Apple Xserve G5 - Now Shipping

[porovaara]

Wouldn't it be pretty stupid to announce the systems and let people start ordering them before the systems were complete?

Uhm and just how long have people been waiting that ordered g5 xserves all ready?

Apple is notorious for announcing and then missing ship times, however in the past they were always able to pawn the blame off on Motorola.

 

[Mr Maui]

Anyway, the sheer thrill I had when I first started playing with it and learning to program it exceeded even the joy of the dual-2 G5 I got last September.

Agreed.

And, no, it wasn't my first computer (which was a TRS-80 Model III, from back before they even had schools and we all lived in trees). But it was my first "wow" computer.

Still have my Commodore 128 and about 50 issues of the magazines that were out at the time (guess it's time to let go of the past ... LOL)

Except, of course, that Windows still sucks compared to the Mac OS. 🙂

I can see we agree on many issues. 😀

 

[dex22]

Remember, it's still only 8:27 in Cupertino...

Plenty of time yet for an announcement, even if it isn't new machines...

 

[Wonder Boy]

What do you call Mac OS X 10.3.3?

I am betting on Power Mac updates coming out in a week.

-Nathaniel

me too. a lot if not all the special deals (memory and the like) end the 27th.

 

[captain kirk]

Remember, it's still only 8:27 in Cupertino...

Plenty of time yet for an announcement, even if it isn't new machines...

You have a point, whenever speed bumps occur and the uk site goes down it is normally around 5pm UK time, it is currently 4.29pm so there is still time, credit card is ready and waiting!

 

[Mr Maui]

Remember, it's still only 8:27 in Cupertino...

Plenty of time yet for an announcement, even if it isn't new machines...

ANNOUNCING ...

There will be NO announcements today, thank you. Please leave the auditorium in a single-file line and in an orderly fashion. Return to your previously-scheduled life. 😉

 

[captain kirk]

ANNOUNCING ...

There will be NO announcements today, thank you. Please leave the auditorium in a single-file line and in an orderly fashion. Return to your previously-scheduled life. 😉

Unfortunately my previously scheduled life went out the window this morning when I didn;t go to work after spending all nite with my head down the toilet. It's been very relaxing lying in bed all day reading posts, doing some web shopping etc, maybe I should get ill more often 😀

 

[jsw]

Could someone please tell me how many posts I need before I am no longer a newbie? I find the term demeaning. 🙂

30.

 

[jsw]

Could someone please tell me how many posts I need before I am no longer a newbie? I find the term demeaning. 🙂

So just post 6 more "when is the next G5 coming out" questions, and you'll be a "member"!

 

[Mr Maui]

Could someone please tell me how many posts I need before I am no longer a newbie? I find the term demeaning. 🙂

I was a "newbie" for nearly two years ... have officially graduated to "member". Yay for me!

 

[Mr Maui]

Only been six months for me,

By the way, a lot of people have been putting faith in the fact that the ram promotion ends on 27th march as an indicator to imminent powermac updates, however in the UK the ram promo is scheduled to run until may 🙁

Maybe it means nothing. Maybe it means something. Maybe it means we are grasping at any possible straw in hopes of a much-anticipated update to the Apple line.

 

[Esben]

Really Now

no longer a newbie

God I'm bored

Really!!! That didn't show 😛

No seriously - here's to the announcement of the new PowerBook in about 10 min... well you can always hope...right?

I so want one for easter...What else can I do during the holidays?

 

[dex22]

Well, it's now 9:02 in Cupertino. Phooey! Rats and blast! Darn it!

I have more choice words, but it looks like I'll have to sit on my credit card issuer's money for another week or two.

 

[MacVault]

Ahh! It's after 9am and nothing from that frickin fruit company in Cupertino! What a bunch of *****. They better have some good stuff to release after making us wait all this time! Bring on the new video iPods, the iBox, updated PowerMacs, etc.!!!!!!!!

