Apple Releases New PowerMacs

[JohnnyTwoToes]

"late july early august"

i just talked to one of the rep's at my local apple store (columbus, oh) about the when they were expected to get the 2.5's in the store. he told me they were expecting to get them in late july/early august. blech. oh well. im just hoping they don't get pushed back to "mid to late august."

www.waltzillustration.com

 

[invaLPsion]

Apple isn't telling resellers anything...

I emailed Powermax and a representative of theirs emailed back saying that Apple hasn't told them anything as to when the 2.5s are shipping.

 

[iriejedi]

Some day soon

Not to be criticle - but I say Mac Rumors has a better chance of knowing early info then an Apple retail employee ever would.

My experience so far is that many of them just work there for the check and not for the love of the device or employee discount.

A coworker who is dating an Apple Store employee got me this Top Seekrit info (and if that level of "inside" info is not worth spilling a seekrit or two nothing is....) "the delay is to make sure they are perfect".

So hold on to the hope that 7/30 stands but do NOT bet any money on it...

Irie J

i just talked to one of the rep's at my local apple store (columbus, oh) about the when they were expected to get the 2.5's in the store. he told me they were expecting to get them in late july/early august. blech. oh well. im just hoping they don't get pushed back to "mid to late august."

www.waltzillustration.com

 

[JohnnyTwoToes]

Not to be criticle - but I say Mac Rumors has a better chance of knowing early info then an Apple retail employee ever would.

My experience so far is that many of them just work there for the check and not for the love of the device or employee discount.

i agree for the most part jedi, but this guy is pretty reliable. he's a pretty straight shooter and i've gotten to establish a repoir with him. if he didnt know im sure he would have told me he didnt like he has in the past.

 

[Billf]

My monitor shipped!!

Yesterday afternoon I checked my order status in the apple Store. The 20in Cinema display still showed a shipping date of on or before 7/26. I got an email this morning that it shipped yesterday and would be here tomorrow. It was shipped Fedex.

The 2.5 G5 still shows an estimated ship date of 7/30.

Anyway- looks like the store isn't updating the estimated ship dates. Maybe the G5 will ship today and I'll have something to connect to this monitor.

 

[belair]

good news

Nice that you get your screen delivered as sceduled. I just hope that they keep their shipping time as well on the 2.5.
Be shure to post us some comments about your new screen. I am not in for a buy right now but I hope I will be next year my CRT is just HUGE. (21 apple). Those new diplays looked really cool on Steves keynote.

 

[klaus]

Nice that you get your screen delivered as sceduled.

Well, actually, it shipped about two weeks ahead of schedule, what's wrong with apple

Be sure to keep us posted with pictures of the box, opening the box, unwrapping the plastic,etc, you get the picture

 

[whookam]

My reseller still has no firm word from Apple about shipping dates in UK

The ETA is meant to be next Monday and shipped to me next day!

 

[klaus]

whookam, I assume you are referring to a display order?
Well, someone from holland on ai forum, said his display has shipped (20") and he ordered it on july 1st.

So, Europe won't be far behind!

 

[whookam]

whookam, I assume you are referring to a display order?
Well, someone from holland on ai forum, said his display has shipped (20") and he ordered it on july 1st.

So, Europe won't be far behind!

Sorry, I was talking about Dual 2.5 Power Macs. I didn't really notice that the topic had drifted towards displays!

 

[DWKlink]

Good or Bad News?

Don't quite know what to make of it, but the ship estimate for a dual 2.5 has gone from "July" to "4-6 weeks" which is a long way off from July. I guess it's good news that at least there's a time frame listed. I'm just not too happy with that time frame...

I placed my order on the first day, so hopefully it should be sooner.

 

[Earl Urly]

Cards

The issue is not that it is hard to make Mac versions, its the fact that manufacturers have to essentially do a second production run for what is basically a small market. If Macs had better interoperability then the manufacturers could just do one huge run, and supply a mac driver and a pc driver. And Apple don't manufacture the card, they contract that out.

This is true, and there are other factors. A company that offers Mac support must be prepared to provide separate tech support for Mac AND also provide it for the long run. AND they have to deal with headaches like drivers breaking with every minor revision of OS X.

I keep having to remind myself that yes, even with the crappy video cards Apple stuffs in the G5s it's wayyyy better than when they had even ****tier OEM boards back in the day, and we only had NuBus or onboard unaccelerated VRAM. And way wayyy better than when I had an Apple IIGS and sat on my ass wondering why more people didn't write programs for 3200 color mode or to take advantage of that wonderful 640 * 480 mode with only 16 colors.

