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Apple Expo - Initial iMac Availability To Be Limited, Sources Say
by , 6:15 AM EDT, August 31st, 2004
PARIS, FRANCE - Apple dealers are being told that flat-panel iMac G5s will be in very limited supply until late-November, early-December. Apple introduced the new iMac today to cheering crowds during the Apple Expo keynote in Paris, France.
Independent dealers say that the flow of new iMacs will be a "trickle" when they initially become available in mid-September. TMO was also told that the 17" model will be most readily available unit in the beginning, and that 20" models will be virtually non-existent when the iMac G5 first ships in mid-September.
Supply constraints should ease across the product line in late-November or early-December.
Dealers were not given specific reason for supply constraints, but were told that Apple will be shipping the new iMacs one at a time from manufacturing facilities in Asia. Apple has similarly turned to air-freight shipping to meet initial demand with other product rollouts in the past.
You can find the iMac G5 product line at the Apple Store. You can find additional details on the iMac at Apple's iMac Web site.
Observer Comments
Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:58 am Subject: Ship time might not be tht bad
I think the long ship times are based on expectations for very high order levels - just like the iPod. I ordered this morning at 6:30 and have a 3-4 week estimated delivery - which Apple might beat.
The key is IF you are going to get one you have to order very fast today as first orders get first shipments. Wait until 3 months of production are sold and you're going to have to wait.
Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:10 pm Subject: kenaustus - Please Update In 4 Weeks
Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:07 am Subject: Video Card
Games are probably enough reason for the home user with a wide variety of interests.
However, Apple is increasingly offloading 2d graphics and video to the graphics card. This started with Quartz extreme, and is being stepped up significantly with Motion, and 10.4's introduction of CoreVideo and CoreImage, both of which use the GPU on the video card to accelerate graphics, and allow real-time video and graphic effects. The Demo Apple showed at WWDC was producing high-quality photoshop filter effects in real time without destroying the original image data, by using the Graphics card.
Of course, that's future tech until Tiger ships, so I have no idea just how hard programs using those features will tax the graphics card in the new iMac G5.
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