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Monday, April 25, 2005, 02:00 pm
iMac ship times delayed; consumers await new models
Apple and Macintosh news site MacNN.com is first to note that Apple's online store has extended the shipping timeframe for iMac G5 orders to 5-7 business days. Meanwhile, other tipsters note that built-to-order configurations are reflecting wait times of 7-10 business days. Previous reports indicated that Apple could begin releasing a slew of new CPU-based hardware offerings as early as Tuesday. There is still a chance that Apple will hold off hardware introductions to the first week of May, sources warned.
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Sounds about right. We get Revb iMacs in May and then Rev C in January.
Hmmm I'm in a bit of a quandry. I was planning on buying an iMac in Oct but if they announce now then the it will be a bit long in the tooth by Oct and I might be better off to wait for MWSF for the iMac Revc unless Apple wishes to do another lengthy cycle for the iMac refresh.
That has me thinking. I should just grab a mini in Oct and see how things go. When the revc iMac comes I then decide if I want to keep the mini or sell and apply towards iMac. Decisions decisions decisions.
Apple and Macintosh news site MacNN.com is first to note that Apple's online store has extended the shipping timeframe for iMac G5 orders to 5-7 business days. Meanwhile, other tipsters note that built-to-order configurations are reflecting wait times of 7-10 business days. Previous reports indicated that Apple could begin releasing a slew of new CPU-based hardware offerings as early as Tuesday. There is still a chance that Apple will hold off hardware introductions to the first week of May, sources warned.
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I'm personally kind of interested from a marketing perspective to see how Apple times the intro of new models. Right now their primary marketing efforts on Tiger, I wonder how long it will take them to move the spotlight (hehe) to new hardware offerings.
Maybe it is just the 512 mb update for Tiger?
Maybe it is just the 512 mb update for Tiger?
I think you hit it on the nose.
Maybe it is just the 512 mb update for Tiger?
If I had to guess, that's what I'd bet on.
I think a new configuration with more memory standard, and a slightly better graphics card, would make this appealing for people who's machines just can't quite hack Tiger at the present moment.
If they're going to upgrade the video card, they might as well bump the procs, too. Hell, the proc update would take less effort than upgrading the video card, which would require a motherboard redesign...
What if these shipping delays are simply attributable to these Macs being fitted with Tiger and some changes to the standard RAM? 
OTOH, eMacs, iMacs, iBooks and PMs are all due for upgrades. Apple might as well update the OS along with some of the specs. We're also getting into the education buying seasonÑall the more reason to update the consumer Macs.
Oh but please, let's not have a PM update like Think Secret would have us believe. Please let them be wrong on that one. It'd be so dishearteningly lame. 
I think a new configuration with more memory standard, and a slightly better graphics card...
Do you mean the 23" model
?
Apple and Macintosh news site MacNN.com is first to note that Apple's online store has extended the shipping timeframe for iMac G5 orders to 5-7 business days.
This in Australia, Canada and the US.
24 hours at several online stores in europe - as in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Japan - same business day.
Next rumor please
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I think this is actually just an adjustment to correct the *falsly* positive news story broken earlier with the following link.
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1020
Ship dates change all the time. Gasp!
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