Delivery time?

[BlackDan]

I urgently need a BTO Powermac G5. My local supllier says it will take me anything from 3 to 6 weeks to get the machine. The Apple website says 5-7 days.

In my experience the apple store changes it's delivery dates sometimes AFTER you have ordered it, so I was wondering if any of you recently ordered a BTO dual G5 with 23" Cinema Display and how long you had to wait for delivery. (This might be different from country to country I suppose, so if you're from Belgium that would be the best reference)

The machine I need is a dual 2Ghz, the BTO includes only basic RAM upgrade (2Gb) and video upgrade (256MB).

Please share your recent experiences...

Thanks in advance
Danny

 

[MRU]

Apple site is usually acurate in terms of how long before it ships. However after it ships is anybodys guess.

G5's ship from Ireland, so I can't imagine it would take too long to get to you via courier.

 

[Bear]

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The machine I need is a dual 2Ghz, the BTO includes only basic RAM upgrade (2Gb) and video upgrade (256MB).

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Machines usually ship on time to Apple's quote. Remember your local store is adding time for it to be shipped to them and such.

A suggestion might be for you to get a 2.3 standard config (which gets you a bigger disk and the 256MB 6600) and then add 2 GBs of memory (giving you 2.5 total) this might get you a system off the shelf basically.

 

[alien]

4 weeks and counting...

I've been waiting about a month and have almost the same config.

 

[BlackDan]

Machines usually ship on time to Apple's quote. Remember your local store is adding time for it to be shipped to them and such.

A suggestion might be for you to get a 2.3 standard config (which gets you a bigger disk and the 256MB 6600) and then add 2 GBs of memory (giving you 2.5 total) this might get you a system off the shelf basically.

That is indeed an option, though at a higher cost....