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I Ordered My Retina iMac High End What did you get?
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Apparently Apple sacrificed some "lanes" for more external USB ports. You can't have everything.
Let me start buy saying I didn't get the 27" retina so I hope this is ok to post. I just ordered a new iMac 21.5" after buying one at Best Buy. The issue I have with the Best Buy version is the 1TB 5400 RPM HDD. This HDD just cripples the entire computer if you ask me. So I decided to go big ordered the i7, 16GB RAM and the 512 SSD. I'm paying a premium but after seeing how difficult it can be to replace the RAM and HDD I decided this was the best route. The good news is MACs last and the machine I ordered should last at least another 3 years. I do realize that I could have gotten the 27" retina for what I paid but I have no room for a 27" MAC. Can't wait to fire it up. Hope it arrives this Friday as I was taking the day off anyway. Very exciting.
My status now reads, "Preparing for shipment"
Ordered 10/23 morning, expedited delivery.
No, he can't - the RAM in the 21,5" can't be upgraded without removing the display!
Not being sarcastic at all, I really had no idea - although I was sort of anticipating something closer to 1000 MB/s.
But I'm not super happy about hearing that the rMBP and nMP have faster SSD's :-(
If you want faster, get an external LaCie SSD raid array, which will give you 1200 or so.
Maxed everything but the TB SSD and the RAM. Ordered crucial RAM instead for half the price. Now the RAM is sitting on my desk taunting me. Come on next week!
Fetched A$1500 for my four year old late 2010 i5 iMac, which could have easily lasted me another two years or so what with it's 256SSD+3TB internal HD, 16GB RAM and 1GB Radeon HD card.
This new beast will last me for another five years at least.
Fetched A$1500 for my four year old late 2010 i5 iMac, which could have easily lasted me another two years or so what with it's 256SSD+3TB internal HD, 16GB RAM and 1GB Radeon HD card.
This new beast will last me for another five years at least.
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Actually that's the problem its not that easy anymore especially the RAM. You have to literally disassemble the entire PC to get to the RAM thus voiding the warranty. The hard drive was more doable but the tape they used to hold the display in just sounds like a mess. The older one you could disassemble and Apple may not have been able to tell (not voiding the warranty) but the new ones its difficult. I'm talking about the 21.5" of course.
My status went to preparing for shipment overnight! I ordered 10/23 at 6pm with expedited delivery.My status now reads, "Preparing for shipment"
Ordered 10/23 morning, expedited delivery.
Based on other responses in this thread, it looks like it takes 1-2 days to go from preparing for shipment to shipped. Does that sound right?
I'd like to know the answer to that too.
I ordered 10/24 evening but not expedited.
Just changed to preparing for shipment.
Based on what I've read from this thread, 1-2 days is typical. I'll post when mine ships.
Mine was ordered on the 22nd and shipped the 27th. My scheduled delivery via FedEx is Thurs, the 30th. There has not been a status update for 24 hours (the last location was Shanghai).
I live in Memphis where the hub is located; something tells me that this will be here a day early.
My original delivery was slated Nov 2-4th.
I live in Memphis where the hub is located; something tells me that this will be here a day early.
My original delivery was slated Nov 2-4th.
That's my understanding as well. My original scheduled delivery is 11/4-6 (expedited) but I hope it comes in later this week!
I thought the Aussies got ripped on Apple pricing? That config is $3579 CDN and thats before taxes and shipping.
My config (which I still havent pulled the trigger on) is $3896.24 w/taxes and shipping (non-expedited)
i7/8GB/256GB SSD/295X/AppleCare
How did you manage that for $3,383?
AU online store is quoting me $3,959 for that machine without a mouse or keyboard.
My order shipped Sunday night from China and I just got Fedex notification that it has been delivered!! Can't wait to get home this evening.
I got my iMac Retina today. I ordered the following configuration:
My first impressions are that the display is amazing. I don't think I can really describe it or that any pictures can do it justice..
I just finished restoring my Time Machine backup, so a lot of processes are running and the CPU is quite busy. Aperture is generating previews for about 9,000 images as we speak. The only stutter I see is when invoking Mission Control. Apart from that everything seems to be very fast.
Scrolling in Safari is good and I think that Apple did a great job with this iMac. What impresses me is the quality of the display. Not only is it really sharp, but it looks amazing...Color uniformity is really good. I don't think I want to ever use another display...
- 3,5Ghz CPU
- 16GB RAM
- 512GB SSD
- Standard graphics card
My first impressions are that the display is amazing. I don't think I can really describe it or that any pictures can do it justice..
I just finished restoring my Time Machine backup, so a lot of processes are running and the CPU is quite busy. Aperture is generating previews for about 9,000 images as we speak. The only stutter I see is when invoking Mission Control. Apart from that everything seems to be very fast.
Scrolling in Safari is good and I think that Apple did a great job with this iMac. What impresses me is the quality of the display. Not only is it really sharp, but it looks amazing...Color uniformity is really good. I don't think I want to ever use another display...
Status update for anyone interested. USA.
Ordered 10/23 around 7pm EST with available to ship 7-10 business days.
Preparing to ship 9:30pm on 10/27
Shipped 12:50pm 10/28
Fedex estimated delivery scheduled for 10/31 by 10:30am.
This was paying for expedited shipping which quite frankly does not appear to speed anything up at all. Ship Tues, arrive Fri? I have seem much faster "non expedited" deliveries. Yes, I'm impatient.
Ordered 10/23 around 7pm EST with available to ship 7-10 business days.
Preparing to ship 9:30pm on 10/27
Shipped 12:50pm 10/28
Fedex estimated delivery scheduled for 10/31 by 10:30am.
This was paying for expedited shipping which quite frankly does not appear to speed anything up at all. Ship Tues, arrive Fri? I have seem much faster "non expedited" deliveries. Yes, I'm impatient.
Well, aren't you lucky? I just ordered mine today, and the estimated delivery date is on November 11-14!
And I paid for faster shipping!