Apple Releases 17'' MacBook Pro

[ZigFilm]

Mine doesn't have a delivery date. Just that it shipped. I checked the order tracking and it was 'received by FedEx after cutoff"

Do they ship on Saturdays from China? If yes, I'm hoping to get mine by Monday at the latest ...

Excitement builds ...

eV

Mine actually says the same thing on the FedEx website. The email I got from Apple says "Estimated Delivery by May 10th" so maybe that means it might come a bit early.

I wonder if they work on Weekends... I assume it would ship on Saturday. I can only hope.... I have a job interview that requires FCP and After Efx on Friday the 12th (neither of which I am that good at) so I have to get this and fine tune my skills so the sooner I get it the better!

 

[eVolcre]

Mine actually says the same thing on the FedEx website. The email I got from Apple says "Estimated Delivery by May 10th" so maybe that means it might come a bit early.

I wonder if they work on Weekends... I assume it would ship on Saturday. I can only hope.... I have a job interview that requires FCP and After Efx on Friday the 12th (neither of which I am that good at) so I have to get this and fine tune my skills so the sooner I get it the better!

Yup, I just checked the email and my estimated delivery is also May 10th. Which is wierd since I paid extra for the 2 day shipping ...

eV

 

[matticus008]

Yup, I just checked the email and my estimated delivery is also May 10th. Which is wierd since I paid extra for the 2 day shipping ...

eV

To answer someone's question, the answer is no as far as shipping on weekends. FedEx does some deliveries on Saturdays, but no pickups as far as I'm aware. A Saturday drop will go out Monday from most places of business--especially international ones, since pre-customs clearance only happens on weekdays.

Also, if your computer is coming from China, the 2 day shipping isn't going to help. The customs and import procedures can and often do take a day or two themselves. All 2 day shipping means is that FedEx will complete all moving legs (that is, the parts where it's not sitting in customs or waiting for pickup) in 2 days' time from package receipt...which is not the same as it being delivered in 2 days.

 

[eVolcre]

To answer someone's question, the answer is no as far as shipping on weekends. FedEx does some deliveries on Saturdays, but no pickups as far as I'm aware. A Saturday drop will go out Monday from most places of business--especially international ones, since pre-customs clearance only happens on weekdays.

Also, if your computer is coming from China, the 2 day shipping isn't going to help. The customs and import procedures can and often do take a day or two themselves. All 2 day shipping means is that FedEx will complete all moving legs (that is, the parts where it's not sitting in customs or waiting for pickup) in 2 days' time from package receipt...which is not the same as it being delivered in 2 days.

I see. But what if it has allready been received by FedEx, Friday evening Shanghai time. Would FedEx do anything with it on Saturday? Or is it going to sit in the warehouse until Monday?

eV

 

[Surreal]

Yup, I just checked the email and my estimated delivery is also May 10th. Which is wierd since I paid extra for the 2 day shipping ...
eV

as did i...

if fedex has it... i don't see why they wouldnt move it on saturday. especially when i paid extra just so they would ship as quickly as possible.

 

[eVolcre]

Something similar happened with my 15" MBP. I got the email Friday mornign that it had shipped, it was delivered to me in Indiana on Monday morning. Quite a quick turnaround

eV

 

[matticus008]

I see. But what if it has allready been received by FedEx, Friday evening Shanghai time. Would FedEx do anything with it on Saturday? Or is it going to sit in the warehouse until Monday?

eV

It will probably go out on a flight as long as it's in FedEx's possession before the weekend starts. But when it arrives Stateside, it'll sit around until Monday before customs processing will even start. Sometimes they get through in a day, sometimes it takes a few days. It depends where it's going and which office has it and how backed up they are, etc. Sometimes the flights just line up and packages get through to places much faster than they should. It doesn't hurt that Indianapolis is a big shipping hub and that the major FedEx facility in Kentucky (or Tennessee?) isn't far off.

if fedex has it... i don't see why they wouldnt move it on saturday. especially when i paid extra just so they would ship as quickly as possible.

They'll move it during the weekend, as long as they already have it before the weekend and the package is in a facility that does weekend work. You didn't technically pay for them to ship it sooner, you paid for faster delivery after the point of shipping, but again if it's coming from China, it's not guaranteed to be faster.

 

[ZigFilm]

Yeah, I think getting it Monday would be a miracle... Tuesday is a possibility if it gets through customs fast - which I would imagine it would. It's not like an individual sending a random package and it gets stuck in customs. I'm sure Apple gets these things through pretty quickly.

 

[asaraiva]

Amazon orders

Did anybody receive a shippment information email from Amazon yet?

I order mine there and I am really willing to receive it before the 12th...

 

[BWhaler]

Congrats to all of those who got their shipping notification.

I want one of these beauties so badly, but given everything I have read about the 15", I just didn't have the balls to order one.

I'm waiting for the reviews.

If there are no noise, heat, airport, bluetooth issues, I'll probably buy one.

 

[TAV]

I'm not really a review geek, but as I've been interested in the performance of this model (as are others) and since I already own a MBP 2G and a 20" iMac, I figured I'd just give you peeps a quick first impression, for what it's worth.

I got my hands on a 17" MBP last night. I should have written this fresh last evening, but I was dead tired. Anyway, here's what I recall:

Config was 2G RAM, 120GB HD. I had an opportunity to do a few things with it. This was a social setting and more of an iPod/iTunes dump, so I didn't really have an opportunity to run everything through it's paces.

