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Apple Event August 7th

How soon can you buy?

First time poster long time lurker. Traditionally speaking, if new products are announced, how long until you can actually possess them in the following scenarious:

Event is at 10AM PST (I believe), probably runs an hour,

-Apple stores in Seattle open at 9:30AM PST, will the product be available that day at opening or not until the next day?

-If ordering online is the product available for ordering right after the presentation?
Sub point:​
If they announce on the 7th that the products go on sale on the 14th for example, is there the ability to place the order on the 7th as a means to get a place in the shipping que?​

-Using the MBP as reference from a few months ago; Did people who placed orders right after the announcement have a projected shipping wait of 3-4 weeks and then that corrected itself to a few days shortly thereafter or did it indeed take that long to get them in hand?

Sorry for so many questions and scenarios, but I am hoping to make the right strategic choice in order to have an iMac before classes start on the 20th. I happen to be going through a city with an Apple store next week otherwise there are none to be found near me.

Thanks in advance for what I am sure will be your expert opinions.

-Cheers
 
I am really hoping for iWork updates next week. iLife, that'd be nice too, but since iPhoto is the only program I use in iLife (for now) I'm not as excited for that. I might get excited if iWeb becomes more like RapidWeaver.

All that said, one thing that seems to get forgotten in the rumor cycle is .Mac. Personally, I don't use .Mac. There are features of .Mac that I would like to use, especially when Leopard becomes available. However, the price of the service just doesn't allow me to get overly excited for it. Now, if they dropped the price to $50 per year (or better yet, free) I'd be on board. Time will have to tell whether or not .Mac becomes an attractive purchase.
 
zioxide said:
Yes, but not next week at this event which is specifically for a Mac announcement.

New iPods will come in the fall.
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Yeah, that's kinda what I was driving at.

I don't really care about iMacs, so this is a bummer for me. :(
 
You guys are posting like crazy!

Everytime I click "Next" there's one more page of posts :D

Anyway, great news and about time they released some new iMac's!

I'd love to see a Mac Mini price drop and re-design and a new flash based MacBook :)

Anyway, where's that crew that always comes into threads saying:

"IT'S NOT MAC! It's Mac!"

Too bad I won't be near a computer on the 7th, guess I'll just have to ask someone to check Apple.com and tell me the good/bad news!
 
zioxide said:
Let them wait for Leopard then. Apple isn't going to give it away for free for everyone starting next week. There are still tons of people who would go out and buy a new iMac that day and then still spend $129 in October when Leopard is released. If they gave out vouchers, they would lose out on all of these sales of Leopard. If they don't give out vouchers, the worst that happens is a bunch of people wait 2 months before spending 2 grand on their iMacs.
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You should consider the situation a little more. They will sell new imacs, that is a given. The question is how many reluctant buyers will they have who decide NOT to buy until the machine comes with Leopard? It is not unfathomable that a chunk of those people never end up buying the imac for whatever reason. (can't afford one in a few months, find something better, etc)

It is a perfectly legit worry.
 
pazreal said:
First time poster long time lurker. Traditionally speaking, if new products are announced, how long until you can actually possess them in the following scenarious:

Event is at 10AM PST (I believe), probably runs an hour,

-Apple stores in Seattle open at 9:30AM PST, will the product be available that day at opening or not until the next day?

-If ordering online is the product available for ordering right after the presentation?
Sub point:​
If they announce on the 7th that the products go on sale on the 14th for example, is there the ability to place the order on the 7th as a means to get a place in the shipping que?​
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it isn't always the same amount of time until the products are shipped, but you are always able to order them as soon as the store comes up after the keynote. Even if iMacs are in the stores later that day they would not be in the stores half an hour before they are announced, more likely they would be there the next day.
 
Personally I'm hoping for new iPods but I guess it's more likely to be new iMacs. Oh well. It'll be nice to see what Apple comes up with.
 
cleanup said:
Personally I'm hoping for new iPods but I guess it's more likely to be new iMacs. Oh well. It'll be nice to see what Apple comes up with.
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That bug you have under your name really had me going--)))) I thought some critter found its way into my iMac--))))

Good one! :D
 
Haha, I almost blew on my screen before realizing the bugger wasn't real.

Anyways, WOOOOOOOO!! I can't wait, can't wait. Finally!
 
A bit disappointing because I had been hoping for an full size iPod update (even though in the back of my mind I thought it was unlikely...). Here's to September! *raises fist in air* :)
 
About FRACKING time.

I wonder which Macs are in need of an update? Oh, I know, ALL of them except for the laptops. Let's take a stroll down the Buyer's Guide lane:

* Mac Mini - Last release: September 6, 2006
* iMac - Last release: September 6, 2006
* Mac Pro - Last release: April 4, 2007 (if you actually count this, since it was nothing but a speed bump)
* XServe - Last release: August 7, 2006

It would be so nice if Apple spent even one day NOT yammering about the iPhone. Oh, wait, it can't because it's sunk so much of its staff time and resources into it that Leopard and the entire desktop lineup are suffering and they need a distraction. Pay no attention to that year-old technology behind the curtain...

Somehow, I knew this kind of thing was going to happen this year when Apple ceased being Apple Computer and became a "lifestyle" company. They'd better hit a home run next week, I'm so sick of hearing about the iPhone.
 
I gave up waiting for the new iMacs a while ago & have been quite happy with my C2D 20"

That said, I am terribly excited to see what's announced.

Finally, some Mac excitement...
 
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