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Had mine up and running from my MBP's back up for 20 minutes now, awesome. Well impressed with the speakers. Display is gorgeous, but not as amazing as the retina MBP which has spoiled me for 6 months now. But I love it so far.
 
Mine arrived safely, just. The UPS guy called at the wrong house and by chance I glanced out the window. I managed to catch him up halfway down the road in bare feet. I've never run so fast :D

Hope you all get yours before Christmas, and if not it'll still be a wonderful new year :)

Merry Christmas all!

Wow that is an epic delivery ankehuber. Enjoy your hard-earned iMac! :apple:
 
YAAAYYYY mine arrived !

BOOOOOOO makes a clicking noise all the time ... dead on arrival :-(

WOw, that must suck big time. I feel your pain. Sounds like a harddrive gone bad....I´ve experienced this before.
I don´t know what I´m gonna do if I experience this when I get my iMac, going to go nuts probably! Luckily I have no harddrive in it, so there´s no moving parts....so less chance for failure from shipment.


Yay! my delivery date was not moved to december 27th. THat´s 12 days sooner than the original delivery date. And now I can finally track it. Happiness!
 
People of *Team 19th*, how are you all finding your new machines? I'm pretty excited about getting home and powering it up!

Hopefully the others who weren't as fortunate to get theirs today will get them soon!

Posted earlier re: perfect screen

Update 2:
CarbonCopyCloned the SSD to a memory card in case I want to clean-install.

Done a few benchmarks to compare with my old 2008 iMac (which is booting off ext FW disc as internal drive packed up a while ago).

Geekbench 13037 or 3.3x faster
Handbrake rip from Blu-ray copied to drive: 4.5x faster
Heaven (1920x1200) 65.5fps or 7.6x faster
Blackmagic disc speed test:
Read 449MB/s 8.7x faster
Write 434MB/s 10.9x faster

New iMac plays 1080p seamlessly. Old iMac struggles.

Very impressed with the performance!
 
YAAAYYYY mine arrived !

BOOOOOOO makes a clicking noise all the time ... dead on arrival :-(

I agree with iMcLovin, it sounds like the hard disc has packed up. My old iMac drive started making clunking noises then died a few months ago. Hopefully Apple can sort a replacement ASAP.
 
I dithered indecisively until finally ordering on the 5th....now paying the penalty.

Still processing.....

Delivery estimated as 3rd to 10th January.
 
I dithered indecisively until finally ordering on the 5th....now paying the penalty.

Still processing.....

Delivery estimated as 3rd to 10th January.

I ordered on the 30th and i'm still in processing too...

estimated date: 02 Jan, 2013 - 08 Jan, 2013

I'm getting pretty annoyed right now to be honest. I just want the damn thing sooo bad
 
ok getting frustrated now lol, im 10 miles from Barking and 12 hours later still no sign anyone any idea how late they deliver ?

Barking, United Kingdom 19/12/2012 7:18 Out for Delivery
19/12/2012 6:55 Destination Scan
19/12/2012 6:47 Arrival Scan
Stansted, United Kingdom 19/12/2012 5:50 Departure Scan
Stansted, United Kingdom 18/12/2012 18:30 Arrival Scan
Koeln, Germany 18/12/2012 5:05 Departure Scan
18/12/2012 2:15 Import Scan
Koeln, Germany 17/12/2012 23:52 Import Scan
Koeln, Germany 16/12/2012 16:56 Arrival Scan
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 16/12/2012 12:52 Departure Scan
16/12/2012 10:36 Arrival Scan
Shanghai, China 16/12/2012 4:53 Departure Scan
Shanghai, China 14/12/2012 23:40 Export Scan

China 14/12/2012 23:17 Order Processed: Ready for UPS
 
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Ordered my 27" iMac on The 16th Dec. My delivery is January. I had ordered on launch day but regretted the spec I went for and cancelled. I would rather wait a bit longer and get a higher spec imac.
 
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