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whookam said:
Yes It is a long time to wait! I based my decision on a few things. Apple have changed their non BTO machines lea time to 3 weeks I recon production must be getting better, My reseller says my next deadline for delivery is in 3 weeks, (which matches the applestores estimate) yet with all the deadlines that have been missed I don't think it will be met. Given that I think the mac will not arrive, is there any option that is more appealing. I also think that when machines are short Apple will supply The Apple Store before resellers. so I can wait 3-? weeks for a standard mac or 4-? for a better one. The decision is yours! Also FC express is £130 off which I would have had to pay £200 and claim the £130 back from Apple (so my reseller says). I also get 10month interest free from apple. My reseller is very good. I just think apple will sell to applestore first. Time will tell.
don
STATS REPORT: 8-18 am Edition
We actually had ONE 8-20 order ship!---now only 54 more orders to go by Friday
SNOWDOG has received his Mac!.....
Bad news is another pre-8-20 order slipped from 8-18 to 9-6 (GeckoHD). My heart goes out to you Gecko. That makes 3 orders that were pending before Aug 20 that have slipped.
Aside from that, the debate continues on whether ITSA in this post is blowing smoke up our butts with his announcement that MacMall has received their big 300+ order.
All this news and the latest stats are on the Spreadsheet
See you in several hours for the USA afternoon stats report.
--E
We actually had ONE 8-20 order ship!---now only 54 more orders to go by Friday
SNOWDOG has received his Mac!.....
Bad news is another pre-8-20 order slipped from 8-18 to 9-6 (GeckoHD). My heart goes out to you Gecko. That makes 3 orders that were pending before Aug 20 that have slipped.
Aside from that, the debate continues on whether ITSA in this post is blowing smoke up our butts with his announcement that MacMall has received their big 300+ order.
All this news and the latest stats are on the Spreadsheet
See you in several hours for the USA afternoon stats report.
--E
MacMall shipping
I actually gave some thought to posting this info because I knew it would cause a wide range of reactions.
I cannot prove the number of machine that MacMall received but I was told that it was around 200 (not 300+). It apparently took care of a large percentage of the existing backorders there.
Fedex says my box is now in town even though it was 2 day shipping. If it does not go out on the truck this morning I will have to go and get it since I cannot wait another day knowing it is so close.
I will post a pic to help clear some of the *smoke*.
-Roger
solo-act said:
I actually gave some thought to posting this info because I knew it would cause a wide range of reactions.
I cannot prove the number of machine that MacMall received but I was told that it was around 200 (not 300+). It apparently took care of a large percentage of the existing backorders there.
Fedex says my box is now in town even though it was 2 day shipping. If it does not go out on the truck this morning I will have to go and get it since I cannot wait another day knowing it is so close.
I will post a pic to help clear some of the *smoke*.
-Roger
No 6800's before 31 August
I spoke with two people at the Online store today in the UK and the first hinted I might get mine before the estimated date of the 31st of August -- but the second rep said there is no way they are getting any 6800 cards in machines and out the door before the 31st of August.
Problem being I'm going on holiday on the 31st
I am tempted to cancel right at the last minute. That'll show 'em!
thedogcow said:
I spoke with two people at the Online store today in the UK and the first hinted I might get mine before the estimated date of the 31st of August -- but the second rep said there is no way they are getting any 6800 cards in machines and out the door before the 31st of August.
Problem being I'm going on holiday on the 31st
I am tempted to cancel right at the last minute. That'll show 'em!
RogerB said:I actually gave some thought to posting this info because I knew it would cause a wide range of reactions.
I cannot prove the number of machine that MacMall received but I was told that it was around 200 (not 300+). It apparently took care of a large percentage of the existing backorders there.
Fedex says my box is now in town even though it was 2 day shipping. If it does not go out on the truck this morning I will have to go and get it since I cannot wait another day knowing it is so close.
I will post a pic to help clear some of the *smoke*.
