Haven't Japan learned that M$ is invincible everywhere even in the U.S. If our very own DOJ couldn't put up a dent, what makes you think Japan would be any different.
Japan will rabidly defend any Japanese company from a foriegn company if they find that foriegn firm is a threat. It's happened before, it will happen again. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but Japan looks out for #1 first.
I work at an Apple Specialist in SF, CA. We can get dual 1.8 next day and have been able to since the announcement. Why don't you try a local resller or call on your order and have things sped up.
You also mentioned you paid good money to wait. I have not heard of anyone actually taking payment without shippment.
BTW, it will be worth the wait.
I made mine BTO(Radeon 9600XT, is that causing the holdup?), I can't get it through an Apple reseller because there no Apple resellers within 100 miles who actually has the stuff in stock(my university has iBooks and powerbooks, but they just refer you to Apple's site if you want anything else). I went through Apple's site to get the developer discount, I don't think I can get that at a retailer....
I'm starting to think that a dual Opteron system would probably meet my needs almost as well and be $400 less($500 if I can get them to refund my student dev fee)
You said in your first post that you were waiting for a dual 2GHz, retard.
God I love feeding trolls, here is my first post: into production when they don't even have enough G5s for the Powermacs and XServes right now. Myself, and a lot of internet posters are very frustrated with the delays in shipping. I ordered a dual g5 2 weeks ago, and 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(anyone have any suggestions for a motherboard?) I paid money for my computer, I expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion. I need it to get work done. It's rediculous to have to wait for 2 weeks to get something that you paid money for.
To quoth Cowboy Neal, "I wasn't born an Apple hater, I became one over time" or something along those lines.
So please, since I am so retarded point out to me where I said I was waiting for a 2Ghz machine. I know you probably aren't very bright, and get distracted by pretty numbers like 2, I was using the number 2 as in 2 weeks. God I love trolls.
The profits from each console are also important. I wonder which actualy has the highest profit per unit shipped. Nintendo is kind of a unique case because most of the best selling software on the system is made by Nintendo themselves(Mario, Metroid, Zelda etc). Are there a lot of casual ps2 gamers out there who own a playstation and maybe 3 or 4 games? In that case sony's profit per unit may not be all that high.
I actually ordered a 1.8Ghz, so I'm not sure that your conjecture holds. They seem to be having problems even getting the 1.8Ghzs into large scale production. Plus,
I will say it again(in case you didn't read the other threads), I got an Apple Loan, so yeah, basically I am already paying for the computer....
Heh, the problem is I am waiting for a 1.8, not a 2.5. They have been selling the 1.8 for a while, I thought they would have been able to get them out faster.
If you're really in such a hurry, you could lift a finger to try to speed things up.
I just went to www.apple.com/store and clicked through the configurator for the 3 featured G5 configs. No changes, just Select->Continue->Continue from the store main page to get to the shopping cart where there's a ship time estimate.
The dual 1.8GHz: 3-5 business days.
The dual 2GHz: 3-5 business days.
The dual 2.5GHz: 4-6 weeks.
And when I ordered mine, it said "5-7 business days"(it was a BTO). I thought it would be shipped in 5-7 business days, it wasn't. The reason I ordered it from Apple instead of a reseller is because a) I got a discount(which without it I wouldn't even have considered a Mac, I love them, but not $2,000 for a stock config 1.8Ghz type of love), and I wanted to upgrade the video card to a 9600, which for only $40 is a pretty good deal.
I'm doing it on my iMac, but it's not very speedy for what I need it for and the resolution on it sucks for use as a desktop. Right now I am looking at the 20" monitor I bought for the G5(Iiyama, not Apple:P) and it sucks only being able to go up to 1024x768 when my monitor is capable of going to 1600x1200. Yeah, I know there is a hack to make it go higher, but I heard that can cause some major heat probelms. I don't want to be without a computer at all.
Did'ja actually pay money for it? Or did you give them a credit card, which hasn't been charged yet? Apple doesn't normally charge you until they ship.
I got it through an Apple educational loan, so basically as soon as I got the loan I started paying for it. Had I been aware how long it would take to get me the machine, I would have not taken out the loan.
I do bioinformatics programming. I can do it on a PC or a Mac, but I would rather do it on a mac. If however, the mac is going to take a month to ship, I would much rather do it on the Opteron, ie it actually gets here when I need it. Actually, because I got a discount with my mac, the Dual Opteron 242 runs about $400 less. A significant amount.
Just for reference, what were the profit numbers for Gateway, say in the last two or three years? Hint, look below the X axis of the chart...
So Gateway's profits are going back in time? Time to invest in Gateway!
into production when they don't even have enough G5s for the Powermacs and XServes right now. Myself, and a lot of internet posters are very frustrated with the delays in shipping. I ordered a dual g5 2 weeks ago, and 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(anyone have any suggestions for a motherboard?) I paid money for my computer, I expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion. I need it to get work done. It's rediculous to have to wait for 2 weeks to get something that you paid money for.
