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It depends if it's a 20 or 40 ft container. Our 20ft container weighs in at 6000kg net empty. I estimate about 2kg per item, taking into account pallets.
Mystery Shipment?!
I think its fairly obvious that the mystery shipment was a batch of the updated Aluminium Imacs...
We got a few of them in our shop the other day, and it was interesting to note that the production date on the boxes was surprisingly early, quite a few weeks before the update was announced... at 10kg a box roughly, it does make sense....
I think its fairly obvious that the mystery shipment was a batch of the updated Aluminium Imacs...
We got a few of them in our shop the other day, and it was interesting to note that the production date on the boxes was surprisingly early, quite a few weeks before the update was announced... at 10kg a box roughly, it does make sense....
Omg!!!!!!!!
Finally - we all waited its -oh, YES!
Its
the
POWERBOOK G5
(including the new cooling system and the battery for extra long charges of 1.5h)
EDIT: OK, some beat me to it (I didn't read everything before posting) - but still...
whoa
Finally - we all waited its -oh, YES!
Its
the
POWERBOOK G5
(including the new cooling system and the battery for extra long charges of 1.5h)
EDIT: OK, some beat me to it (I didn't read everything before posting) - but still...
Agreed. Smaller retail items are always packed in multiples into larger boxes for shipping, and it's those larger boxes that would be reflected on the shipping manifests, not the total number of individual retail items.
"Electric Computers" Theory
EDIT - didn't get to the other posts on this before I did my home work...FWIW...
Ok, being in academia I did some homework too. Initial assumptions:
- the weight most likely does include the container (shippers don't ship containers for free because weight costs money in fuel)
- a MacBook weighs 3.86 kg (8.5 lbs) in it's shipping state; http://www.jr.com/apple/pe/APP_MB403LL_SL_A/#productTabShipping
504 * 3.86 kg = 1945.44 kg
I searched for the weight of an average shipping container like the one most likely used (http://www.export911.com/e911/ship/dimen.htm).
"A 20' x 8.5' dry cargo container may weigh 1,800 kgs. to 2,400 kgs., a 40' x 8.5' may weigh 2,800 kgs. to 4,000 kgs, and a 40' x 9.5' may weigh 3,900 kgs. to 4,200 kgs."
If we assume the largest container (as I couldn't find the physical dimensions of a MacBook box) the total weight works out to 6145.44 kg.
So, whatever was in that shipping container was, on average, 2 kg heavier than a current MacBook. Whatever it is it's bigger than the mass of any laptop and less than the mass of any desktop (including iMac) Apple makes.
EDIT - didn't get to the other posts on this before I did my home work...FWIW...
Ok, being in academia I did some homework too. Initial assumptions:
- the weight most likely does include the container (shippers don't ship containers for free because weight costs money in fuel)
- a MacBook weighs 3.86 kg (8.5 lbs) in it's shipping state; http://www.jr.com/apple/pe/APP_MB403LL_SL_A/#productTabShipping
504 * 3.86 kg = 1945.44 kg
I searched for the weight of an average shipping container like the one most likely used (http://www.export911.com/e911/ship/dimen.htm).
"A 20' x 8.5' dry cargo container may weigh 1,800 kgs. to 2,400 kgs., a 40' x 8.5' may weigh 2,800 kgs. to 4,000 kgs, and a 40' x 9.5' may weigh 3,900 kgs. to 4,200 kgs."
If we assume the largest container (as I couldn't find the physical dimensions of a MacBook box) the total weight works out to 6145.44 kg.
So, whatever was in that shipping container was, on average, 2 kg heavier than a current MacBook. Whatever it is it's bigger than the mass of any laptop and less than the mass of any desktop (including iMac) Apple makes.
