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New i7 2.93Ghz Owners Thread

Yiha, after reading the benchmarks i finally decided to order mine. I get it within 4-8 days and hopefully without a yellow screen :<
Been playing with a 2.5 year old macbook pro so the upgrade will be ace.
 
fed ex tracking delays (US)

Is anyone else experiencing delays from the fed ex tracking system? I haven't gotten an update since friday, when I was notified my iMac departed Sacramento, CA
 
I will soon get mine as well! Ordered it yesterday, with estimated delivery at 9-12. august! Can't wait :(

2.93GHZ QUAD-CORE INTELCORE I7
4GB 1333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM - 2X2GB
1TB SERIAL ATA DRIVE+256GB SSD
ATI RADEON HD 5750 1GB GDDR5
8X DOUBLE-LAYER SUPERDRIVE
MAGIC MOUSE+MAGIC TRACKPAD-Z
APPLE BATTERY CHARGER-INT
APPLE REMOTE
WL KB & USER'S GUIDE-DNK
COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 27-INCH-DNK
 
Not happy with these estimated delivery dates.
Another 10 Days of torture ahead of me.

10,000+ benchmark score. Wow!
My current pc can't hit 4,000.
 
this is really tempting me to upgrade..

currently have a 2008 imac 2.8ghz with 4gb ram...

mainly use it for iLife apps / photoshop and web stuff...

would the i7 make a drastic improvement to my iLife? (iMovie is the bearbug at the moment with slow rendering and exporting and conversion)...

what do you guys think?
 
Mine is coming today or tomorrow. I ordered 16GB of Corsair Ram for $1k too. :D

BTW, me and a friend are considering doing a project to get BD playback on Mac OSX AND, try to get image capture from the display port.
 
Hi all, took the plunge and ordered an i7 27"er the day after release.

im in the UK and ordered via the online store, only thing i changed was the CPU, no additional RAM or SSD's etc.

unfortunately i'm very impatient, especially when my estimated delivery is 6th of Aug.

i got a free ipod with mine as im a student

i have a question though, the USA apple store shows my order status as shipped (like the UK one) but lists 2 tracking numbers, non of which work :( according to the site my imac has shipped via Kuhene and Nagel (i assume by boat judging by the ETA) but the number they provide to track that shipment cannot be used on their site, should i be worried?

im getting this imac to play starcraft 2 on windows 7 bootcamp as my current 2008 imac has trouble with mediums and reading the other posts i should get a decent bump in performance and visuals :)
 
Flea24 said:
Hi all, took the plunge and ordered an i7 27"er the day after release.

im in the UK and ordered via the online store, only thing i changed was the CPU, no additional RAM or SSD's etc.

unfortunately i'm very impatient, especially when my estimated delivery is 6th of Aug.

i got a free ipod with mine as im a student

i have a question though, the USA apple store shows my order status as shipped (like the UK one) but lists 2 tracking numbers, non of which work :( according to the site my imac has shipped via Kuhene and Nagel (i assume by boat judging by the ETA) but the number they provide to track that shipment cannot be used on their site, should i be worried?

im getting this imac to play starcraft 2 on windows 7 bootcamp as my current 2008 imac has trouble with mediums and reading the other posts i should get a decent bump in performance and visuals :)
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I've got the exact same configuration as you, ordered pretty much the same day and have the same estimated delivery time of 6th. My order says it has been shipped, but don't worry about the two tracking numbers yet as they won't work with UPS or TNT who Apple use to ship with in the UK. The orders get sent to the UK from wherever they are (Ireland, Czech Republic or China) and once they land in the UK, then they get assigned a carrier tracking number. These should be released to us either on Wednesday or Thursday.....be patient, but like you I'm finding it hard to be so!! :D
 
Just for other folks worried about their incoming machines.

I ordered 2 27" I7's with SSD's

Both of my machines arrived saturday, and neither of them have Yellow screens, dog whistle sound from brightness adjustment, or gray banding.

So while there are a lot of people posting that lots of problems still exist, it is entirely possible to get perfect machines, the first time around.
 
thank god for that. im just to excited i want to know where it is.

im pleased yours was ok, just got afraid about the posts with yellow screens.

so is this long numerical tracking number is useless?
 
Flea24 said:
thank god for that. im just to excited i want to know where it is.

im pleased yours was ok, just got afraid about the posts with yellow screens.

so is this long numerical tracking number is useless?
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Pretty much, for example a UPS tracking number usually starts with 1Z.....but the shipping status page will give you that once the courier is assigned, either TNT or UPS
 
im praying for a day early on the delivery, im at work all weekend so wont have much time to play.

cant wait to unbox and plug it in, it sounds as if its truly epic in size.

shame theres such a long wait. pleased i didn't get the printer though

as for tracking, thats a shame, its usually the highlight of my checking the progress of my parcel

tell us whats it like and perhaps a pic of that gorgeous screen to rub it in maybe?
 
Finally got mine last night....the thing is a total beast! Imported 5000+ photos into Aperture and 10000+ songs into iTunes while playing Starcraft 2 on Ultra settings at full resolution. Didn't notice any slow down at all!
 
xraydoc said:
Just pulled the trigger, not 20 minutes ago, on a 27" core i7 iMac with the 2TB HD plus the 256GB SSD. Also ordered it with 8GB of RAM from the factory. I know it's cheaper to add it myself, but my company is paying for it (and I mean my company), so I'm not too concerned about the price difference.

Delivers sometime between Aug 5 - 10. I really hope it's the 5th or 6th...

Can't wait!

This will actually be the first iMac I've ever owned. Up to this point, they've all been towers (two PowerComputing towers, a blue & white G3, two different G4 towers, two G5 towers and my current Mac Pro).

Looking forward to a clean desk and silent operation.

Oh, and that GeekBench score posted above... the 9882... My '06 Mac Pro scores only 5300. Yikes!!
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Ah, the Power Computing days. :D Probably getting an i7 27" to replace my long in the tooth G5 tower. Ditching my old Viewsonic CRT and using my DELL 2005FPW as the secondary display. I am thinking of getting a KVM switch to toggle between the iMac and my MBP.

The G5 will probably get it's drive wiped eventually, get some cheaper HDs in it and I can use it for an office server or leave it as a computer for the kids.
 
Mine will be arriving August 6th - 12th!!! Hoping it will be on the 6th!!! Upgrading from a G5 - a very NICE upgrade :D:D
 
anxiously waiting!

I've been up since 7am my time waiting for the UPS delivery man with my New 2010 iMac i7!!! It is out for delivery. This will be my first iMac, i'm so excited!!
 
Dwhite78 said:
Just for other folks worried about their incoming machines.

Both of my machines arrived saturday, and neither of them have Yellow screens, dog whistle sound from brightness adjustment, or gray banding.
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Wait a sec.. you do NOT have gray banding? You are the first person ever to say so, thats why i have to ask again. It would be absolutely awesome if Apple would get better with this, and if there really are devices without it out there, then my hope gained a lot :)

I've seen endless devices of the old models, and they ALL had it...
 
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