iMac G5 Now Shipping

[SilentPanda]

What hack? The iMac G5 has ds native, but through VGA, what else is there?

It only does mirroring native (I think)... with the split screen hack (that is currently for iBooks and such) you can have two actual screens...

 

[cal6n]

macridah,

I ordered my BTO 20" at 6 AM on the morning they were announced, and have not received my e-mail either, but I do check it every 5 minutes . . .

I think that a lot of orders were placed by people who stayed up late in order to be first in line AND because the show was in Paris customers in the UK and Europe had a 5 - 8 hour head start on the business day.

I'm just afraid that Apple will fill orders for the standard models for a brief time (just to make sure production is going OK) before throwing the BTOs into the line.

Where are the imacs being built? The european orders will probably come from the Irish plant.

 

[jxiao79]

I placed an order on sept. 1, the day after the announcement. But I still didn't receive any email yet, and the status for my imac is still open est date is 9/30.

 

[zelmo]

neato, now I have to decide if I want to order one of these or a powermac for minor prepress work (light indesign layouts) at our office. Any takers on a suggestion?

Heck, any G5 will be sufficient. We use G4's (an iMac and 2 eMac's for preflight, a dozen or so 1.2GHz PM's in Graphics and Scanning). They are more than adequate for prepress work, unless you plan on doing some real heavy Photoshop work, or are getting into video.

 

[Masteric]

Re: Imac G5 Shipping

Not available at the Apple store by me in Southern California. They said they are taking orders, but that is about it.

 

[nagromme]

If I were you i'd go with the powermac. iMacs are cool and all, but just not well suited for graphics intensive work.

An iMac is a LOT of power, and plenty... far more than people were doing the same tasks on two years ago and calling it high end.

The PowerMac is even more speed, no doubt.

It comes down to cost, then... what's the extra speed worth to you? If it was me, I'd prefer the PowerMac... but when it came down to what else I could do with the money, I'd cave and go for the 20" iMac.

 

[jbembe]

I'm going to buy one of these for my parents, who are currently using a Window 98 machine - riddled with viruses. A Mac now seems like the only safe way to let your retired non-tech-literate parents surf the Web!

Give them an iSight and your iChat address and they'll really love you!!!

 

[Jovian9]

Vinyl Records = 562 lbs.
– Compact Disks = 87 lbs.
– Cassettes = 28 lbs.
– 40GB iPod = 6.2 ounces

outerspaceapple,

love the signature! Your sig should be a marketing campaign for all the large-collection-music-lovers who hesitate to get an iPod

 

[flatpainter]

iMac shortage due to bulk orders.

[Press Release]

Apple today announced the newest, most exciting direction for it's new state of the art, iMac G5.

In a new endeavor, Maine's Governor has announce a new initiative called, "Little Huey". Elementary schools across the state will be installing hundreds of iMac G5's in supercomputing clusters to enable the little tots to generate live fractal computations for the purpose of moving finger paints from the real world to the digital realm. Using touch screen technology and dozens of tiny, eager contributors, the children will remove the mess and cleanup onus from teachers and save the expense of purchasing finger paint several times a year.

"This idea would not be possible without the incredible support of Apple Computer", said the governor. "My only regret is depriving all those eager Mac users their long awaited computers."

Apple declined to comment on the potential loss of shipping units to those ordering early, but did indicate that supply would gradually meet the high anticipated demand.

[End Press Release, Copyright Apple Computer, 2004]

 

[FriarTuck]

No iMac G5's on display in Oakbrook (IL) as of Saturday, 9/11.

 

[mlarkin]

New iMac in Your Local Apple Store?

Does anyone know if their local Apple Store has even a display model in yet of the new iMac.

I need to ring them. It is unclear whether the US-ordered models come with a built-in power adapter that ranges from 100-240 volts. This is crucial to me, I will purchase it in the US, but perhaps use it in Europe, too.

The specifications listed by Apple on their website leave room for doubt, and I have contacted MacZone, MacConnection and MacMall and have received three different answers ('yes', I 'dont know' and 'no' (i.e. only 100-120 for US models).

Thanks, and to you early adopters, I'm green with envy!

 

[ALoLA]

I called the Apple Store at the Grove here in L.A. over the weekend. They said they would get their display unit when they received their first shipment. Hopefully that'll be by this coming weekend, since the Grove is one of the flagship stores. If it's in, you know where I'll be this weekend.

 

[SilentPanda]

[Press Release]

Apple today announced the newest, most exciting direction for it's new state of the art, iMac G5.

In a new endeavor, Maine's Governor has announce a new initiative called, "Little Huey". Elementary schools across the state will be installing hundreds of iMac G5's in supercomputing clusters to enable the little tots to generate live fractal computations for the purpose of moving finger paints from the real world to the digital realm. Using touch screen technology and dozens of tiny, eager contributors, the children will remove the mess and cleanup onus from teachers and save the expense of purchasing finger paint several times a year.

