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Waiting for Quad Core 27" iMac - Australia

Took the plunge!

Not quite dead. I couldn't resist.
This is my first post - I've been reading these forums for years, and really enjoyed this thread, and found it very helpful, so thank you for all the great info.

I bit the bullet.
I ordered an i7 with 2tb hard drive at 6pm on 31st December, through the Apple store by phone. I wanted to take advantage of the Govt tax rebate for business purchases which ended on the 31st. (BTW, if your Mac is a business purchase, Apple gives small discount, about $120 in the case of the i7.)

Initial ship date was 15th Jan, Deliver by 21st Jan, but today I got this update and it looks like my machine will be delivered on the 15th Jan - 6 days earlier than expected(yipee):

Pick up date 11 Jan 2010
Destination MELBOURNE
Delivery Date
Signatory
Date Time Location Status
11 Jan 2010 21:45:25 Pudong International Airport Shipment Received At Transit Point.
11 Jan 2010 21:23:00 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
11 Jan 2010 21:10:01 Shanghai Shipment In Transit.
11 Jan 2010 19:53:11 Shanghai Shipment Collected From Sender.

So the total turnaround from ordering is just over two weeks.

I am very excited to be retiring my G5 imac, which has been totally reliable for 4 years and still going strong, just a little slow now.

I'll post again when I receive the i7, let you know what kind of state its in.

I will be using my i7 for Photoshop + Bridge, HD video editing from a Canon 7D, graphics, website content production. I am an artist with an a current archive of 600GB of photos and increasing daily. Looks like a great machine for what I do. I have managed to get 4 years of useful life out of all macs I have bought, starting with the revA G3 350Mhz Powermac in 1999.

cheers !
 
Day 73 for me, still waiting for stock i5 from DJ's Brisbane
and mid Jan is about Friday by my reckoning
 
If it was certain they had no problems and was easy to get a refund or replacement then i would consider it,

but to my question

Who has has received a replacement i7?

What is the process? Do they actually email you with a new tracking number as soon as it leave Shanghai?
 
Well I got in touch with them again today,
and they are saying end of January or 1st week in Feb,
it's a total joke.

If I wasn't getting the 4 years interest free and 10% discount I would have told them to shove it long ago
 
Officially checking out of the thread. All is going well with my imac, not a single glitch, loving it!

At the end of the day ill forget the pain, time heals all wounds.

Good luck everyone, thanks for all the fish.
 
dronus said:
Officially checking out of the thread. All is going well with my imac, not a single glitch, loving it!

At the end of the day ill forget the pain, time heals all wounds.

Good luck everyone, thanks for all the fish.
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great to hear mate! mine is running flawlessly as well :D its an absolutely amazing machine!
 
Sad to hear there are still folks waiting after this long...

Although not a quad - I just ordered a 27" c2d for a second screen for my i7 :D it is a refurb so fingers crossed it has no display issues!

(And yes, 27" refurbs are now occasionally showing up on the Apple Australia online store - including an i5 quad).
 
rockin

I'm writing this post from my freshly unboxed i7.:D:D:D

I have not done much with it yet, but the screen is clean and looks great, hard drive whisper quiet. totally silent. I can't perceive any faults with this machine at all thus far.

I'm doing software updates, deciding wether I should chance Migration Assistant from my old G5 Tiger, or do a fresh install of applications and everything else. Maybe I'll try the assistant, if it doesn't work out I can do a clean install and do it the hard way.

But most importantly - this computer is great straight out of the box, and no problems at all to report.

It has been exactly 14 days since I ordered it online at the Apple store. I'm very happy.:)

Good luck to those of you waiting for machines, and if you are still deciding to purchase, in my experience, so far all is good.

ciao!
 
FWIW: I just got back from holiday today and called Myer for an update on my stock i5 (ordered 18/11/09). Still on backorder and the only ETA the guy had was "mid to late Jan".
 
Day 83
DJ's suggested that they put in a CTO order for an i5 with wired keyboard, becuase I may get it sooner than waiting for their stock to arrive.

I am trying to be very Zen about it, but I want my Frickin iMac !!!
 
For anyone interested, here (finally) is a pic of my setup:

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The one on the right is my i7, which has been running great and is a lovely machine. The secondary on the left, connected via a mini-display port cable, is a refurb c2d acting primarily as a display for the i7.
 
Belmakor said:
For anyone interested, here (finally) is a pic of my setup:

4301818157_4651ed2269.jpg


The one on the right is my i7, which has been running great and is a lovely machine. The secondary on the left, connected via a mini-display port cable, is a refurb c2d acting primarily as a display for the i7.
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seems like a waste of a C2D :p but who am i to say that! do you still use the C2D for other things? :D
 
DoFoT9 said:
seems like a waste of a C2D :p but who am i to say that! do you still use the C2D for other things? :D
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Not yet... It does seem a huge shame to have all that power sitting there not utilised. But I love having the second display! (I find a single display quite restrictive).

