Apple Confirms G5 Based iMac to Ship in September

evn writes "Apple Insider and Yahoo News are carrying stories about Apple's 3rd quarter report including confirmation of a G5 iMac during Apple's webcast conference call to discuss the filing: 'IBM's manufacturing problems have also impacted our next generation iMac. We normally don't talk about unannounced products but we feel you need to know about the current situation. The new iMac is based on the G5 processor. We could not secure the necessary supply of G5 processors to launch our new iMac on schedule: and as we indicated a few weeks ago, we now plan to announce and ship it in september.' Apple made $61 million dollars profit on $2.01 billion dollars in Q3/04 and had the highest CPU shipments in three and a half years."

Comments

Re:How relevant are Apple now?

[cujo_1111]

Moron...

If Gateway were going backwards then they would be to the left of the Y-axis.

You know.... (AMD)

[Chordonblue]

If they had went with the Athlon 64, this wouldn't be an issue now. First they get screwed by Motorola - big shocker there. EVERYONE who has dealt with them on processors has gotten screwed at one point in time (Atari, Commodore, Apple, etc.).

Then, they take turns bending over for IBM who is having definate supply issues. They knew this could happen - even IBM told them that it was a possiblilty. Apple simply isn't the top vendor on IBM's like.

But supply is the oft used excuse to explain why Apple never went with X86-64/AMD. And yet, AMD doesn't seem to have an issue supplying the masses, even in current high demand.

I think they totally screwed up here. By the time Apple gets their share of G5's, the traditional buying market will be missed (August/September). The students at my school will have already purchased a computer and unfortunately, it won't be a new iMac.

While I do look forward to playing with a G5 iMac, I have to say that I think they missed an opportunity here.

DROOL not DRUEL

[meadowsp]

See subject.