To quoth Cowboy Neal, "I wasn't born an Apple hater, I became one over time" or something along those lines.
heh, I ordered an iBook a while ago(typing from it), yeah, I know they are made in Taiwan. But it hasn't even shipped from there yet, I originally had a shipping date of the 9th, but it got moved back to the 28th. I got a student developer's discount, and I got it BTO, so I couldn't get it from a retailer.
If I don't get an email in an hour telling me it has shipped, I am going to go with a dual opteron. Just easier that way. I'm tired of playing games, I gave them their money, they could give me my computer, I thought that was how this capitalism thing was supposed to work. Experiences like this turn me from Apple fanboy to apple hater real quick.
Why can't Jobs just give ID a couple of G5s to guaranty that an OS X version is released simultaneously?
Probably because he doesn't have any to spare. I oredered one 2 weeks ago(dual 1.8, 9600 XT card just to play doom) and it hasn't even shipped yet, lots of others are having problems too, kinda makes me pissed at Apple....
I can just imagine the papers you would have to fill out
Experiment: "Drop cats repeatedly, observe results for use in robotics..."
See how well PETA would love that one!
The only problem with that solution is that you pretty much have to have a high end G5 to record the stuff. And also, for live broadcasts such as sports, can you just watch instead of recording it?
I went to Best Buy the other day just for kicks, and damn if some of the Toshiba laptops I saw(dunno if it was this one or not) looked like powerbooks, with the wide screen even! Though the screens were rather nice.
Heh, till you are asked to mod the code to do stuff for your university's aerospace dept. That being said, the code on that game is really well written and easy to modify. We added ships with realistic motion, and it was pretty dirt simple!
You don't need a fancy remote...Just get any old wireless (infrared) mouse, hook the dongle up to your PS/2 port, and you're all set.
Heh, he is using a powerbook, powerbooks don't have ps2 ports....
Though your solution does work with USB(probably)
Would they mind if I filled my tower computer cases and TV sets insides with other junk I want to get rid of (wood shavings, cat litter, etc...)
It will be like you are giving Office Depot a christmas in July present....of cat feces...
Puts me into the holiday mood!
I was thinking that too, cept MS figures that eventually, if they cut Dell off, someone will come to take Dell's place, and they can just sell to them. MS can probably afford a little while of reduced revenues.
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Haven't Japan learned that M$ is invincible everywhere even in the U.S. If our very own DOJ couldn't put up a dent, what makes you think Japan would be any different.
Japan will rabidly defend any Japanese company from a foriegn company if they find that foriegn firm is a threat. It's happened before, it will happen again. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but Japan looks out for #1 first.
I work at an Apple Specialist in SF, CA. We can get dual 1.8 next day and have been able to since the announcement. Why don't you try a local resller or call on your order and have things sped up. You also mentioned you paid good money to wait. I have not heard of anyone actually taking payment without shippment. BTW, it will be worth the wait.
I made mine BTO(Radeon 9600XT, is that causing the holdup?), I can't get it through an Apple reseller because there no Apple resellers within 100 miles who actually has the stuff in stock(my university has iBooks and powerbooks, but they just refer you to Apple's site if you want anything else). I went through Apple's site to get the developer discount, I don't think I can get that at a retailer....
I'm starting to think that a dual Opteron system would probably meet my needs almost as well and be $400 less($500 if I can get them to refund my student dev fee)
You said in your first post that you were waiting for a dual 2GHz, retard.
God I love feeding trolls, here is my first post:
into production when they don't even have enough G5s for the Powermacs and XServes right now. Myself, and a lot of internet posters are very frustrated with the delays in shipping. I ordered a dual g5 2 weeks ago, and 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(anyone have any suggestions for a motherboard?) I paid money for my computer, I expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion. I need it to get work done. It's rediculous to have to wait for 2 weeks to get something that you paid money for. To quoth Cowboy Neal, "I wasn't born an Apple hater, I became one over time" or something along those lines.
So please, since I am so retarded point out to me where I said I was waiting for a 2Ghz machine. I know you probably aren't very bright, and get distracted by pretty numbers like 2, I was using the number 2 as in 2 weeks. God I love trolls.
The profits from each console are also important. I wonder which actualy has the highest profit per unit shipped. Nintendo is kind of a unique case because most of the best selling software on the system is made by Nintendo themselves(Mario, Metroid, Zelda etc). Are there a lot of casual ps2 gamers out there who own a playstation and maybe 3 or 4 games? In that case sony's profit per unit may not be all that high.
I actually ordered a 1.8Ghz, so I'm not sure that your conjecture holds. They seem to be having problems even getting the 1.8Ghzs into large scale production. Plus, I will say it again(in case you didn't read the other threads), I got an Apple Loan, so yeah, basically I am already paying for the computer....
Heh, the problem is I am waiting for a 1.8, not a 2.5. They have been selling the 1.8 for a while, I thought they would have been able to get them out faster.
