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Dual 2.5GHz PowerMacs Shipping

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DWKlink said:
I, for one, don't know what i will do with my time when this computer finally arrives. I've spent almost everyday since November scouring these rumor boards for first a release, and now a ship date.

I'm afraid my life will be pretty empty... :eek:
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:eek: ummm... won't you try and be productive with your new super computer?? - that's what Ill be doing!! - rendering lots of radiosity images, and animations at 7x the speed I do currently!! :D
 
apple CALLED?

G5support.com said:
2.5GHz models start shipping next week! :) :) :)

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I read this as well. why would apple call THIS person to let them know it would be shipping? Does apple call people?

sdp
 
invaLPsion said:
OMG!

A voice called me and in a mystical and freaky voice said "seven days."

Is Apple pulling prank calls? :D
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By coincidence I watched The Ring for the first time last night.

Which, sadly, means I shall die the day before my G5 ships.

Figures. :(
 
monthly payments

any idea how much a credit card payment per month would be for a 4,000 charge? that's how much i plan to spend as soon as i order my 2.5. :cool:
 
Here's a reported delivery from the Apple Discussions:
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...and until we see proof, I don't believe that anyone has recieved dual 2.5's yet. The Apple post says "Money Talks! $$" but why would one person's $2999 talk any louder than another's $2999?
 
$$ talks?

I agree. This is a very unconvincing report. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a dual 2.0. I was at the Apple Store yesterday in Burlingame, CA. They won't even see a demo unit until the first week of August (maybe).
 
weezer160 said:
any idea how much a credit card payment per month would be for a 4,000 charge? that's how much i plan to spend as soon as i order my 2.5. :cool:
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It will all depend on the amount of interest that you are being charged on your Credit Card. Also if you pay the minimum due or not.
 
weezer160 said:
any idea how much a credit card payment per month would be for a 4,000 charge? that's how much i plan to spend as soon as i order my 2.5. :cool:
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As wdlove asked, what is your interest rate and your monthly minimum payment? Of course, that's how the credit card companies make their money and drive people into debt, so you have to be careful - if you simply pay the miniimum payments every month, you end up paying twice as much in the end in interest, if not more. As a result, (and since I don't like throwing my hard-earned money away!), I pay my credit card bills off in full the day I get them. :cool:

Give me your credit card's interest rate and minimum payment, along with your payment strategy aand I'll figure it out for you - mind you, it's simple so you could just figure it out as easily as me, which begs the question, why did you ask this in the first place? :confused:
 
~Shard~ said:
As wdlove asked, what is your interest rate and your monthly minimum payment? Of course, that's how the credit card companies make their money and drive people into debt, so you have to be careful - if you simply pay the miniimum payments every month, you end up paying twice as much in the end in interest, if not more. As a result, (and since I don't like throwing my hard-earned money away!), I pay my credit card bills off in full the day I get them. :cool:

Give me your credit card's interest rate and minimum payment, along with your payment strategy aand I'll figure it out for you - mind you, it's simple so you could just figure it out as easily as me, which begs the question, why did you ask this in the first place? :confused:
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i don't know, i've never used it before! i just know i have a credit limit close to 5 digits and this is my first purchase with a credit card (i'm always good at bills, so i trust myself with the payments). probably low, i assume, but i plan to pay this motha off in about... oh, say, 18 months. :cool:
 
Essefgy said:
By coincidence I watched The Ring for the first time last night.

Which, sadly, means I shall die the day before my G5 ships.

Figures. :(
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Can you cancel your order before you die? I'd like to bump my queue up a few notches if at all possible... :D

If my order doesn't ship on 7/30...i'm just going to cancel my order... I have waited so long and I move into dorms on august 8th. I don't even know how to use FRIGGIN MACS YET. I don't want to learn how to use an OS during school...

meh
 
"If my order doesn't ship on 7/30...i'm just going to cancel my order... I have waited so long and I move into dorms on august 8th. I don't even know how to use FRIGGIN MACS YET. I don't want to learn how to use an OS during school..."

Not to sound like a homer, but the learning curve on Macs is about zero. Don't trade a few weeks impatience for a lifetime of PC misery.
 
weezer160 said:
i don't know, i've never used it before! i just know i have a credit limit close to 5 digits and this is my first purchase with a credit card (i'm always good at bills, so i trust myself with the payments). probably low, i assume, but i plan to pay this motha off in about... oh, say, 18 months. :cool:
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Dude, why not just use Apple financing? It's sure to be better than your credit card is going to hit you up on interest, probably by a lot.

We ordered 5 for the studio at work to start (2 days after they were anounced) and added the 256 mb 9800 Pro to the boxes. Other than that they're stock.We're adding 4 gigs of ram ourselves, way cheaper(kingston). My only worry is that from what I've been reading the vid cards can add to the ship date. Not a huge deal but the studios been doing way more high res work and the art directors are on rapidly dying on old g4's (on OS9) and need the current studio machines to go over to them. I'm getting really sick of tossing out prefs,, rebuilding desktops, adn their consistent whinning about how slow their machines are :rolleyes: .

We ordered 2 2.5's for servers as well (standard vid), so we'll see if they come first. We looked long and hard at X Serves but decided because we use external raids and already own the Panther Server licences, it made more sense to go with the 2.5 dualies. They'll be replacing 2 dual 800's that we currently use as the main servers running Jag Server. I can't wait to instal and implement Panther Server! Coming from a Windoz/*NIX IT backgound I'm very impressed with the speed at which Apple is rolling out what will soon be a robust, secure Server product that will be comfortable in any environment. I post in a number of hard core *NIX forums and believe me the *NIX geeks are really excited about what Apple is doing :)

Well, sorry for being so long winded.... didn't plan on it. So, to conclude, does anyone know if the upgraded ATI cards are going to add a lot to the ship date. Thanks in advance for any info.
 
weezer160 said:
i don't know, i've never used it before! i just know i have a credit limit close to 5 digits and this is my first purchase with a credit card (I'm always good at bills, so i trust myself with the payments). probably low, i assume, but i plan to pay this motha off in about... oh, say, 18 months. :cool:
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You are to be congratulated for your mature way of looking at credit cards. Paying them off early is to your advantage. I still think that a credit card is the best way to proceed.
 
Oh man. I dreamt last night that I actually went to my reseller to pick up my G5. As I held the box in my hand I was so excited. But then I thought : wait a minute they are supposed to arrive on Friday not Monday…

Even in my dreams I can not belive me actually posessing that machine. Let it be friday! Please.
 
This is killing me. Mine is due to arrive 16th August (UK). The killer is that 'on or before' bit. You know that there is always a small chance it might arrive early.

I've booked the week off work starting the 16th to play with my new toy.

Ive ordered G5 2.5ghz. x2 250gb drives. 2gb ram. 9800XT card. x2 23" Cinema displays.

Cmon Apple !!!
 
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