GTX480 and 470 not availible til 01.05.10 in Norway

[Madcatatlas]

Waaat

Not 12.april by a longshot
this sucks, even though it isnt what we were expecting/hoping for.

Whats the story in Sweden, denmark, finnland, hell ..Europe at all!?

 

[happy medium]

Did you mean 01/05/2011?

Where did you get this info?

 

[zerocool84]

Did you mean 01/05/2011?

Where did you get this info?

No in Europe the month goes after the day of the month so 01/05/10 is 05/01/10 here in America.

 

[Cuular]

I believe that's 1, May. Gotta adapt to the date style of the countries being talked about.

Like ZC said/

 

[Daedalus685]

:hmm:
Why does anyone anywhere use a date format that is not in descending order? I suppose I could understand ascending order as well.. but people seriously use a format that is neither?? /boggle

At any rate... this is poor news for folks in Norway... Strange too, we deal with a few high tech machine vision companies there who seem to be into CUDA.

 

[Madcatatlas]

We are pretty quick in adopting new hardware i think..

Im not sure, might be importer/distributor..whatever just making sure he doesnt blow his estimate. might be late april for all we know.

hey atleast we got the benchmarks

 

[Lonyo]

One UK website is listing 6th of April, but the prices are so stupid it doesn't even really matter.
GTX470 on pre-order a week away, or an HD5870 for the exact same price and available now...

One UK retailer has 12th April listed, but pre order numbers available are in low double digits or single digits (<20 units available on each of the 7 different cards available).
Don't know if that's because they already sold out their pre0order allocations, but either way it doesn't bode well for day 1 non-pre-order availability in at least some places.

 

[Qbah]

Danish PIXmania lists the GTX480 availability on the 2nd or 9th of April. At a whooping 3800DKK... (~510&#8364; or ~$685). You can get a HD5870 at ~2800DKK.

EDIT: Some other shops point at 1st of May too... for 3999DKK O_O

 

[tweakboy]

You should get one on USA site and have it shipped to Norway via USPS or DHL,,,, gl

 

[ronnn]

Does anyone expect good availability anywhere? Only way I see good availability is very high prices to make low demand. Nvidia has very loyal customers and demand will be great.

 

[Rubycon]

No problem! Norwegians have been keeping warm this winter with HD5970s. Why do you think it's so hard to find them!

 

[lsquare]

I believe that's 1, May. Gotta adapt to the date style of the countries being talked about.

Like ZC said/

I think most of the world uses that date format. Obviously we're use to mm/dd/yyyy format, but the US remains an exception for a lot of things. (i.e imperial vs. metric)

 

[Madcatatlas]

No problem! Norwegians have been keeping warm this winter with HD5970s. Why do you think it's so hard to find them!

true i guess. though there are always some 5970s available on the norwegian webshops. often watercooled editions though

 

[RussianSensation]

:hmm:
Why does anyone anywhere use a date format that is not in descending order?

In some languages you state the date of the month first. While in English you would say on May 1st, 2010, in other languages, say Russian, you would say on the 1st of May, 2010.

 

[Shilohen]

In some languages you state the date of the month first. While in English you would say on May 1st, 2010, in other languages, say Russian, you would say on the 1st of May, 2010.

Yeah, same old true for French. However, when using short format, I prefer the ISO standard, so yyyy/mm/dd. This format also support alpha sort which is kind of nice.

 

[Voo]

Yeah, same old true for French. However, when using short format, I prefer the ISO standard, so yyyy/mm/dd. This format also support alpha sort which is kind of nice.

Same true for German, but it can be really hard to decipher about what date people are talking and let's be honest dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd make sense, but mm/dd/yyyy is just strange - that'd like minute:second:hour

But hey we've got to live with stuff like that

 

[lsquare]

In some languages you state the date of the month first. While in English you would say on May 1st, 2010, in other languages, say Russian, you would say on the 1st of May, 2010.

I'm pretty sure that date format isn't unique to English, but rather the US. I'm pretty sure most of the world especially Europe uses that date format. Heck, even the default MS Windows 7 date format for Canadian English uses that format.

 

[lsquare]

Yeah, same old true for French. However, when using short format, I prefer the ISO standard, so yyyy/mm/dd. This format also support alpha sort which is kind of nice.

No way, it's an ISO standard? You have a link to that? I'd love to read about it!

 

[Daedalus685]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Working at a government lab in Canada it is all I ever get to see, I really didn't realize the USA put the day in the middle

 

[lsquare]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Working at a government lab in Canada it is all I ever get to see, I really didn't realize the USA put the day in the middle

The format used in this thread is different from the ISO standard in that link. I don't see the DD/MM/YYYY format in that link.

 

[Daedalus685]

The format used in this thread is different from the ISO standard in that link. I don't see the DD/MM/YYYY format in that link.

YYYY-MM-DD is ISO.

The OP used the opposite which is also sort of common.. descending is proper though, hence my confusion when folks though he meant MM-DD-YYYY as I didn't know anyone ever used that.

 

[lsquare]

YYYY-MM-DD is ISO.

The OP used the opposite which is also sort of common.. descending is proper though, hence my confusion when folks though he meant MM-DD-YYYY as I didn't know anyone ever used that.

I understand that, but someone said that the date format used by the op is also an ISO standard. That's what I'm not sure about, but I know it's used in parts of the world.

 

[Daedalus685]

I understand that, but someone said that the date format used by the op is also an ISO standard. That's what I'm not sure about, but I know it's used in parts of the world.

Nah, the chap that mentioned ISO just said that the common speech in French is also the day, month then year but that they prefer ISO.

 

[Madcatatlas]

Way to hijack the topic!! just kidding, interesting

anyway, bump as to ask why this is the case, is it 12.04.10 or is it 01.05.10 or even later as that date is set by the top seller in Norway, komplett.no

apparantly 273 Gainward GTX480 will be in stock at 01.05.10
no mention of other cards so far, though another site, netshop.no lists several brands being in stock 03.05.10

sucks