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Ok, who's getting a new iMac g5?

My orders

I actually ordered 2 imacs yesterday.

For myself, a 20" Rev B with BT keyboard and mouse. Ordered 2GB of RAM from crucial, so this is going to be one sweet machine. Also picked a airport express (30 free itunes!!!), a freebie HP printer (after rebate), and an iSight. Edu discount made this much nicer than it would have been a few weeks ago.

For my Dad, I ordered a rev A 1.8Ghz 17", stock. At $999 (with my Mom's Edu discount), this was too good to pass up. He doesn't use bluetooth or Wifi, so those new features will be lost on him. The HD increase would be meaningless, as he doesn't do any video editing. I'm sending him my 512MB of ram from the above computer, so he'll be fine with 768MB of RAM, as least for now. I also ordered him an iSight. That was really the big selling feature to them... video chat so they can see my son (their grandson) from across the country.

So, a big day for apple from our family. I can't wait for the computers to get here. I'm so glad I waited.

-alywa
 
G-Funk said:
I Would go for an iMac 2Ghz G5 But.. WWDC is in a month coming. so i would wait a while before i make a purchace. also.
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There won't be another iMac update at WWDC. That's near to impossible. :p This is a great time to buy. There probably won't be another iMac update for 8 months, and if you think about it, the next update will probably be: minor speed bump and frontside bus increase, no change in the RAM (the standard probably won't go above 512 for 1-2 years now), no change in the HD space, POSSIBLY a better graphics card but Apple has never been aggressive with GPU offerings.

The only difference may be in the processor (MP). I'm not waiting 8 months though. :p This iMac is a huge upgrade over the previous, and will be an awesome machine for years to come.
 
alywa said:
I actually ordered 2 imacs yesterday.

For myself, a 20" Rev B with BT keyboard and mouse. Ordered 2GB of RAM from crucial, so this is going to be one sweet machine. Also picked a airport express (30 free itunes!!!), a freebie HP printer (after rebate), and an iSight. Edu discount made this much nicer than it would have been a few weeks ago.

For my Dad, I ordered a rev A 1.8Ghz 17", stock. At $999 (with my Mom's Edu discount), this was too good to pass up. He doesn't use bluetooth or Wifi, so those new features will be lost on him. The HD increase would be meaningless, as he doesn't do any video editing. I'm sending him my 512MB of ram from the above computer, so he'll be fine with 768MB of RAM, as least for now. I also ordered him an iSight. That was really the big selling feature to them... video chat so they can see my son (their grandson) from across the country.

So, a big day for apple from our family. I can't wait for the computers to get here. I'm so glad I waited.

-alywa
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That sounds great! :D Congratulations on the purchases. :cool:
 
1GB memory from Crucial

Just priced the 1GB module for the iMac 2.0GHz, 20" at Crucial and it is $145.99 plus tax/shipping. Will have it waiting for my iMac's arrival next week. It should sing with 1.5GB of memory.... :D
 
So I'm guesing no one's iMac has shipped yet? I ordered mine 10 minutes after the Canadian Apple store went back online yesterday and have an estimated ship date of on or before May 6th.
 
McMac said:
Mine currently says "Sent to Manufacturing", but has an estimated ship date of the 10th. I order at around 6:30 am PDT on the day of release.
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Ditto for mine...ordered at the same time as yours. Ship "on or before the 10th...." I figure by Friday the 6th :)
 
I'm getting mine soon (w/in 3 weeks?).

20" 2.0 ghz
1 gb ram (512x2)
250gb
airport extreme base station
Applecare


Can't wait!!!! :D
 
adam1185 said:
So I'm guesing no one's iMac has shipped yet? I ordered mine 10 minutes after the Canadian Apple store went back online yesterday and have an estimated ship date of on or before May 6th.
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Same here...I ordered at 7:50 PST and mine is on or before the 6th, still processing.
 
Fredstar said:
How much better is the Radeon 9600 vs the FX 5200 64mb?
I am definately considering as i have a nice 10% off :)
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Well according to Apple's tests, the frame rate is 81% faster on the new 2.0 GHz iMac Rev B vs the Rev A.

That is significant!
 
I think the iMac G5 rev B is going to be my next Mac, but I want to wait to see if the problems with hard drive access speed (can't remember the exact problem) are cleared up. I would hope that Apple fixed that, but you never know.

Plus, there's the slight possibility that hell could freeze over and Steve could announce a G5 PowerBook at WWDC. If that happened, my choice would be really tough. So, I'm going to wait until then, and then order the iMac should the temperature below indeed not drop.
 
razorme said:
Well according to Apple's tests, the frame rate is 81% faster on the new 2.0 GHz iMac Rev B vs the Rev A.

That is significant!
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Yeh it isn't bad, but Apple have been proved to overstate their 'benchmarks' to sell their new products, i mean take the ridiculous over 200% frame rate improvement the Rev A iMac G5's apparently had over the G4 iMacs. It works in that it makes me want one, but also kinda makes us rev a owners pissed off. ah well. After doing research the Radeon 9600 is pretty much the same as the FX5200, just with double the vram.
I have decided no rev b for me, i am sticking with my iMac till there is the next Power Mac update, just not worth the hassle of switching Macs again.
 
SteveC said:
There won't be another iMac update at WWDC. That's near to impossible. :p This is a great time to buy. There probably won't be another iMac update for 8 months, and if you think about it, the next update will probably be: minor speed bump and frontside bus increase, no change in the RAM (the standard probably won't go above 512 for 1-2 years now), no change in the HD space, POSSIBLY a better graphics card but Apple has never been aggressive with GPU offerings.

The only difference may be in the processor (MP). I'm not waiting 8 months though. :p This iMac is a huge upgrade over the previous, and will be an awesome machine for years to come.
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I know.. But what if steve come up with a new Powerbook G5 ? or a new line of Mac Machines like "Mac Micro" :cool: :D or something like that . i don't want to spend that amount of money now and suffer later !!
 
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