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Dual 2.5GHz PowerMacs Shipping
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DWKlink said:
Well i know in Australia at least most people will probably order through resellers because apple Australia is notoriously bad, both in customer service and just in general
im signing off for an early night, massive weekend planned, i expect pictures and reviews from the lucky people tomorow morning
cal6n said:Jeez! They took your money!!
Well - foolishly (now I realise) I offered to pay up mid July, as I was expecting it within a couple of weeks anyway (hey I had the money - if I didn't get rid of it, I might have 'needed it' ), but now that the £2600 hasn't been there for a couple of weeks (3) I am getting a bit pissed :/
I' m in sort of the same situation. I ordered via techdata, straigt from a distributer [because we sell apple ourselves from time to time] we used to order our apple equipement via ingram micro. but they stopped distributing apple. I can now see why. they were tired of the phonecalls. now because our company had to search a new appledistributer [and techdata was the only one] we had to make a new deal. and so it turned out that the first 3 bill with techdata had to be paid in front before you could pay on delivery. [guess they have had problems with people not paying or going bankrupt]
so it turned out to be me to pay a wole 5500 euros in front for a 23" display, a 2.5 powermac and a 6800 nvidia card. I have payed it since july 1th and the display is the only thing I have received.
at this moment my status is 25th of august. but that can change in both ways.
I think Apple should not make any annoucements anymore before they can ship in one or 2 weeks! yes, WEEKS. by this time, the benchmarks are allready outdated! the dual xeon 3.6 has been launched while apple still has to deliver the 2.5's [except for some rare exceptions]
so it turned out to be me to pay a wole 5500 euros in front for a 23" display, a 2.5 powermac and a 6800 nvidia card. I have payed it since july 1th and the display is the only thing I have received.
at this moment my status is 25th of august. but that can change in both ways.
I think Apple should not make any annoucements anymore before they can ship in one or 2 weeks! yes, WEEKS. by this time, the benchmarks are allready outdated! the dual xeon 3.6 has been launched while apple still has to deliver the 2.5's [except for some rare exceptions]
G5support.com said:
No. I set it on Highest and re-benchmarked it:
Results 288.77
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.4 (7L32)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model PowerMac7,3
Processor PowerPC G5x2 @ 2.50 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 2.50 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Video Card ATY,RV360
Drive Type Maxtor 6Y250M0
CPU Test 242.28
GCD Loop 147.47 5.76 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 398.62 1.44 Gflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 172.24 5.00 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 276.68 4.30 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 518.71 20.76 Mops/sec
Thread Test 260.71
Computation 190.73 2.57 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 411.84 5.17 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 354.97
System 412.25
Allocate 913.65 595.98 Kalloc/sec
Fill 386.50 3076.51 MB/sec
Copy 278.15 1390.73 MB/sec
Stream 311.67
Copy 263.77 1928.19 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 272.85 2013.62 MB/sec [G5]
Add 361.94 2316.39 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 382.38 2336.33 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 319.76
Line 309.27 7.87 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 292.03 20.54 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 304.93 7.03 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 282.75 3.07 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 462.33 7.54 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 206.04
Spinning Squares 206.04 144.19 frames/sec
User Interface Test 397.79
Elements 397.79 127.95 refresh/sec
Disk Test 146.42
Sequential 157.11
Uncached Write 166.16 69.26 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 143.00 58.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 183.40 29.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 142.94 57.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 137.08
Uncached Write 162.45 2.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 192.41 43.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 102.41 0.68 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 124.05 25.53 MB/sec [256K blocks]
No G5's, No Powerbooks in UK
If you live in the UK, no one can get ahold of any G5's or Powerbooks. Microanvika has no stock, nor does any other reseller - what is going on?
If you live in the UK, no one can get ahold of any G5's or Powerbooks. Microanvika has no stock, nor does any other reseller - what is going on?
@Hotwire
Hi there, I informed the guy from the cinebenchscore-page about your tests from yesterday. So now your scores are in the list.
http://www.3dfluff.com/mash/cbdual.php
Hope you don't mind.
odo
Hi there, I informed the guy from the cinebenchscore-page about your tests from yesterday. So now your scores are in the list.
http://www.3dfluff.com/mash/cbdual.php
Hope you don't mind.
odo
It's almost here...
7:20 am
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
ALPHARETTA GA
Every time I hear a loud engine outside, I go running to the window. A fire truck has driven by 3 times. Enough already! If someone sets this place on fire and I have to evacuate, I will hunt them down.
