I've already ordered a G4 but its taking awhile to ship to me.
should I hold off and wait for the new G5 to come out?
should I hold off and wait for the new G5 to come out?
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Should I wait for G5 Powerbooks?
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does it take forever to ship from the apple online store?
its almost been a week since I made my order and nothing has changed.
its almost been a week since I made my order and nothing has changed.
JonTheRvelator said:
If you bought a none standard powerbook (eg bigger harddrive extra RAM) it can take up to a week or even more for them to build it (depending on how busy it is).
You could wait for a G5, but that could be months still. Plus I wouldn't want a Rev. A of "the mother of all thermal challenges"
Sounds like a portable grill to me!mfacey said:If you bought a none standard powerbook (eg bigger harddrive extra RAM) it can take up to a week or even more for them to build it (depending on how busy it is).
You could wait for a G5, but that could be months still. Plus I wouldn't want a Rev. A of "the mother of all thermal challenges"
so its pointless to wait then.
thats cool.
I just ordered the G4 15" with the 100gb hard drive and 128mb of RAM. Thats all I moded on the system. I ordered it on 04.19.05, they said it would ship by 04.22.05 and no it says on or before 04.28.05. So I don't know whats going on.
Yea I would just keep the order. Powerbooks were updated back in January, so I wouldn't expect an update till around, ohhhhhh.....September, maybe. Even then it may not be a G5, but as wdlove said, the Rev As may have bugs in them that would be fixed in the Rev Bs. The Powerbook right now are in Rev D so you can be sure that's there are few flaws.
DXoverDY said:
really?
they told me I'd get a special website to go to so I could download it.
Tiger will be pretty cool I guess, (I'm new to macs)
JonTheRvelator said:
Where did you buy it? They probably said/meant that there was a special website where you could order the Tiger Up-to-date package and pay just shipping and handling (www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate). There are no legal downloads of Tiger for the general public.
I second that congratulations, I am thrilled with my Rev. D, there will always be a new model/idea on the horizon.
i suppose it just depends on how old you are, and how long you expect to live
if your under 40 and expect to live till 80 then yes, i might be worth waiting because you might get a year or two years use out of it
there at least 36 years away
if your under 40 and expect to live till 80 then yes, i might be worth waiting because you might get a year or two years use out of it
there at least 36 years away
They never did make a G5 powerbook.. if I saw this post back in 2005 I would say just go with the 1.67ghz G4.
Well gee they probably know that by now, only a few short 14 years later...
The damn mailing systems probably lost it.
First they bend your G5 tower, then they crack your eMac, and next thing you know, they lose your PowerBook G5!
Someone ought to send those people a flippin' subpoena!
(EDIT: "BakedBeans was last seen: 12y 36w ago"
Yeah, that's right. I haven't had any for about that long.
Man, were they great on Texas Toast though.
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This happened to someone, worst of all, it was a quad. At least it still worked, but the nice tower was bent thanks to careless idiots who throw the packages into the back of the trucks.