😡 😡 😡

edit: AND TELL US WHO THE WINNER IS OF THE COLD MOUNTAIN SWEEPSTAKES! I know it has to be me, just want it confirmed! 😀

 

[PretendPCuser]

For real?

It's the little folding thingy sitting next to my brand new IIci. 😀

wOOt! The IIci's are shipping?! WHOOOO-HOOOOOOO!

I am *so* buying one of those bad boys. My day just got a whole lot brighter. 🙄

 

[jsw]

wOOt! The IIci's are shipping?! WHOOOO-HOOOOOOO!

I am *so* buying one of those bad boys. My day just got a whole lot brighter. 🙄

NO!!! Don't buy the IIci yet! The ci Rev B's are going to be announced any day now!

 

[Dreadnought]

Does Apple ever ship anything on time? Who's doing their materials planning...Bozo the clown?

You really made my day. This was the first good laugh all day! But I think you are on to something!

 

[morkintosh]

Whenever people talk about the IIci I always think of 2c-i. I guess I'm not old enough to think of the IIci instead.

IIci or IIc ... they've both got a lot of life in them, just gotta get that port of lynx working and then I'll be set! If it aint' broke don't fix [change] it: seems to be apples mantra lately

 

[Dreadnought]

The new powermacs will probably be announced when the xserves are all delivered. That way, most people don't return it and get a tower. Well, that's what apple is thinking.

 

[daveL]

I say it is probably Apple having problems with their own chipsets. Remember Apple is responsible for a large portion of the bus system. If they are shipping single procs now perhaps they are having trouble with the higher frequency bus on the 970fx with dual CPUs.

Exactly how would a 2 GHz 970FX, single or dual, require a higher frequency bus than a 2 GHz 970? Answer: It doesn't.

 

[rog]

Hooray Motorola! Er, I mean IBM. You finally shipped a new version of a processor that no faster than the one you've been producing for the past 7 months. Or maybe this is Apple's fault. Who knows, but it still feels like 1999, as each cycle between updates gets longer and less impressive, (e.g. 10 months for a 20% Powerbook speed bump). $3000 for an SP 2GHz? What are they smoking. Would have been a bad deal a year ago. Today, it's a joke.

 

[hayesk]

Hooray Motorola! Er, I mean IBM. You finally shipped a new version of a processor that no faster than the one you've been producing for the past 7 months. Or maybe this is Apple's fault. Who knows, but it still feels like 1999, as each cycle between updates gets longer and less impressive, (e.g. 10 months for a 20% Powerbook speed bump). $3000 for an SP 2GHz? What are they smoking. Would have been a bad deal a year ago. Today, it's a joke.

Go find me a Win2K Server with the same specs for less than $3000. Don't forget to price in the unlimited client license.

 

[a17inchFuture]

Hooray Motorola! Er, I mean IBM. You finally shipped a new version of a processor that no faster than the one you've been producing for the past 7 months. Or maybe this is Apple's fault. Who knows, but it still feels like 1999, as each cycle between updates gets longer and less impressive, (e.g. 10 months for a 20% Powerbook speed bump). $3000 for an SP 2GHz? What are they smoking. Would have been a bad deal a year ago. Today, it's a joke.

I agree, Apple needs to wake up: THEY ARE FALLING BEHIND IN EVERY FRICKING FACET! except of course the only thing they visibly care about anymore, itunes and ipods, whowooo!!! Now we can listen to music on the road . . . still . . . and listen to more than one cd per trip . . . still.

I can't believe that they delayed the Xserve's a month, and that was merely a front, cause they really delayed the singles a month, and the doubles twice as long?? Everyone here should be ******* pissed that they are so damn behind but still have the balls to charge four times as much as any non-mac comp.