-Roger
I do not doubt that your machine shipped. I just find it frustrating that I ordered 6 weeks before you and you have your machine on the way and I do not. And we ordered from the same place. To me, that's not right - but I don't blame you for it. In a few weeks, we will all have our new machines and everyone will be happy.
Did you take advantage of the free ram deal, BTW?
MacMall Shipping
That is reasonable. I almost did not post info about Keith because I was afraid some people would be angry and hassle him. So far so good...
From what I have heard, I suspect that your machine will ship shortly. Are you checking status online?
Here is a direct link - just put in your orderid and ship to zip code. It works for ClubMac orders too:
https://www.macmall.com/macmall/sho...play_info.asp?OrderID=x12345&ShipTo_Zip=55555
I did get the free RAM deal - kinda hard to pass that one up. I am also going to add another 4GB since it will really help the speed for what I do. I often have hundreds of windows open at the same time.
-Roger
DWKlink said:
That is reasonable. I almost did not post info about Keith because I was afraid some people would be angry and hassle him. So far so good...
From what I have heard, I suspect that your machine will ship shortly. Are you checking status online?
Here is a direct link - just put in your orderid and ship to zip code. It works for ClubMac orders too:
https://www.macmall.com/macmall/sho...play_info.asp?OrderID=x12345&ShipTo_Zip=55555
I did get the free RAM deal - kinda hard to pass that one up. I am also going to add another 4GB since it will really help the speed for what I do. I often have hundreds of windows open at the same time.
-Roger
Correction on my post. I scan rather quickly to minimize time. It was actually ITSA in this post who made the claim that 300+ arrived at MacMall. Sorry RogerB you're under enough scrutiny as it is receiving your mac sooner than earlier MacMall orders. --ERogerB said:I actually gave some thought to posting this info because I knew it would cause a wide range of reactions.
I cannot prove the number of machine that MacMall received but I was told that it was around 200 (not 300+). It apparently took care of a large percentage of the existing backorders there. I will post a pic to help clear some of the *smoke*.
-Roger
solo-act said:
No problem. With this thread you have to scan quickly to keep up! I have never seen a single thread with this many posts!
Yeah I knew I would get some heat over it. I just thought that some people who have not ordered yet would give it a shot if they thought that they would not have to wait as long.
I think that we will see a flood of shipped orders over the next week and those that have been waiting will be happy campers.
-Roger
RogerB said:
Yup, i've checked my status. Still backordered. Maybe there were other people who had their order expidited and moved to the front of the line as well. I just find it hard to believe that in 2 hours there were 200 people who ordered before me - considering that there were only 400 backorders before this initial shipment went out. but anything is possible.
RogerB said:I actually gave some thought to posting this info because I knew it would cause a wide range of reactions.
I cannot prove the number of machine that MacMall received but I was told that it was around 200 (not 300+). It apparently took care of a large percentage of the existing backorders there.
Fedex says my box is now in town even though it was 2 day shipping. If it does not go out on the truck this morning I will have to go and get it since I cannot wait another day knowing it is so close.
I will post a pic to help clear some of the *smoke*.
-Roger
I just don't understand why I can't find anyone else at MacMall willing to say that they received any more than a small handful of them. When I ordered mine on 7/22, the guy told me they had a little over 200 on backorder which suggests that they certainly had less than 200 on backorder way back on June 9th. If that was the case and they did receive a shipment of 200 recently, both DWKlink and the other guy I've been in contact with should've gotten a shipping confirmation since they both ordered on 6/9. This doesn't add up.
First Impressions
I can only offer a few temporal first impressions since I have yet to migrate my "old" computer. The 2.5 sucessfully passed the extended AHT. I was sweating during the logic board test and so it seemed did the computer. All fans were on full blast during the suite of tests and the super drive was wining like a jet taxing on the tarmac.
This computer is much quieter than my G4 but not silent. In a quiet room you know its on. I get fan rev-ups when even doing simple things like turning the visulizer on in iTunes. At the moment, I only have 512K RAM while awaiting another 1 GB from Crucial. Perhaps the machine is RAM starved and working harder. The Maxtor drive is reasonably quiet.
