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2016 Macbook Pro, Order/Shipping Thread
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Hey guys,
Mine delivered at 11:40am EST this morning. I pieced together a quick unboxing (very low quality) if you are dying for more info, here you go.
Let me know if you have questions!
Mine delivered at 11:40am EST this morning. I pieced together a quick unboxing (very low quality) if you are dying for more info, here you go.
Let me know if you have questions!
Here's mine. From reading yours, I would guess it's en-route.
12:13 am At local FedEx facility SHANGHAI CN
10:30 pm At local FedEx facility SHANGHAI CN
9:54 pm International shipment release - Import SHANGHAI CN
I ordered a maxed out CPU-GPU 15" with 256 GB SSD on 29th oct and it showed 7-15 DEC delivery date on Apple.com but suddenly I got a mssg yesterday that it will be delivered on 15th Nov
I'm confused why my laptop went from Shanghai China to Osaka Japan ?
Delivery destination is Piscataway NJ anyone else with the same thing
I'm confused why my laptop went from Shanghai China to Osaka Japan ?
Delivery destination is Piscataway NJ anyone else with the same thing
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Seems like each day there will be UPS105 and UPS81. Both get to the US 11mins apart. 105 leaves a bit earlier but stops in Osaka for sushi..LOL Search those flight numbers in FlightAware to see the history. I don't think tomorrows are posted yet but the schedule is the same every day looking at the history.
Mine did get its Departure scan at 9:01PM but didn't show on my UPS tracking till about 45mins after UPS81 left. I will await my scan in Anchorage to confirm I'm on that flight.
My issue is more that I think you're giving, for lack of a better phrase, "undue credit" to Apple for this. This is the result of their logistical partners. There's no evidence Apple did any sort of active work to ensure Americans get their stuff faster; nor is there evidence that at the time of the keynote, Phil Schiller or anyone else knew that they'd be arriving at different timeframes. Their uncertain "two or three weeks" timeframe instead of a specific launch date tells me they were still ironing those things out.
And so every couple of pages or so you remind us that you want to cancel your order because you feel slighted; and I get it. (The other posters comparison to racial injustice was absurd). I just don't think you're blaming the right people, that's all I'm saying. I don't think Apple knew, on the keynote stage, that some countries would get it less quickly; because I don't think they had finalized the logistics at all.
I totally get the launch day buzz. But what Apple does with iPhones is hold everyones back until they are ready for the 'big launch'. What they did this time was ship them out as soon as they possibly could using the fastest methods. And regulatory and just flat out differences in distance meant that some people got them sooner.
I'm with you 100% on the launch day buzz. Because I missed out on literally every other pre-order. I just am not so sure it actually is the best thing for Apple to hold everyones back so we all get them at the same time.
Mine says it will deliver 15.-22. but it's not even P4S...
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Wrong. The EU orders are not even preparing for shipping.
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That is literally what they do with every other product launch.
The 'cut-off time' system is already in operation. There was a cut-off time between people who had 2-3 week and 3-4 week and 4-5 week estimates.
Reductio ad absurdum. Apple didn't even try to have these arrive on the same day, it was just haphazard. They manage it with iPhones, why not with Macs?
Because for me and most people the launch day buzz is part of it.
I'm still grateful, I still have perspective, I still appreciate the insignificance of it all, but I can still express discontent.
I think it really comes down to the lack of first come first served. If it really was the case that there was some logistics nightmare (for a task that Apple has done countless times before), I would have expected at least some in Europe to have either received them today or for at least a number of people to have received the PFS notification.
As it is, to have a whole continent excluded can't be anything other than a plan to not process those shipments as a whole yet. I don't expect my MBP to be on my doorstep this instant, just to be dealt with fairly as a person in the queue of orders
Someone here posted the adapter plugged into the outlet. I see how it works with the US adapters, however, outlets in Germany aren't flat. Is this part of the adapter going to look like the top of an iPhone charger then, being non-retractable?
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My departure scan was 9:01PM and export was many hours before that. So unlikely you are on that flight. Maybe there is another flight that we don't know about later today, otherwise....
They don't seem to show the next flights till much closer to when it is scheduled. But expect the same two flights 105 and 81 to go tomorrow and every day this week except Sunday. The only difference is 81 will go to Japan on Sat and no 105 on Sat. Maybe there will be another random UPS85 but that one is only every so often. Maybe some other airline tracking sites have more of the scheduled flight listed.
I see.
But if I can't blame Apple for not finalising the logistics of it, who can I blame? The ball is in their court.
They have massive distribution hubs. Macs are low volume compared to, for example, iPhones. Stockpiling and having an en masse launch would have been totally possible.
And there is evidence that they prioritised Americans, because American customers were charged first, PFSed first, and shipped first.
We're still 'processing'.
Its strange that this is the first major product I've purchased on the Apple Store....ive usually just gone to the main stores and purchased from there.
With so much chatter about how usually Apple beat their estimate, i psyched myself up to receive it on Day 1 of the estimate or before. Now i'm in Day 2 of my estimated delivery, and i'm still at processing.
But yeh, i'm not disappointed at all.....i'm still in the time-frame Apple said it would be here and i trust it, irregardless of whether other people have received theirs or not.
As long as i have it on or before the 21st....end of my date slot....then i am happy, and literally no reason to be upset or disappointed...Apple have delivered what they told me they were going to.
However.....if it gets to the 22nd and i don't have, then major disappointment sets in......but until then, i'm chill.
With so much chatter about how usually Apple beat their estimate, i psyched myself up to receive it on Day 1 of the estimate or before. Now i'm in Day 2 of my estimated delivery, and i'm still at processing.
But yeh, i'm not disappointed at all.....i'm still in the time-frame Apple said it would be here and i trust it, irregardless of whether other people have received theirs or not.
As long as i have it on or before the 21st....end of my date slot....then i am happy, and literally no reason to be upset or disappointed...Apple have delivered what they told me they were going to.
However.....if it gets to the 22nd and i don't have, then major disappointment sets in......but until then, i'm chill.
Evidence that the European Customers are not getting them as quickly.
NOT evidence that Apple has done something specifically to ensure that Europeans get them less quickly. If you guys get tracking numbers FROM China in the next couple of days; then that's utter and pure BS and I'll be right there with the rallying cry with you. That's favoritism.
But if it's as many suspect; and these are indeed shipped; but not yet to a warehouse/distribution center? And that, like all previous orders, European customers don't get any updates to P4S or Shipped until they are AT the distribution center? Then chances are you'll see them in a couple of days, and they were still shipped as quickly as possible. The issue, then, is a lack of information. And I'm not sure why THAT is, but that seems to be the trend.
I always pictured us all unboxing our new Pros together, shedding tears across the world. Guess that's not happening anymore.. :/
This is the type of design of the power adapter that has been used for some time now.
I see you posting this almost every other page
Maybe it's more interesting to post it only if there are changes
IF we get information in the next day or two, I will happily take back my words however that still doesn't give us that launch day feeling that many of us were hoping for, who ordered literally minutes after the store opened. But I can live with that if we DO get something soon.
This is the type of design of the power adapter that has been used for some time now.
I knew I've seen this before. Thank you.
Then prepare to rally, because BTO MacBooks have never shipped from within Europe in modern Apple history.
Unless they have started making them in Ireland like I supposed yesterday. Wouldn't that be nice!