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08/29/2003, 2:10am, EDT
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Apple delays G5 shipments to late September
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Several MacNN readers note that Apple has delayed its dual-2GHz Power Mac G5 shipments from the original "end of August" ship date: "I ordered my dual 2.0GHz G5 seconds after it became available after it became available on the Apple store. Up until about 5:00pm today (8/28) it was listed with an estimated ship date of Aug. 29. Tonight, I checked the site and they've given a new estimated ship date of September 26! Quite a change for one day!" New orders at the Apple Store have an estimated ship date of "4-6 weeks". Update: One reader says his ship date was changed back to on or before August 29th without any explanation: "Order status started out today as 'on or before (OOB) 8.29.03', then late evening date changed to 'OOB 9.26.03' and then after 12 AM PST order status changed back to 'OOB 8.29.03'! Order placed minutes after APPLE STORE updated for G5 orders."
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i'm going to go turn on cnn, and there damn well better be a chip factory burning to the f*ing ground.
sincerely,
me.
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After putting a deposit he told me that the waiting list was long and i would have to wait at least over 3 months from now. THATS a dam long time!
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What did you expect? Apple to ship 100.000 G5's in 3 days?
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This leaves me wondering about how Apple is handeling his customers ? Why on Earth say the G5 will be shipping end of August if this isn't true for most of the people who intend to or have ordered new Power Macs ? This is bad PR I think. I sincerely wish there was some competition among Macintosh computers. Sure Mac clones did canibalize Apple's sales but at least, Apple had to react to keep its customers. I feel like Mac users are Steve Jobs's little puppets. I personally think Steve Jobs has done his work which was to bring Apple back on track. As far as saying he should remain in power at Apple, I'm not too sure. Apple should have known, Apple was quite aware that the demand for a new Power Macintosh the performances of which would outbeat those of the PCs was enormous and that as soon as the G5 would have been announced, orders would come rushing in. Apple has clearly shown it was unable to foresee and to react in time. Even the G4 orders on the Apple Store are stuck ! This is so unworthy of a company like Apple.
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