My machine does generate heat. Placing a hand near the exhaust fans in the back confirms that. Not hair dryer level but more like the basebord in central heating.
All in all, I am happy. I look forward to getting a firewire cable today, migrate my applications, install the RAM and see how it really performs.
I called MacConnection this morning to cancel my order. I encourage you all to keep calling local Apple stores. They seem to be getting "real" stock at the moment. I don't regret paying the sales tax and losing the RAM thing. It was one of those cupon rebate deals anyway and probably generic 4 x 256. I feel a lot more sane at this point and its hard to put a price on that!
I can only offer a few temporal first impressions since I have yet to migrate my "old" computer. The 2.5 sucessfully passed the extended AHT. I was sweating during the logic board test and so it seemed did the computer. All fans were on full blast during the suite of tests and the super drive was wining like a jet taxing on the tarmac.
This computer is much quieter than my G4 but not silent. In a quiet room you know its on. I get fan rev-ups when even doing simple things like turning the visulizer on in iTunes. At the moment, I only have 512K RAM while awaiting another 1 GB from Crucial. Perhaps the machine is RAM starved and working harder. The Maxtor drive is reasonably quiet.
My machine does generate heat. Placing a hand near the exhaust fans in the back confirms that. Not hair dryer level but more like the basebord in central heating.
All in all, I am happy. I look forward to getting a firewire cable today, migrate my applications, install the RAM and see how it really performs.
I called MacConnection this morning to cancel my order. I encourage you all to keep calling local Apple stores. They seem to be getting "real" stock at the moment. I don't regret paying the sales tax and losing the RAM thing. It was one of those cupon rebate deals anyway and probably generic 4 x 256. I feel a lot more sane at this point and its hard to put a price on that!
MacMall Shipping
One thing that may not be being taken into account - Keith is in corporate sales. You may have been getting info that does not include those orders.
At any rate, even though it seems like all of the shipping issues have more to do with voodoo than reality, I think all of these business are trying to do the best that they can.
We will all see them soon (after consulting my voodoo doll ).
-Roger
Studio Dweller said:
One thing that may not be being taken into account - Keith is in corporate sales. You may have been getting info that does not include those orders.
At any rate, even though it seems like all of the shipping issues have more to do with voodoo than reality, I think all of these business are trying to do the best that they can.
We will all see them soon (after consulting my voodoo doll
).-Roger
RogerB said:One thing that may not be being taken into account - Keith is in corporate sales. You may have been getting info that does not include those orders.
At any rate, even though it seems like all of the shipping issues have more to do with voodoo than reality, I think all of these business are trying to do the best that they can.
We will all see them soon (after consulting my voodoo doll
-Roger
I just had a long conversation with my rep at ClubMac. He said there is NO WAY that any units have shipped from ClubMac/MacMall yet. He said he is very confident that they will recieve an order of a little over 200 of them on friday. But until then, they have not seen one 2.5 there. He said he's worked there for 3 years and knows the company backwards and forwards.
I'm not sure what information you have received Roger, but after conveying the information that Keith told me, my rep said that what you were told is impossible.
If you wouldn't mind PM'ing me with your email address, I could pass it along to my rep so he can get more info on your order. But I truly don't understand how you could have already received a tracking number from FedEx.
To all of those early orderers from ClubMac and MacMall, hang in there - Friday should hopefully be the day for us too!
If Apple keeps on doing this stuff, Powermac G5's are gonna end up like Ferrari's! : The second hand cars are more expensive than some new ones! Because if you order a new one, you have to wait a heck of a long time to get one..
Imagine this: Dual 2.5 on ebay: 3500 buck.. Dual 3.0, 2999 bucks..
Then maybe a Mac becomes a longtime investment, like paintings or expensive comics..
Imagine this: Dual 2.5 on ebay: 3500 buck.. Dual 3.0, 2999 bucks..
