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Forbes: Apple On Target To Ship All Orders For G5s This Month

by , 8:00 AM EDT, August 11th, 2003

In Forbes' weekly "People to watch" feature, Steve Jobs and Apple are the focus of the top blurb. "People to watch" is Forbes' weekly half gossip round-up/half reporting feature of people and companies that are expected to do something newsworthy. This week, the feature looks at supply issues that Apple has dealt with in the past as it relates to its efforts to deliver the PowerMac G5 that was announced in June. In the article, Forbes cites an Apple spokesperson who says that Apple is on target to ship all orders for G5. From Forbes:

When the company announced the machine, it said shipping would begin in August. Many Apple customers have been holding back on their traditional upgrade cycles for months, partly in anticipation of the G5. And that's just one of the factors impacting sales volume, which has slipped to 771,000 last quarter from 808,000 in the year-ago quarter.

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An Apple spokeswoman says the company remains on target to ship all orders for G5 machines this month.

Some rumors have circulated that Apple might be late with the high-end dual-processor 2 GHz PowerMac G5. This would match Apple's usual pattern of being able to deliver slower units at first, with faster units shipping a week or more afterwards.

There's more information about Apple's supply issues in the past in the full blurb at Forbes' Web site.

The Mac Observer Spin:

We were in the camp of those expecting the top-end G5 units to ship in September -- based strictly on historical trends -- so we find this news from Forbes to indeed be good news. With a unit that is as popular as the PowerMac G5, and indeed as important to the Mac platform as the PowerMac G5, the company being able to meet its shipping "in August" mark is important. Hopefully, "being on target" will end up translating as "we did it!" when all is said and done.

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