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iMac Shipping Delays

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 30-seconds?-but-i-want-it-now! dept.

Leslie Holland writes "A new article from Mac insider news site Think Secret explains some of the recent iMac shipping delays. According to Think Secret, many of the first-run models were hit by firmware issues, and we shouldn't expect to see the low-end units for some time."

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  1. Saw a few at a reseller yesterday by Bravo_Two_Zero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmmm... that might explain why, with it being a hot new model, there were quite a few on the shelf at the distribution center of a large reseller I happened to be touring yesterday. They had what looked like 4 of them on one of the burn-in tables (4 would be a lot, given that this was the only station where Macs did any serious burn-in time). I didn't even think about it being related to intentionally-delayed shipping.

    Also, they looked a lot cooler before I saw one in person. They really do resemble a mid-70s industrial desk lamp. Hey, I'd take one in a heartbeat, but the cube was waaaaay sexier!

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  2. Shipping to Anchorage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I love it when these morons state that their units were shipped back to Tiawan. Have people NOT heard about the International Date Line?

    When the items are shipped from Tiawan to Anchorage, they will arrive at customs the day BEFORE they were shipped. When Fedex sorts the item's shipping process by data, it will appear in Alaska BEFORE it was shipped form Tiawan because of that pesky ol International Date Line.

    This leads the unobservant individual to think their order was in Tiawan after it was in Alaska.

    Silly rabbits.