I ordered the same day, called apple about another issue (which turned out to be not a problem after all), my dates are between the 7th and 13th, though the guy from apple told me it had a big chance to arrive sooner (He said between 3rd and 5th). Not much but a week is a week
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Edit: Oh and he mentioned that models that are not BTO (i.e base with 8 gm ram, or 2.6 with 8 gb of ram) are more likely to come faster, not sure about this, even though I did max the ram.