"This idea would not be possible without the incredible support of Apple Computer", said the governor. "My only regret is depriving all those eager Mac users their long awaited computers."

Apple declined to comment on the potential loss of shipping units to those ordering early, but did indicate that supply would gradually meet the high anticipated demand.

[End Press Release, Copyright Apple Computer, 2004]

I can't tell if you're joking or not... finger painting?

I'm thinking you're joking but only because I can't find this on Apples site and a google search of "main apple little huey" brings up nothing (well one article from 2000).

 

[MacSA]

Somewhat the same for me. The new iMac is for my mother for email and basic web-surfing.

I had to hold myself back from tearing into one of my relatives who had the inane notion that a 500 dollar Dell was the smart purchase. They thought I was being a smart-ass when I told I'd be happy to if they made the weekly trip across country to clean her machine of viruses and spyware.

LOL I have to do that with a relatives PC, its slow as hell, god knows what they've done to it. Ive downloaded spyware checkers, antivirus checkers - and found lots. I think a Mac really is a better option for a first time computer user.

 

[just a thought]

If I were you i'd go with the powermac. iMacs are cool and all, but just not well suited for graphics intensive work. Thats just my take on it though, i'm sure most people would be more than happy to have an iMac to do minor prepress work with, but for a business i'd suggest goin with the powermac. Also, you can upgrade a powermac with a better gfx card, whilest you can't do that with an iMac (not suggested anyways).

Totally the wrong advice. I run a publishing company and for all of our light-prepress type workstations we've always used iMacs. They're great machines for this kinda work--and the G5 is going to be just killer for it (we ordered one the day they were announced).

 

[QCassidy352]

wow, great news. Well done, apple.

I also agree about a mac being by far the best choice for tech-illiterate parents. But why not go emac for someone who just needs to do web and e mail? My mother does more than that, and a 1 Ghz emac still works great for her.

 

[andyblac]

just orderd my iMac G5 1.8Ghz 20" with BT + wireless keyboard +mouse from apple store, 1GB of RAM from else where just got a date of 11 Oct. as Jack Bower would say, "This is going to be the longest" month "of my life". roll on october.

 

[Tuttle]

wow, great news. Well done, apple.

I also agree about a mac being by far the best choice for tech-illiterate parents. But why not go emac for someone who just needs to do web and e mail? My mother does more than that, and a 1 Ghz emac still works great for her.

Actually I was going to order an emac for my mother for the very reasons you stated. But the the extra cash for the new iMac was for me, it just felt cooler buying one than the emac.

But seriously, I had her briefly on a 300mhz G3 machine running Panther and I was blown away by how usable it was. It would clearly chug compared to my dual G5 on any computationally expensive tasks, but for all the basic email/webbrowsing actives it was not noticeably slower than my machine.

 

[kgarner]

It only does mirroring native (I think)... with the split screen hack (that is currently for iBooks and such) you can have two actual screens...

You are correct. It is mirroring only. Curious to see if the hack will work, but I probably won't use it on mine. At least not initially.

 

[2A Batterie]

Hopefully this will be more than just a select few. I feel that Apple has done some serious damage to its reputation, regardless of whose to blame for delays, by constantly pushing back ship dates on other products such as the 2.5's and 30" dispalys w/graphics card. Has apple learned a lesson? Maybe they estimated ship dates much later than what they planned on shipping so to protect themselves in the event that unforeseen problems (ie IBM) delay shipping times

 

[slipper]

i assume Apple only has a small quantity of iMacs and are shipping 'early' just to satisfy stock and shareholders after there mistake for withdrawing the iMacs for school season. according to the apple site, there is still a 3-4 week delay in shipment.

 

[Windowlicker]

Nice to see they actually did wait for a while so that people could actually get those things on their hands before christmas. it would totally have sucked if they first delayed the announcement and then still had a month or two delay for shipping.

 

[JtheLemur]

wow, great news. Well done, apple.

No, really, don't get your hopes up.

Don't they always say this ("Product XYZ is now shipping") X amount of time after the announcement? They probably shipped like, 10. hehe.

 

[rdowns]

Does anyone know if their local Apple Store has even a display model in yet of the new iMac.

I need to ring them. It is unclear whether the US-ordered models come with a built-in power adapter that ranges from 100-240 volts. This is crucial to me, I will purchase it in the US, but perhaps use it in Europe, too.

The specifications listed by Apple on their website leave room for doubt, and I have contacted MacZone, MacConnection and MacMall and have received three different answers ('yes', I 'dont know' and 'no' (i.e. only 100-120 for US models).

Thanks, and to you early adopters, I'm green with envy!

Full specs including electriacal are here

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html


Electrical and environmental requirements
Meets ENERGY STAR requirements
Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 100-240V AC, depending on country of use
Frequency: 47Hz to 63Hz, single phase
Maximum continuous power: 180W

 

[rdowns]

I ordered 8/31 at 3:17am PT. Just called Apple, guy just read me the same crap off of their online order tracking (on or before 9/29) and could not give any more info. What a waste of 10 minutes.