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New Apple Device In Route To US?

Weight is about right

The ImportGenius article reported that the "504 cartons" weighed a total of 7,140 kg. If you assume that there are 12-24 boxes per carton (somebody who works on the retail side could probably get an exact per-carton count of the current iPhone) the weight would work out just about right.

FYI, standard shipping containers weigh between 3,701 and 3,968kg empty (see http://www.foreign-trade.com/reference/ocean.cfm), so I would imagine that the article was referring to the net, rather than gross weight.

Ric
 
Can you imagine if that boat sank... or, better yet, perhaps that will be how this happens: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/5470189/.

I just love the craftiness involved in getting some of these Apple rumors. What other company has people checking trade records and analyzing shipment weights for hints of new products?
 
rockstarjoe said:
Remember when the first iphone arrived in armored cars with armed guards? That was awesome.

EDIT: Don't those dates sound too early to be the iphone? March?
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Maybe inside of each container there is an armor car with goodies inside.


Sbrocket said:
ITT: Powerbook G5 discussion.
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OMG Powerbook G5s! that's what I've been waiting for! Give me! Gime me!

Or perhaps 30" iPods. =p
 
those containers are full of new mac-pros, the new iphone, and the iTablet (thus the 'electric computer' identifier). In Jan, there was not a 'one more thing' moment because the iTablet was not ready. It may be ready now...
 
The XServe is 31.7lbs.

This shipment, 7140 kg / 504 units = 14.2kg = 31.3lbs.

They also would likely be classified as "Electric Computer" instead of "Desktop Computer."
 
Apple's moving their focus over to the TV.

They've made the ultimately simple computer, the iMac.

Now they're going to take that same concept and scale it up.

It's going to be an iMac with a 60" screen... yet still weighs only 30 pounds. Huge processing power. Huge hardrive. TV tuner. Touchscreen. Motion detecting mouse. Can have any other Apple portable docked in it.

It's like every flipping product Apple has ever made combined with a TV and a Wii.
 
Another idea

If the packages are 17-20 pounds each, what about new cinema displays. The 20" weighs about 15lbs...
 
Crap, Now I know for sure. I'm waiting for wwdc, before I buy my new mac pro with acd. I need a new computer so bad. It's very hard to wait. I was hopping for a new acd, maybe a wee bit of extra ram in the mac pros 2 x 2 gig sticks, as a minor update before nealham.

But now this news of some new device. Might be something I just have to have, or want to have. And what me wants me gets :D

30 lbs?
Might be some new imac classic 30th anniversary all in one. A replacement for the aging mac mini.
 
My guess: Cube v2.

Slightly beefed up and bigger... with packaging, that would be about 30 lbs. Can't be new Cinema Displays... I doubt at this point they would replace one and not the whole line at once. BTW: You don't put multiple products/dimensions on one pallet.
 
I think it is going to be a new product, here is why;
The "units" weigh about the same as the current cinema displays, but am i the only person that think the displays are particularly chunky? The new ones are going to be a lot thinner, thats a given from me and therefore lighter?
Its too heavy for a mac pro,
Too light for iMacs (and they have just been refreshed)
i don't need to explain why they are not tablets or iphones (unless there is more than one per "unit", hummm...)

What could it be?
a TV?
another desktop computer... slightly smaller than the mac pro?
Something completely unheard of?
 
Units versus Boxes

EagerDragon said:
Regardless of weight, 504 units is a very low number of items for one of these containers if the size of the boxes are anywhere twice the size of a normal iPhone box.

Sounds like some kind of computer and not an iPhone, the bulk size and weight point to an item other than an iPhone.

Maybe that Mini-Tower that a lot of people are looking for!!!!!!!!


If you then eliminate the weight for packaging, that becomes around 17 pounds.
What weights 15 to 19 pounds in their inventory?
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504 boxes most likely means the number of crates on the container, each of which could easily container between 30 to 100 iPhones.
 
I remembered when I bought my iPhone from Apple store the 2nd day it came out, the employee pulled it from a box full of iphone. It doesn't make sense if they are not initially packed in a box from oversea. Otherwise, Apple (or distributors) will need to hire ppl to prep the box and ship them out to each individual store.

Just like the EeePC, they arrived in a box with 7 or 10 of them in to U.S. Remember the incident while ago that an online store shipped out a box with 7 ~ 10 EeePC because they thought each box only has one EeePC?
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Apple's moving their focus over to the TV.

They've made the ultimately simple computer, the iMac.

Now they're going to take that same concept and scale it up.

It's going to be an iMac with a 60" screen... yet still weighs only 30 pounds. Huge processing power. Huge hardrive. TV tuner. Touchscreen. Motion detecting mouse. Can have any other Apple portable docked in it.

It's like every flipping product Apple has ever made combined with a TV and a Wii.
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Would you really want to have to touch a 60" screen?
 
Trip.Tucker said:
Longofest, don't just delete my post if you have a problem with it. Thats cowardly.
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I agree. My post was edited when I mentioned that the article title should use "en route", rather than "in route", which I don't believe is correct, but maybe it is since he didn't make the change.

If there was a private way to contact them for article corrections, I would use it.
 
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