The math doesn't add up. I've been researching and here's what I've come up with :
A "container" is built in 3 sizes :
Lets assume it was the smallest one : 20' long X 8' wide X 8'6" high--
Interior Length 19'4 ¼" Interior Width 7'8 ½"
Interior Height 7'10" Payload 48,000lbs (21,000 kg )
Door Height 7'5" Door Width 7'8 ½"
Cubic Capacity 1171 cu ft Gross Weight 67,200lbs
Tare Weight 4900lbs
This is the smallest one and if the weights are correct Apple would have shipped a partially filled container since the payload is 48,000 lbs. ( 21,000 kg ) and the report said the container's weight was 7140 kg. ( 15,741 lbs. )
Pallets usually come in 40" wide X 48" long X 5" high.
These pallet dimensions would allow for 2 rows side by side and 10 deep inside the container.
Now..Companies NEVER ship partially filled containers in ocean container ships. For cost reasons alone.
I can only surmise that the items in question were being shipped on pallets instead of inside a container or Apple shared a container with a different company or the report is incorrect.
Or..
The individual product dimension was so big it would only weigh 7140 kg. inside a container which leaves out iPhones due to the dimension of the iPhone and averaging the weight of a single box containing a single iPhone at .75 lb. ( including box )
This is either wrong or a shipment of goods half the size ( in cubic feet and net weight ) of a 30" Cinema Display.
I have completed my calculations
Each unit weighs 31 lbs ( 14.16 kg. ) and in order to fill the smallest ocean container with 2 pallets wide and 6-10 deep the dimensions for each unit would have to be 2.5 ft X 2.5 ft. X 1 ft. ( approx. ) or about the size of a box that would hold two of the fabled "iPad"
So in conclusion. Jobs will show the new 3G iPhone but there's "one more thing" and it is about 8" X 4.5 " X 1".
New re-designed Mac Mini's
A "container" is built in 3 sizes :
Lets assume it was the smallest one : 20' long X 8' wide X 8'6" high--
Interior Length 19'4 ¼" Interior Width 7'8 ½"
Interior Height 7'10" Payload 48,000lbs (21,000 kg )
Door Height 7'5" Door Width 7'8 ½"
Cubic Capacity 1171 cu ft Gross Weight 67,200lbs
Tare Weight 4900lbs
This is the smallest one and if the weights are correct Apple would have shipped a partially filled container since the payload is 48,000 lbs. ( 21,000 kg ) and the report said the container's weight was 7140 kg. ( 15,741 lbs. )
Pallets usually come in 40" wide X 48" long X 5" high.
These pallet dimensions would allow for 2 rows side by side and 10 deep inside the container.
Now..Companies NEVER ship partially filled containers in ocean container ships. For cost reasons alone.
I can only surmise that the items in question were being shipped on pallets instead of inside a container or Apple shared a container with a different company or the report is incorrect.
Or..
The individual product dimension was so big it would only weigh 7140 kg. inside a container which leaves out iPhones due to the dimension of the iPhone and averaging the weight of a single box containing a single iPhone at .75 lb. ( including box )
This is either wrong or a shipment of goods half the size ( in cubic feet and net weight ) of a 30" Cinema Display.
I have completed my calculations
Each unit weighs 31 lbs ( 14.16 kg. ) and in order to fill the smallest ocean container with 2 pallets wide and 6-10 deep the dimensions for each unit would have to be 2.5 ft X 2.5 ft. X 1 ft. ( approx. ) or about the size of a box that would hold two of the fabled "iPad"
So in conclusion. Jobs will show the new 3G iPhone but there's "one more thing" and it is about 8" X 4.5 " X 1".
New re-designed Mac Mini's
Apple is trying to market themselves as a "Greener Apple". These devices are probably new cinema displays.
WWDC would be the perfect place to show everyone else their new cinema displays without harmful chemicals. The introduction of the new cinema displays at WWDC would show people that apple is really trying to take a step forward in making themselves "green". And also the cinema displays are LONG OVERDUE.
WWDC would be the perfect place to show everyone else their new cinema displays without harmful chemicals. The introduction of the new cinema displays at WWDC would show people that apple is really trying to take a step forward in making themselves "green". And also the cinema displays are LONG OVERDUE.
