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AppleInsider claims that "several of Apple's larger corporate and government customers" have already started receiving shipments of the PowerMac G5 in both single and dual configurations "a couple of weeks ago".

The Mac OS X 10.2.7 shipping with these machines is said to be a pre-release version -- as Apple seeded developers with a version of 10.2.7 just this past Tuesday.

While it seems unlikely that PowerMac G5s would make their way into the wild without photos and benchmarks being instantly posted to the internet, MacBidouille posted (what appears to be) an independent update with similar claims:


    According to one of our sources, some large customers of Apple already got their Dual 2GHz G5 about three weeks ago.
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