Let's share Mac Pro ship dates
I got it with the X1900 XT, which probably has to do with my ship date of September 16th. 
Eh well, it'll be great when I get it:
\t Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
\t 1GB (2 x 512MB) \t065-6357
\t ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)
\t 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
\t 1 x SuperDrive
\t Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Share your ship date.
Eh well, it'll be great when I get it:
\t Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
\t 1GB (2 x 512MB) \t065-6357
\t ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)
\t 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
\t 1 x SuperDrive
\t Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Share your ship date.
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I got it with the X1900 XT, which probably has to do with my ship date of September 16th.
Eh well, it'll be great when I get it.
Share your ship date.
Will be ordering my 'soon', so I don't have a ship date yet. Hope to get the greenlight from the wife tonight or tomorrow.
It looks like it's the X1900 and the Airport options that are pushing it from 1-3 days to 3-5 weeks. Also, changing the default 2.6 config to 3.0 changes it from 1-3 days to 3-5 days.
I think the X1900 XT pushes it back more than any other option. I hope we don't end up with the Geforce 6800 debacle of yesteryear where people got their Power Macs in the middle of October because of it.
Dumb question -- does Apple charge your card when the order is placed, or do they authorize the card when the order is placed and charge it once it ships?
I'm guessing they charge as soon as we click 'submit'...
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With the following configuration:
Processor 0656352 2.66 GHz Quad Xeon
Memory 0656358 2GB 667 DDR2 FB DIMM ECC4x512
Graphics Card 0656410 NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB
Hard Drive Bay1 0656367 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
Hard Drive Bay2 0656745 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
Hard Drive Bay3 0656743 None
Hard Drive Bay4 0656744 None
Optical Drive 0656251 16x SuperDrive DL
Wireless Option 0656725 Airprt Extrm and BT 2.0EDR
Modem 0656455 None
Fibre Chl Card 0656285 None
Keyboard Language 0656280 Apple Kybd and Wrls Mgty Ms
Mac SVR OS Language 0655988 None
Apple Software Applications 0656419 None
Mac OS Language 0656245 Mac OS X
Country Kit 0656244 Country Kit
Estimated Shipped By:
SEP 05, 2006
Estimated Delivered By:
SEP 06, 2006
If it's not the law it's good business practice, especially with such long ship dates.
I have had Amazon charge my card 4 days before shipping, but it was under $50, so it wouldnt have a risk of maxing out the card if it hit the wrong day of the month...unlike a $2500+ computer.
Estimated ship: August 15th. Estimated delivery: August 22nd.
I skipped the Radeon and the Airport because they ridiculously delayed the shipping. (I suppose I can order those later, in particular the Radeon, hopefully after a price drop.) I took a look at NewEgg's memory prices on FB-DIMMs and decided that it wouldn't be long before someone came out with Mac Pro style memory (with the heatsinks) for a good deal less than Apple.
Has anyone else looked at the pricing for the PC version of that Radeon?
Nope, the don't charge your card until it ships, just like everyone else. I think it may be the law. I'm not sure on that though.
Varies from state to state. In Florida, you cannot charge someone before you ship. However, in Georgia (I think it was), you can. I found this out once during a bout of "online ordering hell". However, I think most "big" companies do not charge until they ship.
Has anyone else looked at the pricing for the PC version of that Radeon?
Compared to their previous racketeering, it is a FAIR PRICE.
The 7300GT is worth about $75, and Apple charges $350, so it's $425 for Apple's X1900 XT.
Depending on the OEM, the X1900 XT for the PC costs from $375 to $450, so I'd say that we aren't getting royally screwed up the ass this time around, compared to their $550-odd 7800GT they had for the Powermac G5.
I got it with the X1900 XT, which probably has to do with my ship date of September 16th.
Eh well, it'll be great when I get it:
\t Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
\t 1GB (2 x 512MB) \t065-6357
\t ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)
\t 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
\t 1 x SuperDrive
\t Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Share your ship date.
I've got the same config, so mine has an estimated arrival by Sept 21st. Hopefully these things come early.
Although, my 23" HD Cinema just shipped today. Wahoo!
Yeah, I'm hoping they will, I hope Apple overestimates.
Well I'm still trying to figure out what the delay is, if the ATIs just arent ready yet or what. I mean, I think the ATI x1900 XTs have been out for some time now so I don't know what the old up is.
I got it with the X1900 XT, which probably has to do with my ship date of September 16th.
Eh well, it'll be great when I get it:
\t Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
\t 1GB (2 x 512MB) \t065-6357
\t ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB (2 x dual-link DVI)
\t 250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
\t 1 x SuperDrive
\t Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Share your ship date.
I ordered on 8/8 only upgrade was 3.0Ghz, 2 super drives, and bluetooth 2.0+EDR and airport which pushed my shipping date to 9/7 - i didnt change the video card cause i have a quad with the Quadro FX4500 and gonna swap it out - then put quad up for sale with the 7300GT and 6.5 g ram
i didnt change the video card cause i have a quad with the Quadro FX4500 and gonna swap it out - then put quad up for sale with the 7300GT and 6.5 g ram
Sorry to rain on your parade, but most seem to think that any card from a G5, even the PCI-e ones are not EFI compliant, and so won't work in a Mac Pro.
David
Well I'm still trying to figure out what the delay is, if the ATIs just arent ready yet or what. I mean, I think the ATI x1900 XTs have been out for some time now so I don't know what the old up is.
I think they just have to go through and flash bunches of them to work with EFI.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but most seem to think that any card from a G5, even the PCI-e ones are not EFI compliant, and so won't work in a Mac Pro.
David
Man, I have to feel for him... buying a $1600 card twice because of a certain arrangement of magnetized parts, OUCH.
estimated delivery date: 8/16
Flash back to 7 years ago. Remember the launch of the G4 back in August of 1999? People went crazy waiting for those Macs. These boards had threads over 100 pages long about shipping delays and lots of people that ordered on the day of the annoucement didn't get their machines until November.
Apple also had to speed dump the G4s from 400 MHz, 450 MHz, and 500 MHz down to 350 MHz, 400 MHz, and 450 MHz with no change in price. Also thrown in there was the whole "Yikes!" vs. "Sawtooth" issue. Some people who ordered were getting G3 style motherboards with no AGP while others were getting newer motherboards with 2x AGP. It didn't help that weeks after people first started to get their new G4s that Apple phased out the "Yikes!" style motherboards. The early adopters who had waited 3+ months for their Macs saw their value plummet just weeks after finally getting it.