I am definitely open to suggestions on how to best use the resources it provides while it acts as a slave to my main machine. Any good websites out there showing what might be possible? I did think of making it a full backup machine (i.e. mirror the drive from my i7 so that if the i7 fails I can just switch over) but that still seems like a bit of a waste, so...
 
Belmakor said:
Not yet... It does seem a huge shame to have all that power sitting there not utilised. But I love having the second display! (I find a single display quite restrictive).

I am definitely open to suggestions on how to best use the resources it provides while it acts as a slave to my main machine. Any good websites out there showing what might be possible? I did think of making it a full backup machine (i.e. mirror the drive from my i7 so that if the i7 fails I can just switch over) but that still seems like a bit of a waste, so...
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what is your occupation? if you are a heavy photographer/video editor then it would be useful. a media server would definitely also be an option but other then that i dont know. it would be a nice folding machine for SETI or Einstein or what have you.

a clone to the i7 seems a bit redundant :p but i guess you could add an external drive for TM purposes. possibilities are endless!
 
You could use one for the right side and one for the left side of your brain,
with the dominant side getting the i7
 
DoFoT9 said:
what is your occupation? if you are a heavy photographer/video editor then it would be useful. a media server would definitely also be an option but other then that i dont know. it would be a nice folding machine for SETI or Einstein or what have you.

a clone to the i7 seems a bit redundant :p but i guess you could add an external drive for TM purposes. possibilities are endless!
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I am a software engineer, so most of my uses for the machine are programming - either desktop Java apps (client runs Windows 7) or iPhone development. The projects are relatively small so distributed compiles wouldn't really gain much. It will probably help in putting together a more complex test setup for the desktop applications, maybe.

I am also a bit into photography as a wannabe amateur, would love to get into 3D graphics (lack the time) and do a little open-source real time strategy gaming (on the Spring engine - to which I'll occasionally contribute code).

The media server idea has promise, I think I'll look into that possibility a bit more. After all, there's a 1TB drive in there almost empty...
 
Belmakor said:
I am a software engineer, so most of my uses for the machine are programming - either desktop Java apps (client runs Windows 7) or iPhone development. The projects are relatively small so distributed compiles wouldn't really gain much. It will probably help in putting together a more complex test setup for the desktop applications, maybe.
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hmm so you dont need much more power then if the projects arent really big.

you could use the C2D for virtual machines for testing? one for vista, xp, win7, linux etc. maybe?

I am also a bit into photography as a wannabe amateur, would love to get into 3D graphics (lack the time) and do a little open-source real time strategy gaming (on the Spring engine - to which I'll occasionally contribute code).
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3D graphics would be really sweet to get into! i wouldnt mind that. takes a lot of time and skill though - i have neither ;)

The media server idea has promise, I think I'll look into that possibility a bit more. After all, there's a 1TB drive in there almost empty...
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hehe media servers are a brilliant idea. i stream to my PS3 from my iMac - can stream to other computers of course. im trying to think of other ideas but im drawing blanks!
 
When i run VMware im getting the screen flicker/blackout issue. It has been fine up until recently but has started to do it.

Rumour has it a fix might be available in the next few weeks, so see how that goes, apart from that everything is koochy koo. I just avoid running VMware and its all cool.

I also turned the resolution down a couple of notches so that my eyes can read whats on the screen!

Hope you guys dont get it, esp the guys still waiting for resellers, and Happy Australia Day!
 
Belmakor said:
Hmm... doesn't sound good, I hope the rumoured fix arrives and fixes your issue! I run vmware regularly without issue on my i7.
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Yeah i dont think it is hardware otherwise it would do it all the time. Im not sure if its VMware or Java/Flash or something like that. It seems persistant until you change the screen resolution (this probably restarts the X server) or you reboot. Smells of a driver/software or firmware issue.

I just avoid doing the things which make it flicker. Funily enough games are no problems and we have bought some off the app store thing with no issues really.

Ill look through the other threads, but sit tight for a fix.
 
I received my i7 yesterday – 28 days after placing my online order. It seems to be a week 03.

I haven't had much time on it yet ( and have currently lost it to miss 11 ) but so far so good. There are no stuck or dead pixels either on the screen or in the isight camera, and no flickering issues. I'm not sure if I have a yellow tinge in the bottom part of the screen, or if I am imagining it since I have read so much about it, but will test it properly later today.

At this stage I am one happy camper. The screen is amazing and I can't wait to have a proper play with it. I hope everyone else receives theirs soon.
 
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