In Europe they don't even have TouchBar MacBooks in the show room
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2016 Macbook Pro, Order/Shipping Thread
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I know it's not the best scenario but I would just go and try to make the best of it. I traveled 3 1/2 hours to get mine. The store refused to hold it and wouldn't even tell me how many they had in stock that morning, just "low quantities" (they had at least 3 when I left though). I figured my shot was good for a $2800 machine so I left as quickly as possible.
To be honest, I don't understand this. Which kind of maintenance requires taking down the page every Sunday? I wanted to check my status and got prompted with the exact same page here in Germany.
"Our order status service is currently in great demand. Please try again later."
too many shoppers checking the status has crashed the page i suppose...
Not sure if you're serious but this is classic IT. This maintenance window was probably negotiated long, long ago before the online store ever came online. You tell the business that you can leave the store up for a majority of a week/month whatever but you need a certain period of time, 2-3 hours to perform maintenance on the web servers and web applications driving the store. During this very brief period they're probably upgrading whatever they need to + checking to make sure everything went smoothly. The entire store probably isn't going through a major overhaul on any given week (though it could), however they may be pulling metrics or swapping in/out modules and applications, this could cause the page to behave erratically for the end user. At the end of the maintenance window, if things don't look well, roll back the changes and try again next week.
Imagine if changes need to be made to the app that processes web payments from the store. A terribly managed ecommerce shop will just do this on the fly, whenever they feel like it. Users could be greeted with anything from a blank page or (worse) malformed transactions being submitted for processing.
Wow, that's a big drive! Kudos and cool that you got one! I will take a shot on Monday or Tuesday of this next week, especially if I can get them to tell me that they have one or two in stock. (Even getting them to let you know is hard 9 times of ten.)
Thanks for the hope/inspiration!
This thread is so empty now…it seems like everyone already has their new Macbook with TouchBar except for me
This thread is so empty now…it seems like everyone already has their new Macbook with TouchBar except for me
*and Europe.
Yup, I'm the the 3-4 week area with it arriving between the 29th & 6th. I saw some people getting charged in the 3-4 week area but not me yet... I just cant wait as I'm so excited....This thread is so empty now…it seems like everyone already has their new Macbook with TouchBar except for me
This thread is so empty now…it seems like everyone already has their new Macbook with TouchBar except for me
You're not alone... my expected STS date is a month from tomorrow (12/21) so there's not much to say except to moan about not having my new computer yet. Believe me, I'm doing enough of that as I sit here waiting. What's worse is I choose Space Grey, but now I'm thinking I'd like to stick with Silver, but I don't want to cancel and get my order pushed back another 2 weeks. (Then I remind myself that I'm extremely lucky to have these first world problems.)
Lol im 3-4 weeks with delievery 23 nov - 1st dec. No charge, no movement.
13" base 16gb
If you order today the shipping dates will be 30 Dec - 4 Jan. That is not far from your current dates. I actually canceled my order today (12-16Dec) just to change to silver and my new shipping window 30 Dec to 4 Jan. I'm still happy for what I did.
If you order today the shipping dates will be 30 Dec - 4 Jan. That is not far from your current dates. I actually canceled my order today (12-16Dec) just to change to silver and my new shipping window 30 Dec to 4 Jan. I'm still happy for what I did.
I'm already having impatience problems with the 21st. I doubt I can make it sanely until the 3rd.
I'm already having impatience problems with the 21st. I doubt I can make it sanely until the 3rd.
I know how you feel. Hopefully they will ship them earlier than our estimated time.
Thanks for the tip, I'll shop around. I just assumed they wouldn't have any custom ones in stock!
I thought about silver too, but I saw the two colors in store and the silver, with that long touch bar, seemed "off" to me, like it was too jarring. The space grey, with the blsck touch bar, looked more striking to me.
I ordered one yesterday and am quoted for Dec 28 - Jan 3, which is perfect because it's right before I leave for CES!!
Yeah, I was happily amused when I found the configuration I wanted.
I can tell you though that they may not have every configuration in both colors
I was told by an Apple tech when I told him the config I ordered, that they wouldn't have a config like mine in store. I have a window of Dec. 19-23.
Email the business team at your local store and ask them if they have the one you are looking for in stock. That is what I did to find my laptop. I even paid for it over the phone so that there was no doubt it was my laptop.
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Ignore the tech and ask them to check the back room. They told me the same thing and I emailed the business team and that store had my custom config.
now u have to wait till next year to get it tho
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im 25-6th and tis PREPARING FOR SHIPPING AHAHAHAH
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