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iMac sept 12 release?

I've been trying to get in contact with a friend who works at the Apple Store at Meadowhall in Sheffield, UK to see if I can get any info from him relating to iMac stock levels and delivery schedules and so on... but he's not answering!

How many missed calls is socially acceptable before it becomes weird? :confused:
 
Who knows maybe apple won't be so tightly attached to the Tuesday releases now that they have a ton of products coming... The amount of products being forecasted for the end of this year hardly fits into the remaining Tuesday's unless they want to release a new product every Tuesday. Though the only product I care about is the iMac, the rest can wait till 2013 for all I care.
 
tommod said:
I've been trying to get in contact with a friend who works at the Apple Store at Meadowhall in Sheffield, UK to see if I can get any info from him relating to iMac stock levels and delivery schedules and so on... but he's not answering!

How many missed calls is socially acceptable before it becomes weird? :confused:
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Just get on there back and keep calling man.
 
iMcLovin said:
Who knows maybe apple won't be so tightly attached to the Tuesday releases now that they have a ton of products coming... The amount of products being forecasted for the end of this year hardly fits into the remaining Tuesday's unless they want to release a new product every Tuesday. Though the only product I care about is the iMac, the rest can wait till 2013 for all I care.
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Steady! It's been hard enough trying to guess the launch date when we only have 1/7th of 52 to choose from, you want to take this to 365 now?!
 
forty2j said:
Last year some guy from CNet stowed away on the boat from China. Or something. Anyway he was sounding the alarm bells and was dead on. 2010 if I recall had no such warning.

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But do they usually cancel/move orders on the old model the week before a refresh? Or is that just if they run out?
 
Just out of curiosity, given Kuo's report on Friday suggesting that the iMac 2012 was coming out at the end of October, what makes people think that it might come out today?
 
Haugiz said:
But do they usually cancel/move orders on the old model the week before a refresh? Or is that just if they run out?
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If you start seeing the online dates slip, and a new model comes out while you're waiting for shipment, I believe they cancel the order.
 
BriMercer said:
Just out of curiosity, given Kuo's report on Friday suggesting that the iMac 2012 was coming out at the end of October, what makes people think that it might come out today?
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The last report showed new iMac 21.5" in september.

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BriMercer said:
Just out of curiosity, given Kuo's report on Friday suggesting that the iMac 2012 was coming out at the end of October, what makes people think that it might come out today?
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Total disbelief in Kuo’s psychic abilities?
 
Haugiz said:
The last report showed new iMac 21.5" in september.

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This is the weakest part of his report. He should have stuck to giving 6 week timeframes for everything, rather than throwing darts at a calendar. Not a lot makes sense about how he laid out this schedule.
 
Well. Now that the 12th event is confirmed, can we expect to see "new" next to the iMac on 9/12? Or do we have to wait until 1pm PST for some form of an announcement. Assuming that the iMac is going to be released at some point next week!
 
Johnf1285 said:
Well. Now that the 12th event is confirmed, can we expect to see "new" next to the iMac on 9/12? Or do we have to wait until 1pm PST for some form of an announcement. Assuming that the iMac is going to be released at some point next week!
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If they announce any products on the 12th that will actually be for sale on the 12th, the store will be down for the duration of the event, and then the "New" tags will be up afterwards.
 
forty2j said:
If they announce any products on the 12th that will actually be for sale on the 12th, the store will be down for the duration of the event, and then the "New" tags will be up afterwards.
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Ah that sounds right, just like the recent WWDC and previous events

Can't wait to see what happens!
 
Rebel Hedgehog said:
Must be true then if a Lufthansa employee has spoken.
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In related news, an employee of the Berlin Apple Store reports that Lufthansa purchased three new Airbus A380-800s.

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forty2j said:
If they announce any products on the 12th that will actually be for sale on the 12th, the store will be down for the duration of the event, and then the "New" tags will be up afterwards.
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I have a feeling that the store will be down for quite a little longer if they really come up with iPhones _and_ iMacs. :D
 
jollino said:
I have a feeling that the store will be down for quite a little longer if they really come up with iPhones _and_ iMacs. :D
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In all likelihood it would be down overnight to set up the iPhone preorder form, even if that is the only product they release.

Generally the invitation is good at giving clues about what will be talked about. With the only clue being the "5" shadow, I'm 99 44/100ths % sure this will be iPhone only.
 
forty2j said:
Generally the invitation is good at giving clues about what will be talked about. With the only clue being the "5" shadow, I'm 99 44/100ths % sure this will be iPhone only.
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If the iMacs are not "revolutionary enough" to justify an event (ie. no retina), they may just slip in the update on the same day, like what they did with the Airport express at the WWDC. It was more or less like "they released the new MacBook Pros! with retina! oh and they also came up with a renewed Airport Express..."
 
I'm costantly monitoring iMac availability in the 20 Apple Store in the NY Area, and i get some intresting results...

The low-end 27" iMac is now out of stock in 17 out of 20 stores, yesterday the re-stocking date for almost all of them was on the 6th, now it has slipped to the 7th for every single store.

Same story for the high-end 27", till yesterday the availability date was for the 10th, now 11th for every store...

Don't know what this means though... but such a shortage MUST mean something... and i don't think it's only what we want to see this time. NY Apple Stores are among the most important worldwide.
 
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