G5 PowerMacs Shipping?

[MacRumors]

AppleInsider claims that "several of Apple's larger corporate and government customers" have already started receiving shipments of the PowerMac G5 in both single and dual configurations "a couple of weeks ago".

The Mac OS X 10.2.7 shipping with these machines is said to be a pre-release version -- as Apple seeded developers with a version of 10.2.7 just this past Tuesday.

While it seems unlikely that PowerMac G5s would make their way into the wild without photos and benchmarks being instantly posted to the internet, MacBidouille posted (what appears to be) an independent updates with similar claims:

According to one of our sources, some large customers of Apple already got their Dual 2GHz G5 about three weeks ago.

 

[Chealion]

I guess that disproves most ideas about the G5s being delayed...

 

[Mr. Anderson]

What I really like about the Mac Bidouille article

- Next generation of G5 is around the corner and could appear in December. This won't only mean a frequency jump but also improvement to the motherboard (notably on the PCI-X)

Just one more reason to wait for Rev. B aside from getting Panther pre-installed....

D

 

[arn]

it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

 

[voyagerd]

I want my G5 to ship now! It's only a lowly 1.8...

 

[iGav]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
What I really like about the Mac Bidouille article



Just one more reason to wait for Rev. B aside from getting Panther pre-installed....

D

I think this is the way it's going to be from now on, if Apple can update every 3 months, then it'll equal out the sales pattern over the course of a year, rather than products falling off at every 6 month interval or whenever there is a Mac Expo...

It's going to be so strange getting regular updates... but I thought Jobs seemed more bullish than usual when he was presenting the G5...

 

[mactastic]

Originally posted by iGAV
I think this is the way it's going to be from now on, if Apple can update every 3 months, then it'll equal out the sales pattern over the course of a year, rather than products falling off at every 6 month interval or whenever there is a Mac Expo...

It's going to be so strange getting regular updates... but I thought Jobs seemed more bullish than usual when he was presenting the G5...

I particularly liked the part where he publicly stated that we will be seeing 3Ghz chips within a year! Holy floating point operations Batman!

 

[trog]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson


Just one more reason to wait for Rev. B aside from getting Panther pre-installed....

Is there any reason to think that the Panther upgrade will be free for those that buy Powermacs now?

I thought I'd heard that a couple months ago?

 

[Flowbee]

OK, so who are "Apple's larger corporate and government customers?"

 

[trog]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

ABSOLUTELY. I've got my digital camera warmed up and ready to go the second mine shows up. I think most consumers are pretty close to as excited as I am about it, so it is definitely a little odd.

 

[jaedreth]

3GHz in a year, die shrink

If updates do start coming this fast, I'm gonna have to save my money up quick, else I won't be able to afford a new comp til G6!

Um, wait, that's not a *bad* thing, is it?

Jaedreth

(Adam West: "To the batpole, Robin...")

 

[agreenster]

Originally posted by Flowbee
OK, so who are "Apple's larger corporate and government customers?"

Pixar has been testing Renderman on a G5 for a long time, so I wonder if they already have a received shipment....

 

[Abstract]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

And that's why I don't believe it.

 

[daveL]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

Yes, but this strikes me as an "early access" program, since they are still running pre-release 10.2.7. If this is the case, it *would* be covered by NDA. Companies that provide early access to products not shipping yet don't want any remaining warts made public, rather they want to learn about them and get them fixed.

 

[Postal]

Just a quick bit:

Last night (Wednesday), http://www.pixarm.com/g5 had a Flash-based slideshow of photos of a G5 in person. If you go to that URL now, you're redirected to the main pixarm.com page. If you try a genuinely non-existent directory on pixarm.com, you get a 404 error - so you have your "proof" that they have a G5.

For those who haven't clicked the link: the PixArm is a product from Marathon Computer that lets you put an Apple Cinema/Studio Display on a swivelling arm mounted to a desk. So in effect, we know that Marathon has at least one G5 on their hands.

