Apple new promos from now till June 26th
new G5+23" Display promo
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Im...t_savings.html
old RAM promo was also extended to June 26th
that's 2 days before WWDC
check the apple store
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Im...t_savings.html
old RAM promo was also extended to June 26th
that's 2 days before WWDC
check the apple store
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No new hardware for almost 6 months of the year.
iPod must be doing well.
If we don't see hardware updates till late June, that would mean the Powermac will go 2 months short of a year without being upgraded and the iMac will go 9 months unchanged.
Arn't 2.0-2.4 G5s ready? What the hell is Apple doing? It really doesn't make sense to let sales fall and then jump from 2 Ghz to 3 Ghz.
Or is Apple doing this to play with us???
This promo is to move monitors (hence the specification), not an indication of when/if new G5s will be announced. Same for the RAM promotion ("single or dual processor G5s").
I'm betting Apple is going to pull a major shift to G5s...if not this summer than soon after. I'm betting they want to get the towers up to 3GHz/90nm to allow 1.6 GHz iMacs and such. The fact that the iMac/eMac/iBook/Powerbook lines are still on G4 is probably eating away at Jobs. Those chips don't have much life in them. Granted....there's the new 1.5 MHz ones...but I'm betting those will power the iBook line for the next year. The G5s are coming. Jobs wants to try and get away from Moto as soon as possible.....he's just buying time for a large enough gap between the G5 speeds.
So anyone interested in the deal could probably buy from Amazon, who's currently discounting both PowerMacs(between $80-$130 off depending on model) and the 23" Cinema Display ($120 off)... combined with a discount for buying both togther ($100 for 1.6 or Dual 1.8 with 23", $200 for Dual 2.0 with 23"), then the $500 MIR from Apple.
About $70 shipping costs if you buy both, but still not too shabby.
Originally posted by the dead parot
...I'm betting they want to get the towers up to 3GHz/90nm to allow 1.6 GHz iMacs and such. The fact that the iMac/eMac/iBook/Powerbook lines are still on G4 is probably eating away at Jobs. Those chips don't have much life in them. Granted....there's the new 1.5 MHz ones...but I'm betting those will power the iBook line for the next year. The G5s are coming. Jobs wants to try and get away from Moto as soon as possible.....he's just buying time for a large enough gap between the G5 speeds.
I've said this before, and it has been said by others as well, to bring the iMac back to being on par with the original iMac it needs to have a processor in the high end model that is as fast or faster than the low end PowerMac. Today that would be a 1.6 Ghz G4 or G5, when the next models are released that would be in the neighborhood of 2 Ghz. Until Apple is able to to that and get the price back below $1,000 the iMac will not regain the sales figures and praise that the original iMac had.
I wish they would.
I mean what is so hard about declaring you can't revise the PowerMac's for a few more months and either drop them a few hundred dollars or just double all the non-processor specs.
Nick
Originally posted by dferigmu
Is it just me or is Apple being really retarded here?
It's not you. If the new policy is huge updates once a year with nothing in between, we're going to see exactly what happened last year: a surge of demand resulting in long shipping delays, followed by lackluster sales for the rest of the year.
Originally posted by 3.1416
It's not you. If the new policy is huge updates once a year with nothing in between, we're going to see exactly what happened last year: a surge of demand resulting in long shipping delays, followed by lackluster sales for the rest of the year.
There are many stores in retail, that do 90% of sales at Christmas time.
Originally posted by scottiB:
This promo is to move monitors (hence the specification), not an indication of when/if new G5s will be announced. Same for the RAM promotion ("single or dual processor G5s").
Has Apple ever refreshed their PowerMac line in the middle of a promotion?
If not, this doesn't look good... I hope I'm wrong but I'm more than a little sceptical that Apple would move from a 2 Ghz machine to a 3 Ghz machine in one giant leap. It's just too big a move when they could clearly milk a 2 - 2.5 update for a quarter or two. I hate to say it, but I think moving straight to 3 Ghz is more wishful thinking than anything else.
Originally posted by MacJedai:Does anyone else think that Apple may be delaying the G5 Rev B to incorporate Hyper Transport 2 in to their MB.
If they do that I hope they implement PCI Express as well...
C.
Oh yea, the extending of the promos is not cool at all. Or maybe Steve's just trying to throw us off
Originally posted by Odedh
new G5+23" Display promo
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Im...t_savings.html
old RAM promo was also extended to June 26th
that's 2 days before WWDC
check the apple store
thats exciting but i will never be able to afford any of them.... bummer!
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