7:20 am
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
ALPHARETTA GA
Every time I hear a loud engine outside, I go running to the window. A fire truck has driven by 3 times. Enough already!
If someone sets this place on fire and I have to evacuate, I will hunt them down.
jdhuskey said:It's almost here...
7:20 am
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
ALPHARETTA GA
Every time I hear a loud engine outside, I go running to the window. A fire truck has driven by 3 times. Enough already!
I was the same way--just a couple more hours (mine arrive around noon).
I have a weird scene in my head of JDhusky in a starwars X-wing going for the wormhole to destroy the deathstar. "I'm almost there!" loosen up! "I'm almost there" use the force JDhusky, ....
btw, dual xeons 3.6 are just out and are a 12.5% up in speed in comparison to the 3.2 and they are WAY expensive so the dual G5 can hold it's position for a bit longer than I expected. also the G5 is more than 12.5% faster in many apps so for me it's still king.
btw, dual xeons 3.6 are just out and are a 12.5% up in speed in comparison to the 3.2 and they are WAY expensive so the dual G5 can hold it's position for a bit longer than I expected. also the G5 is more than 12.5% faster in many apps so for me it's still king.
The camera is around my neck. I already have a picture of the UPS truck this morning, which wasn't bringing my G5.
donmcnamee1 said:
MacMerchant has Powerbooks I believe.
There is a shortage of 1.8's, 2.0's have a 2 week wait lime (estimated), 2.5's.. well that's hilarious!
No iMacs until September... will there be any then even?
Reasonably farsical really.
JD huskey!!!!!!!
there was a traffic accident with a fedex vehicule involved.. it's all over the news. shiny aluminal parts are all over the highway! it appears the fedex guy was drunk and tried to miss a crossing bug. he hit the bug anyway and ended up mad and ended up against a concrete wall. up so far, the load of his truck was OK. but then he feared that others would hit the back of his car and therefor, he started unpacking his load. starting with a big blackbox saying G6 or G5, [the news was not sure about that because of the box being thorn apart] he put the load on the highway to signal the accident..
man I hope thats not your fedex guy...
there was a traffic accident with a fedex vehicule involved.. it's all over the news. shiny aluminal parts are all over the highway! it appears the fedex guy was drunk and tried to miss a crossing bug. he hit the bug anyway and ended up mad and ended up against a concrete wall. up so far, the load of his truck was OK. but then he feared that others would hit the back of his car and therefor, he started unpacking his load. starting with a big blackbox saying G6 or G5, [the news was not sure about that because of the box being thorn apart] he put the load on the highway to signal the accident..
man I hope thats not your fedex guy...
Have seen a post of one
I saw a Post last week of a 9800 unit going out. I have not noticed a unit with bluetooth though.
GnOm said:
I saw a Post last week of a 9800 unit going out. I have not noticed a unit with bluetooth though.
Ge4-ce said:
That's just wrong for so many reasons!
Don't make me come over there in my X-wing. I'd have to open a can of southern Star Wars whoop as* on ya!
I left a door open so I could hear outside better, and now there's a fly in here that's driving me crazy!
jdhuskey said:That's just wrong for so many reasons!
Don't make me come over there in my X-wing. I'd have to open a can of southern Star Wars whoop as* on ya!
I left a door open so I could hear outside better, and now there's a fly in here that's driving me crazy!
You should be grateful - I had to close the window here as I had wasps flying in and buzzing me while doing some tricky editing (couldnt take eyes of screens, or hands off keyboard, which left me doing some kind of wild anchored jig!!
.. last year, I looked up from the screen to see a hornet the size of a cigar hovering right in front of my head.. I damn near backflipped off my chair and out the door!
jdhuskey said:It's almost here...
7:20 am
On FedEx vehicle for delivery
ALPHARETTA GA
Every time I hear a loud engine outside, I go running to the window. A fire truck has driven by 3 times. Enough already!
Yay.."on truck for delevery"---the garbage truck got me, no fire trucks yet.. I will watch for those :O
Mr MacNabbit said:You should be grateful - I had to close the window here as I had wasps flying in and buzzing me while doing some tricky editing (couldnt take eyes of screens, or hands off keyboard, which left me doing some kind of wild anchored jig!!
.. last year, I looked up from the screen to see a hornet the size of a cigar hovering right in front of my head.. I damn near backflipped off my chair and out the door!
I think all of us at the forum should chip in and buy you a nice aluminum window screen to go with your new G5.
IT'S HERE! I know the FedEx guy thinks I'm a freak for taking a picture of him pulling it out of the truck. Oh well, time to unpack. I just wanted to let you guys know first.
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