And as far as Pbooks go, don't even get me started. As far as I am concerned, everyone at Apple should put down whatever the heck they are doing and turn their attnetion toward pbooks. I mean, my god, the powerbook is a piece of out-dated crap now (not really, but in comparison to what it should be, and where apple should be with them), and it is still selling the 8th overall position at Apple, and the highest selling of all computers they sell. IMAGINE IF THEY UPDATED TO G5's!!!! They would be first on the entire apple site!!

I have to say, I think Apple is really hurting there business alot. The more they wait for stupid as conventions and stuff, to "announce" their new computers, the more they hurt their business.

And, oh my god, if they announce another G4 line before the g5 pbooks, I swear, I will drive to Cupertino and start spraying.

(not really, i don't own a gun, nor would i ever care enough to drive to california or shoot someone, let alone many!)

 

[a17inchFuture]

I agree, Apple needs to wake up: THEY ARE FALLING BEHIND IN EVERY FRICKING FACET! except of course the only thing they visibly care about anymore, itunes and ipods, whowooo!!! Now we can listen to music on the road . . . still . . . and listen to more than one cd per trip . . . still.

I can't believe that they delayed the Xserve's a month, and that was merely a front, cause they really delayed the singles a month, and the doubles twice as long?? Everyone here should be ******* pissed that they are so damn behind but still have the balls to charge four times as much as any non-mac comp.

And as far as Pbooks go, don't even get me started. As far as I am concerned, everyone at Apple should put down whatever the heck they are doing and turn their attnetion toward pbooks. I mean, my god, the powerbook is a piece of out-dated crap now (not really, but in comparison to what it should be, and where apple should be with them), and it is still selling the 8th overall position at Apple, and the highest selling of all computers they sell. IMAGINE IF THEY UPDATED TO G5's!!!! They would be first on the entire apple site!!

I have to say, I think Apple is really hurting there business alot. The more they wait for stupid as conventions and stuff, to "announce" their new computers, the more they hurt their business.

And, oh my god, if they announce another G4 line before the g5 pbooks, I swear, I will drive to Cupertino and start spraying.

(not really, i don't own a gun, nor would i ever care enough to drive to california or shoot someone, let alone many!)

And for those who think waiting for current supplys of PB G4's to sell out, etc. . . . ask Nintendo how the waiting strategy goes. They waited longer than sony and microsoft to perfect their next-gen console (which is now the gamecube, and look at where it got them: last place in a great market, a heavily reduced price (more than 50 percent chearper tha xbox or ps2) that must hurt net income greatly, and thrid-party suppliers that virtually cancel the making of their games on teh gamecube console as often as they make them.


P.S. Yeah, I'm replying to myself, you gotta problem??

 

[captain kirk]

And as far as Pbooks go, don't even get me started. As far as I am concerned, everyone at Apple should put down whatever the heck they are doing and turn their attnetion toward pbooks. I mean, my god, the powerbook is a piece of out-dated crap now (not really, but in comparison to what it should be, and where apple should be with them), and it is still selling the 8th overall position at Apple, and the highest selling of all computers they sell. IMAGINE IF THEY UPDATED TO G5's!!!! They would be first on the entire apple site!!

I have to say, I think Apple is really hurting there business alot. The more they wait for stupid as conventions and stuff, to "announce" their new computers, the more they hurt their business.

And, oh my god, if they announce another G4 line before the g5 pbooks, I swear, I will drive to Cupertino and start spraying.

(not really, i don't own a gun, nor would i ever care enough to drive to california or shoot someone, let alone many!)

Sorry to have to say this but I really think you will be disappointed. There will be one more G4 revision at 1.5Ghz before the powerbooks go G5. There is no point constantly whining about it though. You think Apple doesn't know that the world wants a G5 powerbook? If they could produce one right now that was viable then they would. You forget the serious implications of a rushed to market product that goes badly wrong, (think windows 98!!!!)

Anyway sorry to get the hump it just winds me up that every thread ends up talking about non existent G5 powerbooks!