Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

GreenBadger

macrumors member
Feb 17, 2008
33
2
Mine was to be delivered Aug 20-27, just changed to Sep 14-21? BOOO! Ordered on Aug 6
3.6 10 core i9, 32 gb ram, 2 tb ssd and radeon 5700 xt
 

jonthegeologist

macrumors member
Feb 8, 2008
90
18
UPS is SO frustrating. For the second day in a row, they’ve lied that they’re delivering. So it looks like it’ll be here tomorrow — Apple’s ETA from 2 weeks back.
 

ZBoater

macrumors G3
Jul 2, 2007
8,498
1,325
Sunny Florida
Placed my order today. i9 10 core, 8GB of RAM, 4TB SSD, 5700XT video, 10gig ethernet. I scored 128GB of RAM for $400 from HyperX (Kingston). Estimated ship September 14-21.
Screen Shot 2020-08-20 at 2.28.14 PM.jpg
Screen Shot 2020-08-20 at 2.30.39 PM.jpg
 
Last edited:

Jack42

macrumors newbie
Apr 8, 2006
10
2
Interesting that you can change anything on an order for the $2299 model and the delivery date is September 2-4 but if you change the storage it pushes the order to September 14-21. It doesn't matter what you change it to 1TB thru 8Tb it still pushes it out to the 14-21.
 
  • Like
Reactions: cubalibre

TonyKL

macrumors newbie
Aug 20, 2008
15
2
London, UK
I received my stock 2020 iMac (with numeric keyboard and touch pad) today but I noticed that there was a double seal tape on the outside brown box, is this normal or has this unit been tampered with / returned?

The seal on the inside iMac box looks good but seeing to replaced tape on the outside box has raised concerns.

FWIW it came from Netherlands, delivered to UK.

What do you think?
 

RAWvJPG

Cancelled
Aug 16, 2020
54
29
I think you shouldn't worry about it. If the iMac looks fine, works fine... just enjoy using it.
 

bhaasie

macrumors newbie
Jun 20, 2010
28
5
So. Central PA
I got the dreaded Exception on UPS. Left dublin IE to Koeln DE on. 08/19/2020 now I have Exception: Package will be forwarded to a UPS Facility in the destination city? What does that mean?
 

torifile

macrumors regular
Aug 10, 2020
158
161
Mine has arrived. It looks like the cardboard box got rained on but it seems to be working fine. Now I cannot for the life of me get safari working with iCloud Keychain. None of my passwords are syncing. I'm going a little crazy trying to figure it out. I hate iCloud syncing issues.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: minik

quagmire

macrumors 604
Apr 19, 2004
6,985
2,492
Everything is all setup. I am seeing about a 35% boost in X-Plane 11 performance over my 2019 iMac with the Vega 48. Got Windows 10 installed on the machine( much easier than last year cause it installed the keyboard and mouse drivers correctly this time.... :) ). I just have to reinstall a few more things on the Windows side and I am back up and running. Just need to wait for iStat Menu's on the MacOS side and Mac Fan Control on the Windows side to update their apps to restore functionality(I don't want to game on the Windows side without the ability to manually control the fan). Happy to see though that idle temps for the 2020 are pretty much the same as the 2019.

Next step is to wipe the 2019 and get it ready to give it to the parents.

Guess it is time to sign off this thread since my journey is complete here.
 

assisterah

macrumors member
Oct 22, 2008
47
30
Everything is all setup. I am seeing about a 35% boost in X-Plane 11 performance over my 2019 iMac with the Vega 48. Got Windows 10 installed on the machine( much easier than last year cause it installed the keyboard and mouse drivers correctly this time.... :) ). I just have to reinstall a few more things on the Windows side and I am back up and running. Just need to wait for iStat Menu's on the MacOS side and Mac Fan Control on the Windows side to update their apps to restore functionality(I don't want to game on the Windows side without the ability to manually control the fan). Happy to see though that idle temps for the 2020 are pretty much the same as the 2019.

Next step is to wipe the 2019 and get it ready to give it to the parents.

Guess it is time to sign off this thread since my journey is complete here.
Congrats! Any comments on idle fan noise before you go?
 

KrazyKanuck

macrumors regular
Aug 8, 2020
137
142
I received my stock 2020 iMac (with numeric keyboard and touch pad) today but I noticed that there was a double seal tape on the outside brown box, is this normal or has this unit been tampered with / returned?

The seal on the inside iMac box looks good but seeing to replaced tape on the outside box has raised concerns.

FWIW it came from Netherlands, delivered to UK.

What do you think?
The iMacs (fully assembled or just the back shells with some internals installed) are shipped from China directly to customers or to Cork for BTO, or to Apple warehouses, etc. The iMacs are shipped from China inside their "show boxes" (the white box with the picture) which are shipped inside the brown boxes. This just saves space for Apple and allows them to reduce packaging. The brown boxes are opened and resealed by Apple, in my case using a strip of packing tape. I wouldn't be concerned, especially if the seal on the show box seems fine.
 
  • Like
Reactions: hoodafoo

torifile

macrumors regular
Aug 10, 2020
158
161
I received my stock 2020 iMac (with numeric keyboard and touch pad) today but I noticed that there was a double seal tape on the outside brown box, is this normal or has this unit been tampered with / returned?

The seal on the inside iMac box looks good but seeing to replaced tape on the outside box has raised concerns.

FWIW it came from Netherlands, delivered to UK.

What do you think?
My cardboard box had been opened and re-taped too. The interior box was fine so I just rolled with it.
IMG_2580.jpeg
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.