bad news for the people hoping for new PowerMacs
According to French website macbidouille, they contacted major distributors of Mac hardware, and they still have HUGE backlogs of material.
Unless they announce it today and ship in a few months, there is very little probabilty that PMs will ship soon
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcon...05-04-15#10803
To make a long thing short: just one of the distributors had 225 G5 2.5 duals in stock worth over 600k euros (about a billion US dollars).
Merde alors...
Unless they announce it today and ship in a few months, there is very little probabilty that PMs will ship soon
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcon...05-04-15#10803
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De gros stocks de G5 et d'iMac - Lionel - 05:52:08 - Réactions
Si Apple doit réellement renouveler sa gamme de G5 et d'imac très bientôt, un problème se posera. Les grossistes ont de très grosses quantités de ces machines.
Un seul d'entre eux a 225 Powermac G5 Dual 2,5 GHz. Le chiffre peut paraître faible, mais il représente plus de 600 000 euros d'immobilisés. Au total, ce sont quelques millions d'euros de machines qui risquent de perdre une partie non négligeable de leur valeur comptable d'un jour Ã* l'autre.
De gros stocks de G5 et d'iMac - Lionel - 05:52:08 - Réactions
Si Apple doit réellement renouveler sa gamme de G5 et d'imac très bientôt, un problème se posera. Les grossistes ont de très grosses quantités de ces machines.
Un seul d'entre eux a 225 Powermac G5 Dual 2,5 GHz. Le chiffre peut paraître faible, mais il représente plus de 600 000 euros d'immobilisés. Au total, ce sont quelques millions d'euros de machines qui risquent de perdre une partie non négligeable de leur valeur comptable d'un jour Ã* l'autre.
To make a long thing short: just one of the distributors had 225 G5 2.5 duals in stock worth over 600k euros (about a billion US dollars).
Merde alors...
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Screed
Originally posted by Bancho
600k Euros is currently worth 768k USD
Actually it's 772,817.18.
1 EUR = 1.28803 USD
1 USD = 0.776380 EUR
Originally posted by Relic
Actually it's 772,817.18.
1 EUR = 1.28803 USD
1 USD = 0.776380 EUR
But rarley does a person get that good of a rate.
Originally posted by aplnub
But rarley does a person get that good of a rate.
Sure you do, ever trade currencies . If you go to BNP Paribas or any other bank for that matter they'll rape you.
Originally posted by ZO
humor is lost upon people sometimes
has to be funny first...
bah, nevermind...I'm just an irritable ass this morning. Damn network troubles...
Originally posted by Bancho
has to be funny first...
bah, nevermind...I'm just an irritable ass this morning. Damn network troubles...
Didn't have your Starbucks fix yet, huh?
Originally posted by the cool gut
What does "macbidouille" mean?
Mac do-it-yourself
Are there any US resellers picking up PMs at a discount? Doubt if they will say.
Thats what many rumor sites do to try and understand if new products are coming
Merde alors... [/B][/QUOTE]
"My daddy just bought a new car...It costs like about a million dollars."(8 yr old me)
Originally posted by ZO
According to French website macbidouille, they contacted major distributors of Mac hardware, and they still have HUGE backlogs of material.
Unless they announce it today and ship in a few months, there is very little probabilty that PMs will ship soon
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcon...05-04-15#10803
To make a long thing short: just one of the distributors had 225 G5 2.5 duals in stock worth over 600k euros (about a billion US dollars).
Merde alors...
The site actually says:
"If APPLE must really renew its range of G5 and imac very soon, a problem will arise. The wholesalers have very large quantities of these machines.
Only one of them has 225 Powermac G5 Dual 2,5 GHz. The figure can appear weak, but it represents more than 600 000 euros of immobilized. On the whole, they are a few million euros of machines which are likely to lose a considerable part of their book value from one day to another."
Now Wholesaler doesn't necessarily mean Retailer / Dealer so therefore if you have say 10 dealers pulling from this stock, it only equates to 20 machines - hardly huge stocks, and not something that cannot take a tumble in price if updated machines are released.
Originally posted by Dovetail
To make a long thing short: just one of the distributors had 225 G5 2.5 duals in stock worth over 600k euros (about a billion US dollars).
Merde alors...
"My daddy just bought a new car...It costs like about a million dollars."(8 yr old me)
I'm sure it was an honest mistake and in no way meant to demean the falling American dollar. Because he knows he would be dragged out to the street by his toes and beaten to a bloody sludge. Yea, yea, ?Freedom Fries? take that Parisian!
This includes all the models of PowerMac. I don't think resellers get price protection if Apple calls 'em "refurbs" but I don't think that big backlog will hold up the release of new models. I've bought 2 refurbs so far and both times the machines showed no evidence of even the slightest usage. YMMV.
I've little doubt that the PMs and iMacs will be refreshed very soon. I also think we'll see PB and iBook refreshes fairly soon.