On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 04:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:37 PM -0400 09/21/2003, Derf wrote:http://www.macminute.com/2003/09/20/g5cluster
http://www.chaosmint.com/mac/techclusterphotos/
heh. Maybe that explains why the Apple Store here didn't have a PowerMac G5 when I visited...
I know this is a joke, but it's getting repeated over and over.
Apple had *hundreds of thousands* of pre-orders for G5's, and a large chunk, perhaps a majority, were for the dual 2Ghz unit. An order for 1100 systems did NOT cause shipping the dual 2Ghz late.
(It did, of course, mean they got to the head of the line for the new systems, though..oddly enough 2+ million dollar orders will do that for a customer....)
The delay was problems IBM had getting the 2Ghz part ramped up. The G5 chips are being built in a brand new fab...it is the nature of chip making that every fabrication plant for chips like CPU's is slightly different, and all have teething problems. These show up in the maximum number of top end chips you can make. It gets better as the fabrication plant 'warms up'.
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