{"id":1640,"date":"2003-08-21T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T21:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/21\/antici\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:08:08","slug":"antici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/21\/antici\/","title":{"rendered":"Antici&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13696,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thecomputerstore.com\\\/sealoc.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312124958\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thecomputerstore.com\\\/sealoc.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 10:12:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 10:12:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9399,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/powermac&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090901225426\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/powermac\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/powermac&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 00:31:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:04:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:48:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:35:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 04:47:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 04:47:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13697,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com\\\/destinations\\\/2003\\\/08\\\/g5s_now_shippin.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Talk about a difficult decision.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t mentioned this publicly on here yet, but last week I went down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecomputerstore.com\/sealoc.html\" title=\"The Mac Store\">The Mac Store<\/a> in the University District and plunked down the money for a mid-range <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powermac\/\" title=\"Apple - Power Mac\">1.8 Ghz single processor Power Mac<\/a>. At the time I paid for it, the salesmen were fairly sure that they&#8217;d be receiving the machines within a few days.<\/p>\n<p>As the week has gone by, though, it&#8217;s become apparent that even though Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/destinations\/2003\/08\/g5s_now_shippin.html\" title=\"G5's now shipping!\">has started shipping<\/a> the new machines, it&#8217;s something of a slow process. The current theory (which I read on a messageboard last night, though I can&#8217;t find the post now) is that Apple is shipping the low-end single-processor 1.6Ghz machines to educational institutions first, and retailers second, to be followed by midrange single-processor 1.8Ghz machines, then finally, the high-end dual-processor 2.0Ghz machines. When I called The Mac Store this morning to see if they&#8217;d had any further word on their shipment date, I was given a similar story &#8212; they&#8217;re expecting the 1.6Ghz machines &#8220;any time now&#8221;, but the 1.8Ghz machines have a much looser ship date, possibly &#8220;as late as Sept.\u00a08th&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, I got to thinking. Part of the reason I ordered the midrange machine was simply impatience &#8212; word was out that Apple was on-track to ship on time (which, in all fairness, they&#8217;re doing &#8212; just not as fast as we&#8217;d all like), and I&#8217;m more than ready to move up from my current 350Mhz G3 tower. I had the money available for the midrange machine, expected it to arrive within a week, and decided to go for it. Now, however, I&#8217;ve been waiting for a week, and it&#8217;s possible (though not gauranteed) that I could be waiting for another two weeks. Given that, I turned it over in my head for a bit, and decided that as long as I&#8217;m (whimper, whine) resigning myself to waiting longer than I&#8217;d expected, I might as well wait for something <em>really<\/em> worth waiting for &#8212; and called The Mac Store and changed my payment from a full payment on the midrange machine to a (large) down payment on the top of the line machine.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m going to be waiting a bit longer &#8212; current estimations for shipping on the high end G5&#8217;s are mid to late September. But that gives me a few more weeks to scrape up the last \\$600 I need, and when the time comes, I&#8217;ll have the absolute top of the line high-end dual 2Ghz G5 Power Mac sitting in my apartment. The waiting&#8217;s gonna kill me &#8212; but the final result will be <em>more<\/em> than worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m going to be waiting a bit longer &mdash; current estimations for shipping on the high end G5&#8217;s are mid to late September. But that gives me a few more weeks to scrape up the last $600 I need, and when the time comes, I&#8217;ll have the absolute top of the line high-end dual 2Ghz G5 Power Mac sitting in my apartment. The waiting&#8217;s gonna kill me &mdash; but the final result will be more than worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}