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For those who ordered the ATI 4850....
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This is outstanding! Admittedly we won't see these 30-40% gains in all games, but I will personally be thrilled if we see a 5% performance improvement in some applications and other ones are substantially better. ATI has gained a lot of market share in the GPU space with the introduction of the 4800 series parts, so I think we will see more games in the next 12-18 months that are optimized for the Radeon family of cards!
Been there--done that. They have no answers and can only assure that the orders are going out in the order received.
Because there is one section, labelled PCI cards. There isn't a section labelled PCI-E cards, and therefore the PCI cards section is the next best section to find them.
Don't nitpick what isn't there, I know PCI-E cards are different technology. Take the issue up with Apple.
Im sorry but What the f*ck is that?
We are still waiting and no any changes our order status. Im really piss off...
I'm starting to feel the same way.
Hi,
I received mine also today. I am writing on it
Configuration:
2.93GHZ INTEL CORE 2 DUO
4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM-2X2GB
ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
640GB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
APPLE MIGHTY MOUSE
APPLE REMOTE
WIRED KYBD & USER'S GUIDE-ZL
COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 24-DEU
I am in Germany and ordered it 23 March
I hope all you waiting out there receive yours soon
I received mine also today. I am writing on it
Configuration:
2.93GHZ INTEL CORE 2 DUO
4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM-2X2GB
ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
640GB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
APPLE MIGHTY MOUSE
APPLE REMOTE
WIRED KYBD & USER'S GUIDE-ZL
COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 24-DEU
I am in Germany and ordered it 23 March
I hope all you waiting out there receive yours soon
I guess in my case, the above meant...SURPRISE! as when I arrived back from lunch, my iMac was sitting in my office at work :-D YAY
Orderd on Launch day, and shipped to Fredericton NB Canada, in case anyone was wondering.
Just a thought, the poeple who are ordering late and receiving their shipments early -- are they ordering BTOs or standard configs? Mine is still not shipped, not prepared, nothing, (ordered Mar.3), but it is cusomized. Wondering if there is a connection.
They have to BTO's for them to have the ATI Card, right? Its not standard on any of the configs I thought.
i've been following this thread for a while, but this is my first time posting here...i'm waiting on a 2.93 ghz with the radeon 4850 card...ordered it on march 21st and ship date still says april 27th....i know this is a lot later than people who ordered right around launch but listen to this crap
i was telling my buddy at work about how i was getting a new mac and all that...he's never had a mac...decided finally to give it a shot, so he ordered the same configuration as me ON APRIL 2nd ...as you guys know, the wait time on the store changed to 7-10 days around that time...he told me his estimated ship was april 14th and i was thinking you've got to be kidding me, i ordered 2 weeks before you, and you're getting yours 2 weeks before me...sure enough, he just came to tell me he received his email from the apple store with a tracking number...i didn't believe him, so he showed me his order status....called apple again today and they assured me they were shipping them in first come first serve order, even though i told them about my friend getting his very early....
needless to say, i am getting very ticked off at apple ATM
i was telling my buddy at work about how i was getting a new mac and all that...he's never had a mac...decided finally to give it a shot, so he ordered the same configuration as me ON APRIL 2nd ...as you guys know, the wait time on the store changed to 7-10 days around that time...he told me his estimated ship was april 14th and i was thinking you've got to be kidding me, i ordered 2 weeks before you, and you're getting yours 2 weeks before me...sure enough, he just came to tell me he received his email from the apple store with a tracking number...i didn't believe him, so he showed me his order status....called apple again today and they assured me they were shipping them in first come first serve order, even though i told them about my friend getting his very early....
needless to say, i am getting very ticked off at apple ATM
Hi,
I received mine also today. I am writing on it
Configuration:
2.93GHZ INTEL CORE 2 DUO
4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM-2X2GB
ATI RADEON HD 4850 512MB
640GB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
APPLE MIGHTY MOUSE
APPLE REMOTE
WIRED KYBD & USER'S GUIDE-ZL
COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 24-DEU
I am in Germany and ordered it 23 March
I hope all you waiting out there receive yours soon
this is all horse ****!!!! im so disappointed in the way apple shipped the imacs out... congrats u got yours but i guess it doesnt pay off to buy first!!!!
I'm pretty sure that country code DEU is Germany (Deutchland) and we've already seen that folks in countries outside of North America seem to be getting theirs faster at the moment. I did call Apple on my order today and they were willing to bump me up to overnight shipping at no charge, which will improve the odds I will be able to take receipt of the machine before I make an out of town trip at the end of the month.
ya i know but its still garbage... they should have to wait the 40+ days everyone else has waited before they get theirs.... hopefully mine will be here in the next day or two... but still upset that ppl who just recently ordered got theirs first...
Annoyed
I am in Canada, ordered my 3.06 on Mar 3 and then changed the keyboard on Mar 10. (I dont know if this puts me at the bottom of the pile or not) and still no shipping. I just got off the phone with Apple and had a bunch of smoke blown up a certain part of my body after I told him I was annoyed that people who ordered theirs 2 weeks ago have theirs already. He said that this is the first he had heard about it and "would look into it". I told him I was not satisfied with his assistance today and then he thanked me for that information as well.
I am in Canada, ordered my 3.06 on Mar 3 and then changed the keyboard on Mar 10. (I dont know if this puts me at the bottom of the pile or not) and still no shipping. I just got off the phone with Apple and had a bunch of smoke blown up a certain part of my body after I told him I was annoyed that people who ordered theirs 2 weeks ago have theirs already. He said that this is the first he had heard about it and "would look into it". I told him I was not satisfied with his assistance today and then he thanked me for that information as well.
He's a guy working in a call center for $8 an hour. What exactly do you expect him to do, go to the factory and investigate? If you are so displeased then you should send written letters to execs at Apple, they are the only ones that can do anything about it.
Right! An email usually won't work. Take the time to write. Probably won't do any good but your chances are better.
I've only emailed ONE exec that went anywhere. Ever heard of MagicJack? I had the CEO personally contact me to discuss an issue. He was very nice and made it worth my while. Of course, this was when his company was youger...probably too big to do that kind of service now.
I don't think people outside North America are getting them faster, I ordered the 3.06GHz with the 4850 on March 3 in the Netherlands and my status still hasn't changed.
4850 mobility from Imac has this clocks , core/memory - 500/850 (mutiple x2 to get effective memory speed)
4870 from macpro has clocks - 750/850 (multiple x4 to get effective memory speed)
120gt has 3.5 times less execution units than 8800gt, strange results.
I would use furmark in crossover office as gpu benchmark, it uses opengl.
Is Futuremark available for Mac? All of Barefeats testing as far as I know is done under OS X. He doesn't test performance under XP or Vista Bootcamp.