Nor was I. I can't recall ever having a card authorisation in the past either. For me the authorisation appears just as it goes to preparing for shipment.
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2016 Macbook Pro, Order/Shipping Thread
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Did you try calling or chatting with support? They may be able to change your order for you, without changing your ship date...i wish i could upgrade from 512GB hard drive to 1TB but then I would loose my spot and delivery date moved to December
i thought some others posted here that it moved there ship date to 4-5 weeks by doing this
No movement on mine yet.....14th-21st Nov here.
Will know mine is soon, because it has so little to travel, i live only 30 miles from the factory i presume.....will certainly be next day for me.
Edit: On the authorization thing, when i first placed my order i got a text message from my bank saying a charge of HK$17000 was made to my card.....it hasn't shown up on my account, so i assume that was a "pre-authorization" that they do here.....but doesn't show up on a statement until the actual charge gets made.
Will know mine is soon, because it has so little to travel, i live only 30 miles from the factory i presume.....will certainly be next day for me.
Edit: On the authorization thing, when i first placed my order i got a text message from my bank saying a charge of HK$17000 was made to my card.....it hasn't shown up on my account, so i assume that was a "pre-authorization" that they do here.....but doesn't show up on a statement until the actual charge gets made.
Mine was authorized for the full amount and another for $1 right after I placed the order. They've both fallen off since then.
no luck they told me it could impact my delivery date no guarantee. not risking it being moved to december
:-(no luck they told me it could impact my delivery date no guarantee. not risking it being moved to december
When i did my change, I was told it wouldn't impact the order in anyway shape or form, went and made the change under that assumption, and my new configuration was delayed. Spoke to a manager at apple, and their going to look into expediting the build and delivery for me.
i was told by the chat rep today that they should start shipping out on november 10th.
Oooh cool. That sounds about right.
Who knows if the rep actually knew what they were talking about. My chat rep said she had nothing else she could offer besides the order status page.
the 10th would technically be 2 weeks since we ordered if you did on the 27th.
I was guessing the same. Ship around 10 Nov for delivery on or about 17 Nov ( for the 17-25 Nov crowd).
My card was not authorized either. I don't know if it matters that I used the Apple Barclay's card or not.
I think they will charge you later or again, How can they sell this laptop for $1999 :OI'm thinking it is the non touch bar version
Just get Apple care when it arrives. You can't use it until then anyway. You also get 1 year free by default
It can't be the non-touch bar version because the 15" has touch bar only. If 15" was also in a non-touch bar version I would have ordered that one.
Got my 0% interest card through today so finally got my order in!
Went for the base touchbar with 16GB RAM in Space Grey. Was going to get the 512GB but if I need any more storage I'll get a Samsung T3 drive for half the price Apple wanted.
Gotta wait 4-5 weeks now I guess it'll give me time to carefully select my dongles and wires from Amazon...
Went for the base touchbar with 16GB RAM in Space Grey. Was going to get the 512GB but if I need any more storage I'll get a Samsung T3 drive for half the price Apple wanted.
Gotta wait 4-5 weeks now
I guess it'll give me time to carefully select my dongles and wires from Amazon...
Ok, I upped the ante by ordering second alternative to base 13" w/Touch (i5, 256 GB SSD) I ordered after launch. Put order on i7 + 512GB SSD version of 13" MPr w/Touch (of course). Now I have a couple days to decide which config I want.
I usually get a base setup with i5 (I have iMac 5k for heavy stuff) but I was wondering is i7 make a difference?
Do you have any experience?
Of course I'm not looking for difference in web browsing but scientific computation with R/Python, computational software (OpenFOAM), heavy data sets - millions of records in one file (1 GB size csv), stormwater/water networks modelling software, Matlab (heavy online data processing), Mathematica.
I occasionally use Pixelmator and other light graphics software. I use a lot text processors with huge files full of figures and stuff (Pages / Word). VMWare for Win7 when I need to use Statsoft Statistica.
I usually get a base setup with i5 (I have iMac 5k for heavy stuff) but I was wondering is i7 make a difference?
Do you have any experience?
Of course I'm not looking for difference in web browsing but scientific computation with R/Python, computational software (OpenFOAM), heavy data sets - millions of records in one file (1 GB size csv), stormwater/water networks modelling software, Matlab (heavy online data processing), Mathematica.
I occasionally use Pixelmator and other light graphics software. I use a lot text processors with huge files full of figures and stuff (Pages / Word). VMWare for Win7 when I need to use Statsoft Statistica.
I was so happy when I saw that someone else will be using his new MBP to run OpenFOAM
. I was asking the same question, but it seems that everyone agrees that the upgrade to i7 doesn't make a great difference, only about 10%. SO if the price difference ( about 300$) is Ok for you, go on.