Wow! New Apple products that are in short supply for the first few months after release. When did this start?
There's a big difference between rumours and official announcements. Apple certainly haven't announced the next Mac Pro. Hopefully they won't do so until it's actually ready to ship. If it's shipping on the last day of November it should have been announced in November, not in mid-October!
You know you can design the greatest device in the world and have everyone drooling over it, but if you cannot deliver, time and time again, people will move on and realize the difference between wants and needs.
Apple is dropping the ball big time IMHO, the iPhone 5, iTunes 11, the iPad mini and now the iMac...
I'm a bit confused... by the time the 2012 iMacs are released, Haswell will only be a few months away?
The most powerful corporation on the planet does not launch a new product line during the holidays with an expectation the supply chains will be choked off. Somebody screwed up.
Since when do macrumors articles about delays count as news? This entire article is a rumor...
You know you can design the greatest device in the world and have everyone drooling over it, but if you cannot deliver, time and time again, people will move on and realize the difference between wants and needs.
Apple is dropping the ball big time IMHO, the iPhone 5, iTunes 11, the iPad mini and now the iMac...
Currently, there is a 2 week wait for an iPad Mini, that doesn't seem bad.
This is why the whole fall cycle for every ios product makes no sense. If everything you want to sell is in short supply for the important holiday season; you wont be selling as many products as you could have.
Wilson this morning chopped his forecast for 2012 Nexus 7 tablet sales to 4 million units from 5 million. For 2013, he now sees Google selling 9.6 million Nexus devices – including both 7-inch and 10-inch models – down from a previous forecast of 14.6 million.
“We are bullish on Google, but still have not seen the device that makes us bullish on its Nexus hardware,” he writes. “We are lowering our Nexus revenue estimates, but raising our EPS estimates as margins should improve from less hardware in the mix.” Let me underline that point: Google actually loses money on the Nexus 7 hardware, so the fewer tablets it sells…the more money it makes. Ergo, Wilson trimmed his revenue estimates for both this year and next year, but inched up his EPS estimates.
Stop making sense here!
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You must be an experienced Apple consumer. While Apple has gotten better with their A productions (hence the delays) I agree that it is always better to wait for Rev. B., sometimes even Rev C. (Outwaited the iPad until #3)
Prices are usually the same, but they give you more memory or something and usually within 6 months.
Anybody who has ever produced anything new knows that despite the best planning , zero production test runs etc. it all changes when the chips are down and one needs to run large quantities for real.
Only then do all the problems show up.
People who think that any company wouldn't like to ship every piece they can make as fast as possible need to take a business 101 class!
Fact - Tom Cook said at the keynote that supplies would be limited
Additionally, the sources said new iMac models use panels sourced only from LGD. The company has had to develop a new production process for mass producing the iMac panels and has limited capacity, which is delaying shipments.
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DigiTimes reports that shipments of both the iPad mini and iMac are expected to be constrained throughout 2012. In both cases, display production appears to be the limiting factor.
For the iPad mini, the panels have reportedly seen low yield rates, especially from one of Apple's suppliers. As a result, Apple may only reach 6 million of an estimated 10 million target for iPad mini shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Meanwhile, the newly announced iMacs will also see constrained supplies due to issues with iMac panels from LGD.Yields of both products aren't expected to reach target goals until the first quarter of 2013.
Apple just announced that the new iMac would go on sale on Friday, November 30th, but the 27" model wouldn't start shipping until December.
Article Link: New iMac and iPad mini to be in Short Supply Until 2013
This is really Appalling. You have to pay through your nose and wait for ages to get hold of a product with inferior and outdated internals.
Welcome to the world of Sony.
For all blaming Samsung vs Apple as the culprit behind this, you should remember that no 27" panel has ever come from Samsung, they've all been LG. samsung has just now begun producing 27" panels but they're PLS and not IPS
NO it is not. The A5 chip is 55% of the size of the one in the old iPad 2. It is using the new 32nm cpu technology, consumes less power and less heat.ummmm the ipad mini has the same lame screen and the same old chips that are in the old ipad 2..lol that is on the damn 3gs .. you mean tok tell me that apple is having trouble making that crap?
half wait