 

[Vlade]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

Remember, government agencies aren't like mac freaks, they don't post pictures as soon as they receive their products

 

[mxpiazza]

all i'm saying, is that i recenty converted about 4 of my friends to mac's (they all got the powerbook 12", even though i told them to wait... oh well) and i got to set all of them up. now i'm the odd man out, sitting here, waiting for my g5. if i read one more story about how these things are coming and mine dosen't, i'm going to flip! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

 

[crees!]

Originally posted by Postal
Just a quick bit:

Last night (Wednesday), http://www.pixarm.com/g5 had a Flash-based slideshow of photos of a G5 in person. If you go to that URL now, you're redirected to the main pixarm.com page. If you try a genuinely non-existent directory on pixarm.com, you get a 404 error - so you have your "proof" that they have a G5.

For those who haven't clicked the link: the PixArm is a product from Marathon Computer that lets you put an Apple Cinema/Studio Display on a swivelling arm mounted to a desk. So in effect, we know that Marathon has at least one G5 on their hands.

Actually that link is still up and working. You just need a '/' at the end. Try http://www.pixarm.com/g5/

 

[JBracy]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

Originally posted by Vlade
Remember, government agencies aren't like mac freaks, they don't post pictures as soon as they receive their products

Also don't forget that not only are Government Agencies bound by NDA from Apple, but by Security Clearances. You just try getting a digital camera into the CIA, FBI, NRO etc... (All of which are large Mac users BTW). Is it really worth going to jail - or worse - just to post a few pics on Mac Rumors?

 

[Bob Knob]

Originally posted by arn
it just makes little sense that no one would post pics/benches.

it's not like it's under NDA. It's a publically announced product.

arn

As some of the others have said, this is not necessarily true. I am under a few NDAs for things that have been in the public for years, but my work and knowledge of the projects are still covered. This also covers what I had and when I had it.

I can say that at least two of the developers that I work with (I am not under NDA, but they might be) had a G5 in house one week after the WWDC

 

[Mr.Hey]

A MacAddict forum user reports on a G5 that he has access too...pics and additional comments soon to come.

mentholiptus

First off, pictures will come at the end of the work day, I'm on lunch break now.

1) It's about as heavy as the current towers.

2) FREAKING QUIET! And that's with your ear up to the front grill

3) Although it looks like a mammoth, it's only about 2 inches taller than the G3-G4 towers (I used a tape measure) 8" wide, 19" long, and about 20 and a half tall.

4) there is an internal speaker, abd it's mounted next to the fan in the front of the video card cooling chamber.

5) It looks cool running with the door off

6) I selected 10 apps from the apps folder (runing 10.2.7) and hit command+o to open them all, and it took around 5-10 seconds for them all to launch.

7) iTunes ran at 63fps on a 20" CD LCD with the radeon 9600

8) (this will soon be a link to pictures) Macaddict

 

[wms121]

get your POWER12 orders in now!!!

nice little IBM news blip...

http://www.ibm.com/news/us/2003/08/051.html


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[inkswamp]

Originally posted by Flowbee
OK, so who are "Apple's larger corporate and government customers?"

Apple Stores.

 

[Mudbug]

Originally posted by crees!
Actually that link is still up and working. You just need a '/' at the end. Try http://www.pixarm.com/g5/

well, actually that link only kinda works too...

if you click the above link it takes you to what appears to be a blank white screen, but if you select the url, delete the /g5/ from it, and hit return, you can see the flash document very briefly on the screen showing the ports of a g5. Or at least that's how it's working for me.

 

[crees!]

Originally posted by Mudbug
well, actually that link only kinda works too...

if you click the above link it takes you to what appears to be a blank white screen, but if you select the url, delete the /g5/ from it, and hit return, you can see the flash document very briefly on the screen showing the ports of a g5. Or at least that's how it's working for me.

I was able to view all 4 screen shots with no problem at all. The title of the page is "G5 Image Gallery". Though these pictures aren't anything we haven't seen.. they are presented nicely.