A friend gave me a Radeon 9600 OEM out of his G5 as he waits for his nVidia 6800 and 30". I plopped it in, replacing the nVidia 5200FX and you know what? Except for when I play a quick round of Halo, it doesn't really make a bit of difference. My menus and windows are infinitesmally snappier. And you know what? If fairies and elves were to wave a magic wand and stick a nVidia 6800 Ultra in my 1.8 GHz single G5, I bet I *STILL* wouldn't notice, or even give a rat's ass. And yes I can already hear the peanut gallery saying ooooo now you can run those cool 3D demos that ATI has on their site, to which I say, yeah sure, I will be emotionally fulfilled for about 34 seconds now I have to get back to work. Sheesh.

Apple, to its credit, recognizes that while the nVidia 5200FX is not state of the art, at least in 3D, they don't really NEED that when 85% of its users only need perfunctory 2D and that the application to bring Quartz Extreme to its knees (or a user crazy enough to put it in such a situation,) apart from the occasional benchmark, doesn't exist yet, nor is ever likely to. And if someone DOES want big honking 3D, at least they can get kinda sorta cutting edge.. Apple only claims that its own software and the G5 is state of the art, nothing else.

 

[Soire]

20" on the way... to no Computer.

My 20" aluminum shipped sometime last nite from Sacramento, via FedEx Ground. It should be here in a couple days I guess.

Now, when will my 2.5 get shipped?? I think we're all on the edge of our seats. And mine is a BTO that was ordered two days after release, so I got a shipping date of 8/02. Anybody know generally how big of a REAL difference there would be between stock models shipping and custom?

Patiently waiting... (Eminem style)

 

[Duff-Man]

Don't quite know what to make of it, but the ship estimate for a dual 2.5 has gone from "July" to "4-6 weeks" which is a long way off from July. I guess it's good news that at least there's a time frame listed. I'm just not too happy with that time frame...

I placed my order on the first day, so hopefully it should be sooner.

Duff-Man says....hopefully that 4-6 weeks is for *new* orders and that those of us that placed orders weeks ago are higher in the queue and will get them sooner.....oh yeah!

 

[invaLPsion]

Duff-Man says....hopefully that 4-6 weeks is for *new* orders and that those of us that placed orders weeks ago are higher in the queue and will get them sooner.....oh yeah!

What I was also thinking. Let's hope this is true...

 

[wdlove]

My 20" aluminum shipped sometime last nite from Sacramento, via FedEx Ground. It should be here in a couple days I guess.

Now, when will my 2.5 get shipped?? I think we're all on the edge of our seats. And mine is a BTO that was ordered two days after release, so I got a shipping date of 8/02. Anybody know generally how big of a REAL difference there would be between stock models shipping and custom?

Patiently waiting... (Eminem style)

It will depend on the availability of the custom items that you ordered. At least you have a target date, then is it ships earlier you can be pleasantly surprised. Patience is very important.

 

[gastroboy]

yeah prices in Australia have always sucked major balls. Its pretty damn annoying that we have such a HUGE markup: surely shipping in bulk across the Pacific can't cost THAT much?

As a fellow Aussie I have frequently pointed out that Apple Australia has built in the price of a return flight to Hawaii in their high end range. Take them up on their offer! Have a holiday whilst you shop!

As for bulk shipping I don't think Apple actually does anything that sensible. Back when I sold Macs they always appeared with their individual freight labels on the boxes and the client was made to wear the costs.

After all Mac users by definition are not price conscious. If you were you would have been driven off by Apple and it's distributers long ago. I am so frustrated when I go into an Apple store and am quoted 60 to 100% more for freely available comodities like RAM, FireWire cases, Hard Drives, CD/DVD burners etc. And then they still have no stock!

Guess that is why they have got no business from me in years. In fact my last computer purchase was a PC, as much as I'd like to upgrade my Mac.

 

[wdlove]

As a fellow Aussie I have frequently pointed out that Apple Australia has built in the price of a return flight to Hawaii in their high end range. Take them up on their offer! Have a holiday whilst you shop!

Guess that is why they have got no business from me in years. In fact my last computer purchase was a PC, as much as I'd like to upgrade my Mac.

What type if PC and Mac do you own? Is the PC also sold at a higher price?