| Apple last week began notifying customers of further shipment delays for its dual-2.5GHz Power Mac G5. In a note sent late last week to customers, Apple's online store said that demand for the high-end G5 systems had caused a backlog of orders, preventing the company from fulfilling some of them until the end of the month. One MacNN reader notes that his dual-2.5GHz Power Mac G5 was originally expected to ship on July 30th, but was subsequently delayed until August 20th and then delayed (again) for a second time. "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 30th." Separately, Apple has also delayed shipments of Power Mac G5s built with the high-end NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card. In a separate note to customers, Apple said it would substitute an ATI Radeon 9600 XT w/128MB SDRAM card and ship the system in early September. Apple said that it would also offer these customers an additional NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card Stand-Alone Kit by September 17. However, customers who chose to wait will recieve their custom-built Power Macs with the Nvidia card in mid-September. The Nvidia card is required for driving Apple's large 30-inch flat-panel Apple Cinema display.
In the company's conference call last month, Apple said that IBM's G5 manufacturing problems was the cause of the delay in in the G5 iMac launch, which now is rumored to debut at the end of the month. Last week two research analyst firms warned of continued G5 processor shortages.
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