As expected, Apple's online store as of Friday no longer lists the 17-inch 1.9GHz iMac G5 for sale. Last week it was reported that Apple had officially discontinued the model in the United States and retained only limited inventory, which has since been exhausted via direct sales from the Apple online store. This week, the company also slashed the price of the 20-inch 2.1GHz iMac G5 by $200. Supplies of this model are also dwindling.

News source: AppleInsider





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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by docvenom04 on 04 Feb 2006 - 04:28
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by plati on 04 Feb 2006 - 07:15
So what exactly does this mean, they werent selling so theyre cutting production, or theres a new one on the way containing intel (i assume)?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by nwBen on 04 Feb 2006 - 14:24
Also discontinued here in Australia
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by D.V on 04 Feb 2006 - 16:18
they are phasing those out b/c theyve already released the intel ones.

the 17 incher G5's are sold so they are no longer listed
the 20 will be listed until those are sold out as well.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by mikeyj on 06 Feb 2006 - 16:46
What they really should be considering is just making a 20 inch G5 model only with different cpu and ram specs. The 17 inch models should not be included under the new intel badge and should remain discontinued, bigger is better. Forget the 17 inch, just make the 20 inch G5 standard.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Chicane-UK on 06 Feb 2006 - 18:10
Having seen the performance comparisons between the Intels and the G5's, I think if I were planning on buying an iMac right now i'd be trying to pick up a G5 before they're all gone!
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by Jon on 09 Feb 2006 - 20:37
I was thinking to myself "who'd buy one with new models coming out", but I didn't take that fact into account.

Also there's the Classic point, I guess some people *need* to use applications that simply won't be ported to OS X PPC or Intel versions, and given the latter no longer offers the classic environment, PPC is the way.

One example I've come across recently is Outlook 2001 with Exchange 5.5 . It's simply the only MAPI client that is compatible with Ex5.5, ie: supporting calendar, tasks, etc etc. Entourage uses webDAV which isn't a 5.5 protocol.
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