Anybody else out there order a custom configured Dual G5?

[Fahrvergnuugen]

If so, whats your estimated ship date on your order status?

also, when did you place your order


[added order date]

[Solaris]

Dual 2 plus:
2x250GB disks
9800 Pro
23" Cinema HD display
Wolf 3D
Final Cut Express

Total £ 4,534.24 (UK pounds incl 17.5% VAT)

I'll add more RAM from crucial.com/uk

Ordered: 5 Aug
ETA: on or before 10 Oct :(

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by Fahrvergnuugen
If so, whats your estimated ship date on your order status? I did and my estimated shipping date is on or before August 29.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

I guess its first come first serve then....

I placed my order on 08/19/2003


Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 065-4227
512MB DDR400 (PC3200) - 2x256 065-4356
250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm 065-4286
Super Drive (DVD-R/CD-RW) 065-4168
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 065-4288
56k V.92 Internal Modem 065-4166
BlueTooth Module 065-4292
Apple Keyboard & Mouse 065-4161
Mac OS X 065-4160
Country Kit 065-4159

Open

On or before
10/30/2003



23" APPLE CINEMA HD DISPLAY-ZML
Shipped


If I have to wait till November to get my G5 I will go insane.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Originally posted by MisterMe
I did and my estimated shipping date is on or before August 29.

when did you place your order??

[donsullivan]

I place my order for a BTO Dual 2GHzs on 6/23/03 and the current ship date is on or before 09/02/03.

[Zammy-Sam]

*jealous on everyone who posted in here*

[MacFeel]

Solaris!

How can you get all that for under £5000?
I tried to put togeather a machine with 2x250 and the top 9800 radeon card.

G5 with 2Gb Ram
2x250 HD
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb Ram
No modem
No bluetooth
No Airport
No extras at all!

51,160,00 SEK(Swedish Kronas)!
39,765,00 SEK with 512 MB Ram!

23" Cinema Display

21,995,00 SEK!


This is over 61,000 SEK! for the G5 with 512 MB Ram and 23"
display!(must be way over £5000)

73,155 SEK with G5 2 Gb Ram and 23" display!

All this is with 25% tax that we have in this shitty country :(

How can you get all that for under 5000?

M

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by Fahrvergnuugen
when did you place your order?? 07/06/2003

[Mills]

Originally posted by MacFeel
Solaris!

How can you get all that for under £5000?
I tried to put togeather a machine with 2x250 and the top 9800 radeon card.

G5 with 2Gb Ram
2x250 HD
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb Ram
No modem
No bluetooth
No Airport
No extras at all!

51,160,00 SEK(Swedish Kronas)!
39,765,00 SEK with 512 MB Ram!

23" Cinema Display

21,995,00 SEK!


This is over 61,000 SEK! for the G5 with 512 MB Ram and 23"
display!(must be way over £5000)

73,155 SEK with G5 2 Gb Ram and 23" display!

All this is with 25% tax that we have in this shitty country :(

How can you get all that for under 5000?

M


www.apple.com/ukstore

try yourself, works out right

[Arden]

[Drool] Damn you all money-laden lucky bastards!

I ordered my own dual G5: the air version. It's completely made of air, it's free, there's no shipping time, and you don't have to place an order. :sad:

Edit: Changed :'s to []'s

[Fahrvergnuugen]

I wonder how accurate apple's estimated ship dates are... "on or before 10/30/2003" is kinda vauge....
I've got my HD CD now, but I can't use it because my G4 doesn't have an ADC connector...and its killing me. Do I drop the 100 bucks on an ADC adapter so I can use the display in the mean time? hmmmm....

[Arden]

It's much less vague than something like "Next year," or "When it's done." That means before Halloween (for those who recognize the holiday).

[mdnky]

08.01.2003

Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------
• Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
• 1GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 2x512
• 250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
• ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
• Bluetooth Module
• 56k V.92 internal modem
• SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
• Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
• Mac OS X - U.S. English
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total: $3,724.00 (OUCH!)

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Originally posted by mdnky
08.01.2003
Total: $3,724.00 (OUCH!)

don't order extra ram from apple. the cost to upgrade from 512mb - 1GB costs more than if you just buy 1GB from crucial [which is what I'm doing].

I usually do the same with hard disks, but in this case the G5 can only hold 2 drives, so I got the 250GB drive instead of the smaller one.

[jocknerd]

Two questions:

1. Would I be better off getting a larger hard drive for video editing or should I go for two separate drives instead? I know Premiere on the PC always recommended two separate drives. One would be the scratch drive for editing.

2. If I do get the second drive, are they proprietary or can I get a S-ATA drive from somewhere like newegg and save some serious money?

[Arden]

Get one large drive, 120 GB or more (you can get these in the neighborhood of $100 now! Crazy...), and partition it if you want 2 volumes. You'll save money this way.

I maxed out the dual G5 on Apple's site for a grand total of over $15,000... of course, a third of that is RAM and another third is dual 23" monitors.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

partitioning a single drive will get you nothing except two separate volumes.

the only reason you would want another drive would be to have it on a separate bus so that the throughput to the drive can be higher.

This really doesn't matter much though, I have had zero problems with performance when running the system drive as the scratch disk.

regardless, you can only put two drives in a G5 so I would recommend getting the largest drive you can afford.

[jmo]

Apple says they're going to ship mine on or before 08/29/03. I ordered a Dual 2GHz with 1GB o' RAM on 07/02/03.

And still not one word about Apple actually shiping dualies.

[theed]

get the big drive. The performance differences will be fairly small on those large files with decent drives, and the future expandability may be critical. Unless you intend to launch apps all the time while doing video editing...