Then maybe a Mac becomes a longtime investment, like paintings or expensive comics..
As someone once said to me "This blows Goats"
I just wish I had an alternative to a 2.5 G5 right now, but as I don't, I'll have to shut up and take it.
As someone said above, this crap is seriously impacting my productivity - which of course is my own fault for being so excitable - but it doesn't make it any easier to get on with work, when you know how much easier it will be when the G5 shows up.
MacNabitt, I wouldn't consider changing your order to be honest mate. I was actually watching your order as on all the lists you are the UK order before mine (15/6) and I haven't had any indication that my online Apple Store order will ship anytime soon either, so I wouldn't jump reseller ship just yet.
Grass always greener etc...
I just wish I had an alternative to a 2.5 G5 right now, but as I don't, I'll have to shut up and take it.
As someone said above, this crap is seriously impacting my productivity - which of course is my own fault for being so excitable - but it doesn't make it any easier to get on with work, when you know how much easier it will be when the G5 shows up.
MacNabitt, I wouldn't consider changing your order to be honest mate. I was actually watching your order as on all the lists you are the UK order before mine (15/6) and I haven't had any indication that my online Apple Store order will ship anytime soon either, so I wouldn't jump reseller ship just yet.
Grass always greener etc...
DWKlink said:
With respect to you, the person who says it is not possible does not know what he is talking about. My G5 is on the truck and out for delivery. Their official line is that they will be shipping a bunch within the next week. However they have shipped quite a few as evidenced by the change in the total number of backorders.
If he thinks it is impossible that they have shipped any, I would change reps for future orders. It is not only possible but a certainly.
Again, no disrespect to you. You are just going by what you are being told.
It looks like the pic I should post needs to be of the MacMall/ClubMac etc. shipping label.
-Roger
RogerB said:
Again, I mean no disrespect for you either. I'm just trying to sort out all this information. If you wouldn't mind PMing me your email address, my rep can look at your order and see whats going on.
Otherwise I have no way to know who to believe.
Either way, good luck with your machine, and I do hope you receive it soon.
RogerB said:With respect to you, the person who says it is not possible does not know what he is talking about. My G5 is on the truck and out for delivery. Their official line is that they will be shipping a bunch within the next week. However they have shipped quite a few as evidenced by the change in the total number of backorders.
If he thinks it is impossible that they have shipped any, I would change reps for future orders. It is not only possible but a certainly.
Again, no disrespect to you. You are just going by what you are being told.
It looks like the pic I should post needs to be of the MacMall/ClubMac etc. shipping label.
-Roger
Why not put an end to it and send a PM to either DWKlink or myself with your email address or better yet, your order #. That would conclusively prove or disprove this once and for all. If Keith is on the money, I'll be happy to eat crow and be the first to congratulate you on your shiny new G5.
MacMall Shipping
I am going to pass on providing my order info because I can only see bad things good coming out of it. Please understand that I do not want to do anything to burn any bridges for the future. I posted the info about using a specific rep because he has always gotten great results for me and my clients and others might want to use him. For example, if someone just placed an Apple Store order with a 6 week estimate, I would consider placing another order with Keith and taking the first one available. I have no doubt that MacMall will be filling orders much faster than that.
Here is my latest tracking info:
http://www.centralpets.com/g5_tracking.jpg
As I think I said a while back - they are being shipped from their warehouse in Memphis. Not from California.
-Roger
DWKlink said:
I am going to pass on providing my order info because I can only see bad things good coming out of it. Please understand that I do not want to do anything to burn any bridges for the future. I posted the info about using a specific rep because he has always gotten great results for me and my clients and others might want to use him. For example, if someone just placed an Apple Store order with a 6 week estimate, I would consider placing another order with Keith and taking the first one available. I have no doubt that MacMall will be filling orders much faster than that.
Here is my latest tracking info:
http://www.centralpets.com/g5_tracking.jpg
As I think I said a while back - they are being shipped from their warehouse in Memphis. Not from California.
-Roger
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