
The days of NAT will soon be behind me!
- Buy Motorola Surfboard SB6121 on Amazon for $95.
- Hook up modem.
- Call Comcast and have them provision it. This took longer than expected, due to issues on their end (for a few more weeks they'll have to provision it as an SB6120).
- Open AirPort Utility, and under Advanced set IPv6 to Tunnel.
- Enter Comcast's published IPv6 DNS servers for the IPv6 DNS server entries.
- Restart Time Capsule.
- Reconnect devices to wireless/wired network, or have them get a new DHCP lease. Check to see that it has an IPv6 address (iOS 4.2 and up has a working IPv6 stack, but it doesn't really use it).
- Break out the party favors, because it's not going to be exciting otherwise.
Comcast's only niggle right now is their IPv4 DNS servers do not have IPv6 resolvers/forwarders configured, but that would only be a problem if a host on your network with an IPv6 address wasn't getting the IPv6 DNS servers from your router for some unforseen reason.
The days of NAT will soon be behind me!
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Hmmm, I can't seem to reproduce it now. Either it changed to 2-4 and has since changed back, or the browser on my work laptop was extremely slow to update when I clicked the radio button for SSD. Could've sworn it showed the SSD option and 2-4 days, but who knows. Sorry for the false alarm!