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How does Apple ship an iMac?
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Can someone who has ordered a G5 iMac from the Apple Online Store tell me if Apple ships the iMac G5 only in it's box or do they double box it or wrap the box with paper & tape?
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My G5 came shipped only in its box, and there was a nice sized impact hole in the box too.  (Luckily the box took the hit to a spot near the top, away from the case and on the styrofoam instead.) I ordered it from the Apple Store, so I imagine that how they're generally shipped.
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all Apple desktops except the mini are shipped in their retail boxes. the mini, iBook, and PowerBook have shipping boxes.
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But the Powerbook's shipping box is not corrugated cardboard. It's about the thickness of the cardboard behind a pad of paper.
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My G5 iMac shipped in its white box. No other box or paper round it.
Box was a wee bit battered but the foam etc in the box seemed to have the actual computer well protected 
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Double boxed. Came in a large discreet brown box. I cut it open and the familiar white apple packaging slipped out. Very discreet (compared to the 22" ACD I bought a few years ago, which came in its white box). Btw, this is the new iSight iMac.
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Originally Posted by sray
Double boxed. Came in a large discreet brown box. I cut it open and the familiar white apple packaging slipped out. Very discreet (compared to the 22" ACD I bought a few years ago, which came in its white box). Btw, this is the new iSight iMac.
My laptops and my iMac all shipped in a brown cardboard box, which was the exact size to fit the normal white box.
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I'm so afraid what my new iMac will look like when I get it. I ordered .mac the same day still has yet to arrive (its been on a truck for delivery for 2 days) UPS YUK.
Do you guys know if they use ups to ship computers like that or do they use some other sort of service?
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Originally Posted by sray
Double boxed. Came in a large discreet brown box.
Similar in my case with a Powerbook. From the posts above, I guess that packaging depends on the local carrier. I am in Europe by the way.
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The carrier doesn't pack the unit, Apple does.
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Yeah double boxed in a descreet brown box. All the way from Shanghai to Yorkshire, England without a scratch on the box! TNT did good!
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Originally Posted by tooki
The carrier doesn't pack the unit, Apple does.
That sounds reasonable, but why Apple would pack the units in a different way, according (seemingly) to destination?
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