Shipped!
Posted September 25th, 2003 @ 10:31am by Erik J. Barzeski
It has shipped! I should have it in two days (does Airborne deliver on Saturdays?). Incidentally, 1 GB PC3200 modules from RAMJet come with little heat sinks clipped onto them (this should explain why I got "only" 512 MB in the config below).
Z07K POWER MAC G5 2.0GHZDP CTO 1 x,xxx.xx With the following configuration:
Processor 065-4227 Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 Memory 065-4356 512MB DDR400 (PC3200) - 2x256 Hard Drive 065-4287 2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm Optical Drive 065-4168 Super Drive (DVD-R/CD-RW) Graphics Support 065-4288 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Fibre Chl PCI 065-4491 None Modem 065-4166 56k V.92 Internal Modem BlueTooth 065-4292 BlueTooth Module Airport 065-4293 Airport Extreme Card Keyboard Language 065-4161 Apple Keyboard & Mouse Mac OS Language 065-4160 Mac OS X Country Kit 065-4159 Country Kit
Now I just have to figure out what the heck I'm going to do with my dual 800 (2x120 GB, 1.5 GB, Zip, SuperDrive). Hmmm. Any ideas?
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 11:31am #
Dedicated Halo server (once it ships)? =)
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 11:53am #
screw you erik, i've got another month before my G5 ships.
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 11:57am #
Sell the zip, the superdrive, and one of the hard drives. Give it only power and ethernet, then stuff it deep into a closet to be the bitch (for distributed building). 🙂
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 12:02pm #
When did you order yours? Did you order via ADC?
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 12:20pm #
I'm going to say "no comment" to your question, Brian, simply because that could cause problems if someone, somewhere, ordered his before or after me and did or didn't get it before or after me. AFAIK, I got it right in line with other people's order dates.
FWIW, my "on or before" date was always 9/30/03. I never had an August ship date.
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 12:29pm #
Congratulations on the new G5 Erik! I would agree the extra box might work well as a distributed build node. You could probably install a game server on it as well. Write some AppleScripts to allow toggling ether service on/off as you need resources.
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 4:42pm #
I'm going to agree with Rudy on this one. Screw you 🙂 On the other hand, I'm going to say screw you to Rudy as well, because I'm not getting a G5. And that sucks!
Someone want to give me money to buy a G5? 😀
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 10:26pm #
Congrats.
But see RangerRick's blog for the likelihood of your '2 days' really being 2 days.
Posted 25 Sep 2003 at 10:26pm #
Cool! At least somebody's getting a 2 gig G5. And no, Airbone does not ship on Saturday unless they paid extra for it. You're gonna have to wait until Monday.
Posted 26 Sep 2003 at 12:44am #
Uh, I'm getting my computer today. As in the next day. Why? Priority Overnight. So shove a sock in your piehole, folks! Neener neener. I'll have it by noon today. That's 11 hours from now, tossers! 🙂
Posted 28 Sep 2003 at 9:40pm #
I've still yet to take the G5 out of its box (been busy, really) since I got it on Friday, but I've now got the...
Posted 28 Sep 2003 at 10:15pm #
You're a lucky, lucky man Erik.