The Official "I'm waiting for my new iMac to arrive" thread

[killuminati]

Yay, I finally got my iMac today! I went and picked it up because it wasn't supposed to be shipped till monday. A huge order of them had just arrived and I had to sort through literally thousands of them until I found mine.

I LOVE it.

 

[EddieD]

Fingers Crossed . . .

I'm curious what others have experienced when modifying the basics? I ordered my 17" 2.0 GHz iMac from Apple on the 25th, and have a "ship on or before June 3rd" status -- I changed the default RAM from 512 to 1 GIG, and the 160 GIG drive to 250.

As far as the RAM, I'm already realizing I should have probably bought it from Crucial, however, I'm going to have a GIG of RAM, so, it's hard to feel too badly about researching AFTER the purchase . . .

Anyway -- back to my question; when you add RAM or change the drive does it REALLY take them a whole week to do that? Should I expect it to ship before June 3rd?

Thanks for sharing any thoughts.

EddieD

P.S. By the way, this was an unexpected parental gift -- and I'm absolutely thrilled to be upgrading from my trusty, much-loved 3.5 year old 600 MHz G3 14" iBook . . . I use Garageband constantly, and will now be able to actually use those new keyboard sounds / amp simulations, etc!

 

[Bozola]

Woot.. I finally got mine

and I made a movie



https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/129247/

 

[law guy]

Patience that I can only barely comprehend

My father, now 77 years old, had his new 20" iMac delivered this week to his home on the other coast. I have been keenly interested in his purchase, trading several phone calls with him on the matter. His machine arrived mid-week (last Wednesday). Is it set up yet? No. Waiting for his friend to come over and help him take down his old PPC 601 machine. I bought Tiger over the weekend and was installing it while getting ready to go over to a friend's for dinner. This has both given me some perspective on my impatience (I have tried to convince him to at least open the box) and continued to drive me mad. His friend will be over tomorrow and I think he'll be amazed by 1) the 20" iMac (saw it at the Hartford Mac store - very pretty), and 2) OX 10 - he's still running OS 8. Talk about an upgrade!

 

[miked_in_canada]

Finally, the iMac has made its way into the SameDay shipping system.

The estimated delivery date is June 1 (this wednesday) and I am pretty excited. I went out and bought 100 DVD-R's at Best Buy for $30. That seemed like a pretty good deal and I also ogled Tiger and the iSight.

 

[miked_in_canada]

Got it today!

Excited as hell, don't know how I'm going to work.

 

[NapaCoach]

call in sick !

 

[Glenn Wolsey]

I'm unpacking my Mum's new iMac 17" Core Duo right now