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iMac G5 Now Shipping

just a thought said:
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).
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I was leaning toward that idea. We have a person at work that does mainly 1-2 color jobs in indesign and QuarkXpress. All of the heavy duty PS and AI work is on my machine, which is a G4 PM now, and will probably be a G5 soon :D

Considering the person will be graduating from os9 on a 400 G3, the imac should be all the power they need for quite a while, a PM will be overkill. Thanks to everyone for the input.
 
No way is Apple shipping "just 10 units". They announced during the last quarterly results that the new iMacs would initially be shipped to the US by air freight, reducing their gross margin.

The most effective (cheapest) way to do this would be a chartered freighter, probably a MD-11, and there will be a lot of iMacs on that plane. While some may be BTOs I would not be surprised to see the plane heavily loaded with stock models for the Apple Stores, early apple.com orders and early orders from resellers. Lets face it, a plane load will not go far!

I would also bet that the line is pretty well at full speed now. There would have been a need to ramp it up slowly to ensure all stages of the line worked well and for staff training purposes, but that stage is probably over with. I'm looking for my e-mail in the next few days.
 
I'm asking those people who've been waiting almost three months for a Dual 2.5: What are your thoughts on this? I'm sure you guys aren't too surprised because it was already known that Apple had stockpiles of 1.6 and 1.8 G5s. Then again, it's only been, what, two weeks since the iMac G5's announcement and they're shipping a completely new design so quickly! Must be a record!
 
DITTO FOR ME

20 inch stock shipped today as well. I think only stock are shipping right now.
 
Wish I'd ordered am iMac

OK so the new iMacs are shipping,good news for some, I've had my Dual 2.5 G5 on order since June and I've just got an email to say shipment has been put back again until October (Yes OCTOBER) 15
 
Mine hasn't shipped yet. I ordered it about 6:50AM PDT when I woke up in San Antonio that morning. I did a BTO model though with more RAM, Hard Drive, etc.

We'll see when it ships. Right now says on/before 9/29.

I just hope Virtual PC ships sometime around the same time :)
 
Apparently, not yet

narco said:
I wonder if they're already displaying them at the Apple stores. The design is growing on me, but I know I'll like it even more once I see it in person.

.narco
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I just called the Apple Store Soho here in NYC, and was told "We don't know..." so I guess I'll just keep bothering them until I get a yes! :confused:
 
I don't mind if I don't get my iMac within a week for two. But this gives me more confidence in the shipping date I do have, at the end of the month. I was worried that the original estimated shipping dates were vapordates. But now I expect to see that wonderful box coming in the door early next month.
 
weezer160 said:
I'm asking those people who've been waiting almost three months for a Dual 2.5: What are your thoughts on this? I'm sure you guys aren't too surprised because it was already known that Apple had stockpiles of 1.6 and 1.8 G5s. Then again, it's only been, what, two weeks since the iMac G5's announcement and they're shipping a completely new design so quickly! Must be a record!
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I'm not a person waiting on a 2.5GHz but I want to put in my $0.02 on this.

The 2.5 is a hard chip for IBM to make, low yield rates, things like that. However the 1.6 and the 1.8 are fairly easy for them to make - in fact they most often times are the 2.5s or 2.0s that don't make it. This is very common in the microelectronics world.

A chip is fabbed, then tested. Based on the testing they are assigned a clock speed. That's why as time progresses clock speeds can go up because either A) they've gotten better yield rates and can 'bump' up the speed or B) They go to a smaller process (130nm vs 90nm for example)
 
fatfish said:
Yep and what's worse is I've had my new 30" display sat here doing nothing but wait for it's new partner for nearly 4 weeks

£ 2.5K I could still have in the bank
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You should call and get them to extend your warranty date on it. I don't think the 1 month of it just sitting there should count against your 1 year.

As for iMac G5s shipping, I'll be happy if mine ships by the end of the month. I'm currently estimated a ship date of October 12, so the end of the month would be ahead of schedule for me.
 
anything over 450mhz works for pre-press

outerspaceapple said:
If I were you i'd go with the powermac. iMacs are cool and all, but just not well suited for graphics intensive work.
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At my last job, in 2002, I did all my work on a 300mhz B&W. I did some 18x20 posters on it. So 1.6ghz imac with serial-ata will be MORE than adequate for indesign.

Right now, I work on a dual 867 MDD and it is _completely_ fast enough. Basically real time for almost everything I do. (18x24 posters at 300dpi). the only thing I really wait for is lens blur in photoshop, and maybe saving/printing. Never have to wait for InDesign beyond PDF Exporting/printing, and that's maybe 15 seconds max.

Point is, these iMacs are ahead of the prepress curve. the 17" iMac would be awesome for what you're doing.
 
No email yet

Ordered my BTO 20" right after the site came up 8/31.

On or before Sept. 29. Weird, though, order came through with double memory I wanted -- not my fault, I was careful on the order. The Apple rep. cancelled it, put in corrected order, date slipped to on or before Sept. 30.

Hope to get the email soon (I check every 4 minutes...anyone do it every 3?).
 
Ordered mine 9/7 and it remains on or before 10/6/04. I ordered the 20" with Airport Extreme. If the ship date changes I'll let you know. I also am curious about the performance. I know it won't be like my dual 2 G5 but will it outperform my Dual 1 G4s???
 
Macmaniac said:
Well if I see a post saying someone got one by Sept 15 then I will be impressed. I wonder if Apple can make it;)
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Well, apparently they can; my mom ordered a 17" 1.6 ghz stock on the 31st. I saw the news on the home page and checked the shipping and low and behold, right on apple it tells me it shipped. I got slightly pissed off when I saw on apple that the projected ship date was 9/30. Listed under that was a tracking number which linked me to fedex's site. I checked there and they say that it will get here on Wednesday the 15th! Now we'll see if they'll follow through... :D
 
Apple will email shipping notices during the night (US time) a lot of times so it's either stay up late or hope Santa has been good to me.

douglasio, I would LOVE IT is your mom was the first to get one in the US! I'm even willing to wait a day in order for that to happen. Think of how much fun you will have telling all your friends that your mom has a new G5 iMac. I'd call every one of them as soon as it arrives - or at least the ones that know what a G5 imac is. :D
 
outerspaceapple said:
Wow, apple really nailed their projected shipping times for this one, almost no delay at all!
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Is this a joke? The new iMac really *should* have been announced in June and shipped in July. Am I missing something here?

No display models in the Cambridge, MA, store as of Monday 13 Sept.
 
dudehey said:
Ordered non-modified 20 inch on 9/9 - shipped today(9/13) - w00t
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Dammit you suck! Ordered as K-12 education institution on 9/3, stock 20", OOB date still 10/4. Hmph! :D
 
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