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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."
Hopefully the increase in CPU sales mean that Apple still has some life in it as far as the PC market goes.
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
That's a miniscule amount when you look at the profits of just about any other tech company. $61million in profits can barely drive R&D for a company like Dell or Gateway.
Any thoughts on how long apple can keep up results this mediocre?
RST
they pay people to promote them here...
Apple also confirms that no new customers will be buying any of their products except iPods.
It's OK, I had Karma to burn.
now that Congress has shot down the "Same Sex Marriage" Amendment, Apple's stock has gotten another boost!
You're an idiot, you know that? No, I'm not trolling, I'm addressing your assertion that it's ridiculous to wait two weeks to get something you paid for. Amazon takes months, computer systems often take weeks (especially high-demand ones like this!) and even downloadable software can take days. Here's to hoping you get your G5 soon, but you've got a seriously underestimated view of the time it takes for things to get where they're going.
It's rediculous to have to wait for 2 weeks to get something that you paid money for.
You haven't paid 1 cent until it ships. And I'm gonna wager a large amount of money that your job doesn't require you to be able to spell English words correctly.
if it doesn't ship out by tomorrow morning, I am just going to cancel it and build a dual opteron system I specced out on new egg
If you feel you must, go ahead. You'll be sorry though. G5's are worth waiting for.
I read article that after M$ announced to use the G5 chip, and took delivery of a truckload of Powermac G5's, (remember Micheal Hanscom taking pictures?) they announce they are not going to use the G5 chip in the X-box and instead going with the Asian chipmakers.
Now I know how sneaky how M$ is, they gave the chip technology to the Asian firm?. No doubt in my mind.
new copper process, you better beleive it.
Shipping SMP Workstations^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HDesktops as standard must've helped push those CPU sales to their current peak...
/it/ count as the fastest desktop computer?
P.S: if I call my dual Opteron workstation a desktop, does
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.
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
See subject.
Will someone please shoot the dying dog that is Apple????