HD For Indies

UPDATE Saturday, July 31, 2004 - Apple flip flopped, emailing many (not all) customers that their units will ship by the 2nd (Monday).

AppleInsider has this report on delays of dual 2.5 GHz G5s.

From their article, several customers received this email:

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To Our Valued Apple Customer:

Thank you for ordering the new Dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5!

The demand for this item has been incredible. We are shipping them as quickly as possible, but cannot meet the ship date we previously estimated for you. We now expect to ship your Power Mac on or before August 20th.

Please rest assured that we fulfill all orders in the order they are received.
If we do not hear from you prior to shipment, we will assume the revised date is acceptable, and will ship your order. We will notify you if there are any changes to the revised ship date.

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Mike's Comments: Well....par for the course. I spoke with an inside source today that mentioned that the liquid cooling was leaking (or was it condensing water? Unclear.) on the processors. Um, that would be BAD.

So it's all still in the works...waterworks as the case may be.

Such is life...but I read somewhere that the Rev B dual 2.0 GHz are even quieter than the Rev A's (like I have).

If you need a machine in the near future for HD, I'd highly recommend the dual 2.0 GHz. It'll do what you need. Actual project processing will only be 15% or so faster in real world results (overall speed, don't forget, relies on bus speed, RAM speed, various cyclic latencies, hard drive speed, etc. etc. etc.)