GTX 285 mac edition at Germany/Europe

Hi all,
I really want the GTX 285 mac edition graphic-card and I'm still waiting when starts the shipment in Germany/Europe!!!!
Does anybody have information about that????
Thx in advance and best wishes,
Masterdid

Hi The Hetter,
thx a lot for your comment ... but I didn't complain, I asked for information! Waiting with an endpoint is easier than waiting into the deep black (I hope that is a conceptional english formulation) ... and the GTX 285 mac edition is available, the point is: not in Germany!!!
Anyway, reading at EVGA forum was very interesting ... there still some problems with drivers, OpenGL at MacOS which have to be solved ... perhaps it's better to wait ... germany get it not, until the card will run fine (at the latest with snow leopard)
With bootcamp the card must be the heaven :-P
And ... thx for the suggestion to look at "MacRumors", I didn't know this site before!
Best wishes,
Masterdid

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