The math doesn't add up. I've been researching and here's what I've come up with :
A "container" is built in 3 sizes :
Lets assume it was the smallest one : 20' long X 8' wide X 8'6" high--
Interior Length 19'4 ¼" Interior Width 7'8 ½"
Interior Height 7'10" Payload 48,000lbs (21,000 kg )
Door Height 7'5" Door Width 7'8 ½"
Cubic Capacity 1171 cu ft Gross Weight 67,200lbs
Tare Weight 4900lbs
This is the smallest one and if the weights are correct Apple would have shipped a partially filled container since the payload is 48,000 lbs. ( 21,000 kg ) and the report said the container's weight was 7140 kg. ( 15,741 lbs. )
Pallets usually come in 40" wide X 48" long X 5" high.
These pallet dimensions would allow for 2 rows side by side and 10 deep inside the container.
Now..Companies NEVER ship partially filled containers in ocean container ships. For cost reasons alone.
I can only surmise that the items in question were being shipped on pallets instead of inside a container or Apple shared a container with a different company or the report is incorrect.
Or..
The individual product dimension was so big it would only weigh 7140 kg. inside a container which leaves out iPhones due to the dimension of the iPhone and averaging the weight of a single box containing a single iPhone at .75 lb. ( including box )
This is either wrong or a shipment of goods half the size ( in cubic feet and net weight ) of a 30" Cinema Display.
I have completed my calculations
Each unit weighs 31 lbs ( 14.16 kg. ) and in order to fill the smallest ocean container with 2 pallets wide and 6-10 deep the dimensions for each unit would have to be 2.5 ft X 2.5 ft. X 1 ft. ( approx. ) or about the size of a box that would hold two of the fabled "iPad"
So in conclusion. Jobs will show the new 3G iPhone but there's "one more thing" and it is about 8" X 4.5 " X 1".
New re-designed Mac Mini's
My MBP box is not 12" deep - so I'll bet no other product from Apple would be so square in size - unless they come out with a new desktop.
My money would be on new ACDs...
Halloooo!?!?
The shipment was clearly a batch of the New Aluminium iMacs that arrived in store a few weeks ago!
Just look at the weights, somewhere between 12-14KGs, thats EXACTLY what a 20" iMac box weighs, they have the production date and gross weight printed on them, and I've sold hundreds - I know them well.
Production dates on them were 4-6 weeks before they were released.
No iPhone
No iTablet (which doesn't exist!!!)
No Mac Mini
No ACDs.
Sorry Folks.
The shipment was clearly a batch of the New Aluminium iMacs that arrived in store a few weeks ago!
Just look at the weights, somewhere between 12-14KGs, thats EXACTLY what a 20" iMac box weighs, they have the production date and gross weight printed on them, and I've sold hundreds - I know them well.
Production dates on them were 4-6 weeks before they were released.
No iPhone
No iTablet (which doesn't exist!!!)
No Mac Mini
No ACDs.
Sorry Folks.
Does anybody else think this crap is getting out of hand? I mean now we've got people reporting on boxes coming into the country. I know this is a rumors site, but does it stop before someone calculates Steve Jobs' average time between BMs and has some sort of formula for what they mean?
I think we are finally going to get our mid tower, and I am going to buy 2 or three of them for different rooms of my house.
How many financial news channels were watching what color socks Alan Greenspan was wearing to fed meetings? Human beings are pattern matching animals ... in the absence of any real data, we will make it up! Now, about SJs digestive track ...
I thought FoxConn (Hon Hai) was making the iPhone, not Quanta. Quanta makes Apple's computer products.
I have a feeling that these are not iPhones, but instead, iMacs.
I have a feeling that these are not iPhones, but instead, iMacs.
I actually don't mind it to be honest.
I enjoy reading rumors like this as it is interesting to me
Now, if it were my business, I sure wouldn't like it but I doubt this rumor will hurt Apple in any way