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iMac G5 Now Shipping

shanghaied!

Even though they say mine shipped out yesterday morning, Fed Ex site says it's still stuck in Shanghai. What gives? I' rather be anchored down in Anchorage. But seriously, why are some coming from China and others report theirs coming from Pennsylvania and Cupertino? Did Apple smuggle a bunch of illegals into rural Pennsylvania to build computers cheap?
At least this give me a little time to order the ram that I thought I had several weeks to do. Any recommendations on a brand??
 
RAM questions...

Voiteur said:
At least this give me a little time to order the ram that I thought I had several weeks to do. Any recommendations on a brand??
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Talking about RAM... does anyone know if there are some requirements about the thickness of the RAM modules? I am asking this because most of the recent RAM bricks from Crucial/Corsair/... have heat-spreaders that make the modules themselves a bit thicker than usual. Not a problem when they are standing right, but the iMac has those modules in diagonal, according to the pictures!!
 
It's here!

FedEx man just dropped it off! 9:40 central time, here in Minneapolis. I must go play! Maybe find time to post a pic later.
:) :) :) :) :) :)
 
Voiteur said:
At least this give me a little time to order the ram that I thought I had several weeks to do. Any recommendations on a brand??
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My informal perusal of the boards pointed to Crucial - many claim that Apple uses Crucial/Micron memory, and their prices are reasonable. I have used them before, without any problems.

But I decided to go with www.transintl.com . I have used them before as well, and have actually been to their store in Orange Co where they have been very helpful. Their price for 1GB is $199, vs $253 at Crucial.

PS - remember that matching your two memory sticks will enable 128-bit dual channel memory. It will boost performance (although we won't know how much until someone does some tests on a shipped unit).
 
I bought 2 sticks of 512 from 18004memory.com for $71.50 each. (Was $72 at memorytogo.com but shipping is more expensive.)

What is interesting to note, the Powermac G5 3200 memory is less expensive than the iMac G5 3200 memory when you do a search on ramseeker.com. Buy the PM memory. They are exactly the same thing.
 
Here we go: 17" 1.8 512mb
 

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My informal perusal of the boards pointed to Crucial - many claim that Apple uses Crucial/Micron memory, and their prices are reasonable. I have used them before, without any problems.

But I decided to go with www.transintl.com . I have used them before as well, and have actually been to their store in Orange Co where they have been very helpful. Their price for 1GB is $199, vs $253 at Crucial.

PS - remember that matching your two memory sticks will enable 128-bit dual channel memory. It will boost performance (although we won't know how much until someone does some tests on a shipped unit).
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Apple didn't use crucial or micron in my G5, it was line infineron or some damn thing.

Also, I don't think the G5 has a switch to run in single channel mode, so you'd better make sure you match up your chips :).

I just put a stack of four 512mb corsair chips in there, cost me $310 from http://www.newegg.com and everything is working fine (and I did the extended hardware test after installing, which passed with flying colors).

And by the way, just because Apple uses it DOES NOT mean it's good. Apple had Maxtor hard drives in many of its G5s and quantum hard drives in the first G3s (including the '98 iMac)--both of which are extremely poor quality.

Building PCs has at least taught me 1 thing: Package deals never provide the best quality, it's always moderate to good quality, and sometimes they shoot the moon and throw in some crap hard drives (I know gateway, compaq, and Apple have done it, I don't know for sure if Dell has though).
 
europe

any words on the delivery in europe?
i live in norway and it still says 29/9.
 
Screen is nice and sharp. Better then my old G4 iMac. I like the size. A 20" would have been a little to big for me.

More pictures soon!
 
Well mark me as 'shipping sorta'

I checked the 'ship everything at once' button so I wouldn't have pieces on my desk mocking me waiting for them to arrive.

Today the Applecare and the DVD Blanks shipped. the two games I ordered now show 9/20 dates, yet the iMac itself still says 9/29.

Ordered at 7:45 PDT 8/31. BTO 20" with 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, BT KB/Mouse, Airport Express, and final cut express installed
 
Man i'm just glad it works! When I got my first iMac way back in 1998 it was DOA! Then number 2 in 2000 was DOA as well!

So far so good!
 

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Also, I don't think the G5 has a switch to run in single channel mode, so you'd better make sure you match up your chips.
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G5 iMac (this is an iMac thread) runs in single channel mode if there is one stick or if the pair is mismatched, and dual channel if the pair is matched.

Again, we don't yet know how much the performance boost is, but we do know that there will be some kind of performance boost with a matched pair.
 
KeareB said:
My informal perusal of the boards pointed to Crucial - many claim that Apple uses Crucial/Micron memory, and their prices are reasonable. I have used them before, without any problems.
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I would recommend crucial. I've used them since 1999 or so for memory upgrades and have never had a stick go bad or have a problem.

I've used them on IBM Thinkpads, Apple Powerbook, Apple iMac, clone motherboards, etc.
 
KeareB said:
G5 iMac (this is an iMac thread) runs in single channel mode if there is one stick or if the pair is mismatched, and dual channel if the pair is matched.

Again, we don't yet know how much the performance boost is, but we do know that there will be some kind of performance boost with a matched pair.
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How matched is matched? Does it have to be from same manufacturer, or is a PC3200 DDR 512 MB stick from Crucial considered matched to the OEM one that will come with my iMac?
 
SilentPanda said:
I'm just waiting to make sure the dual screen hack will work with it and then I'll be placing my order... so somebody get one and try it out!!!! :)
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there is a dual screen hack? does it work for the eMac 700?
 
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