If you're really in such a hurry, you could lift a finger to try to speed things up. I just went to www.apple.com/store and clicked through the configurator for the 3 featured G5 configs. No changes, just Select->Continue->Continue from the store main page to get to the shopping cart where there's a ship time estimate.
The dual 1.8GHz: 3-5 business days.
The dual 2GHz: 3-5 business days.
The dual 2.5GHz: 4-6 weeks.
And when I ordered mine, it said "5-7 business days"(it was a BTO). I thought it would be shipped in 5-7 business days, it wasn't. The reason I ordered it from Apple instead of a reseller is because a) I got a discount(which without it I wouldn't even have considered a Mac, I love them, but not $2,000 for a stock config 1.8Ghz type of love), and I wanted to upgrade the video card to a 9600, which for only $40 is a pretty good deal.
I'm an idiot, I meant iBook, not iMac.....
I'm doing it on my iMac, but it's not very speedy for what I need it for and the resolution on it sucks for use as a desktop. Right now I am looking at the 20" monitor I bought for the G5(Iiyama, not Apple :P) and it sucks only being able to go up to 1024x768 when my monitor is capable of going to 1600x1200. Yeah, I know there is a hack to make it go higher, but I heard that can cause some major heat probelms. I don't want to be without a computer at all.
Did'ja actually pay money for it? Or did you give them a credit card, which hasn't been charged yet? Apple doesn't normally charge you until they ship.
I got it through an Apple educational loan, so basically as soon as I got the loan I started paying for it. Had I been aware how long it would take to get me the machine, I would have not taken out the loan.
I do bioinformatics programming. I can do it on a PC or a Mac, but I would rather do it on a mac. If however, the mac is going to take a month to ship, I would much rather do it on the Opteron, ie it actually gets here when I need it. Actually, because I got a discount with my mac, the Dual Opteron 242 runs about $400 less. A significant amount.
Ordered June 30th, Original ship date: On or before July 09, now my ship date is on or before July 27......
Just for reference, what were the profit numbers for Gateway, say in the last two or three years? Hint, look below the X axis of the chart...
So Gateway's profits are going back in time? Time to invest in Gateway!
into production when they don't even have enough G5s for the Powermacs and XServes right now. Myself, and a lot of internet posters are very frustrated with the delays in shipping. I ordered a dual g5 2 weeks ago, and 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(anyone have any suggestions for a motherboard?) I paid money for my computer, I expect it to be delivered in a timely fashion. I need it to get work done. It's rediculous to have to wait for 2 weeks to get something that you paid money for.
To quoth Cowboy Neal, "I wasn't born an Apple hater, I became one over time" or something along those lines.
Most annoying slashdot poster?
Saeed al-Sahaf
Kenja
NineNine
nanogator
You forgot: Anonymous Coward, I vote for that one!
heh, I ordered an iBook a while ago(typing from it), yeah, I know they are made in Taiwan. But it hasn't even shipped from there yet, I originally had a shipping date of the 9th, but it got moved back to the 28th. I got a student developer's discount, and I got it BTO, so I couldn't get it from a retailer.
If I don't get an email in an hour telling me it has shipped, I am going to go with a dual opteron. Just easier that way. I'm tired of playing games, I gave them their money, they could give me my computer, I thought that was how this capitalism thing was supposed to work. Experiences like this turn me from Apple fanboy to apple hater real quick.
Why can't Jobs just give ID a couple of G5s to guaranty that an OS X version is released simultaneously?
Probably because he doesn't have any to spare. I oredered one 2 weeks ago(dual 1.8, 9600 XT card just to play doom) and it hasn't even shipped yet, lots of others are having problems too, kinda makes me pissed at Apple....
I can just imagine the papers you would have to fill out
Experiment: "Drop cats repeatedly, observe results for use in robotics..."
See how well PETA would love that one!
The only problem with that solution is that you pretty much have to have a high end G5 to record the stuff. And also, for live broadcasts such as sports, can you just watch instead of recording it?
I went to Best Buy the other day just for kicks, and damn if some of the Toshiba laptops I saw(dunno if it was this one or not) looked like powerbooks, with the wide screen even! Though the screens were rather nice.
Heh, till you are asked to mod the code to do stuff for your university's aerospace dept. That being said, the code on that game is really well written and easy to modify. We added ships with realistic motion, and it was pretty dirt simple!
You don't need a fancy remote...Just get any old wireless (infrared) mouse, hook the dongle up to your PS/2 port, and you're all set.
Heh, he is using a powerbook, powerbooks don't have ps2 ports....
Though your solution does work with USB(probably)
Would they mind if I filled my tower computer cases and TV sets insides with other junk I want to get rid of (wood shavings, cat litter, etc...)
It will be like you are giving Office Depot a christmas in July present....of cat feces...
Puts me into the holiday mood!
On occasion I am forced to run the mac version of IE, how many of these exploits actually affect the mac version(which is rather old at this point)?
I was thinking that too, cept MS figures that eventually, if they cut Dell off, someone will come to take Dell's place, and they can just sell to them. MS can probably afford a little while of reduced revenues.