As it wasn't my machine, I didn't have a copy of anything graphic/CPU intensive (like a nice nasty PPC photoshop session) to install and really give it a beating, however I put a copy of Handbrake on it and did a DVD conversion while also on Safari, with iTunes open and using iSquint to convert the video output of a recent surf session to H.264 for iPod.

I had it side-by-side with my old G4 17" (did not have my 2G MBP with me at the time), so this review is a bit slanted and it's not fair for me to try and "remember" last night's thoughts and compare now with my current MBP except in a few instances - and hey, I'd been drinking.

It connected via the home ethernet seemlessly, instantly and connection speeds were on par with every other machine running in the house.

I found the screen res and overall appearance to be much better than my G4 17".

Encoding FPS versus what I get for my 20" iMac were on par - with all apps running as outlined above.

I tested all the standard iLife apps, everything was snappy off the dock and worked well.

Speaker sound was superior to my G4.

No sticky keys. When prompted, paired with a wireless mouse with no issues.

Heat? What heat. My G4 was hotter just sitting there. I picked them both up a few times and did the lap test. The total time both were running (both idle and testing) was about 2 hours. Both machines were on a wooden kitchen table. Home temp was around 62F give or take.

Battery life was not tested, as we were plugged in.

Whine? Silent as a Church mouse. Typical drive noise when inserting a DVD, but nothing abnormal. I honestly could not hear the fans or drives at all. My good old G4 is pretty silent and the MBP was no different.

Overall quality? It seems better constructed than my current MBP, but that comment might be skewed as I was just happy to play around with it. But I did open and close the screen, walked around with it a bit, and it seems more "solid" than my current MBP.

Note: This is one machine and only my casual observations and first impressions.

 

[Surreal]

I got my hands on a 17" MBP last night...

you in china?

 

[TAV]

Southern Cal - after a brief stint with a MBP 17" from Santa Clara (or around there)....

 

[stew400523]

Has anyone noticed that the 17' MBP now say ships 3-5 days. This morning I know it was 5-7 days. I can't wait to get mine

 

[Kace]

1
MBPRO 17/2.16/1X1G/120/256VRAM/SD-DL-AUS
19/05/2006 25/05/2006


Mine ships on the 19th and ETD 25th. Sucks to live in australia.

 

[DeVizardofOZ]

17" my choice too../

Hi all,
looks like TAV has been lucky. My impression is that the 17" profits from errors made with the 15" MBP. In may also be that the 17"is made on a different assembly line where the quality control actually works .

What I have heard so far about the 15" model quality has devastated me. Wanted to get one for my wife and then a 17" for myself, preferably with the MEROM processor, due to be available later in 2006.
So here is a prospective customer, turned off because of quality issues, and only when these are resolved will spend 5 Grand for the lot. Even with the old PB's there have been plenty of issues, like a flickering screen, battery problems, bad keyboard quality.

Here's a bit of laptop history for you gals and guys:
TOSHIBA, build like a TIGER TANK... haha
My (very) old Toshiba 780DVD (10 TEN!! years old, and yes it already had a DVD drive, never had hardware problems, and still works fine today, considering the age and slow processor. It even came with a camera attached.... But this "luxury"had its price... At the time I bought it the tag was US$6.000.
10 years ago I could sit in my hometown in a cafe and connect my Toshiba to the WWW via mobile phone, collecting my mail, etc. Though it was slow, it worked fine.

Let us hope, that in the near future APPLE MB's and MBP's are not just on the outside build like tanks...

CIAO

 

[Herfnwolf]

The MBP "17s are shipping

Left Shanghai heading to North Carolina this morning.


Details
May 6, 2006 1:55 PM
Left origin
SHANGHAI CN

1:48 PM
Picked up
SHANGHAI CN

Package received after FedEx cutoff
8:44 AM
Package data transmitted to FedEx

 

[DHagan4755]

Yup, I got my shipping notice too! Finally! I should have it by Wednesday.

 

[ZigFilm]

Left Shanghai heading to North Carolina this morning.


Details
May 6, 2006 1:55 PM
Left origin
SHANGHAI CN

1:48 PM
Picked up
SHANGHAI CN

Package received after FedEx cutoff
8:44 AM
Package data transmitted to FedEx

I think picked up and left origin simply means it was picked up from the Apple plant and is now at the FedEx distribution center. Mine actually has "left origin" listed before it has "picked-up." When it actually gets on a plane, I believe it usually specifies enroute to destination or something... I hope I'm wrong, though! It would be nice if they were all on a plane on their way to us. Of course, they could be on a plane and the website just might not be updated....

 

[matticus008]

I think picked up and left origin simply means it was picked up from the Apple plant and is now at the FedEx distribution center.

Yep, you're right, that's all "left origin" means. Note the "received after cutoff" message there too, specifying that it wasn't going anywhere on the 6th. Also, the tracking website is tricky. May 6th was actually yesterday in China, and I think all date/time specifications are done in time local to the current location of the package--so the time zone changes as it moves across the planet. That means you can conceivably (as I have experienced) have all package progress marked on May 6th even though it spans two "real world" days of travel.

 

[Surreal]

Yep, you're right, that's all "left origin" means. Note the "received after cutoff" message there too, specifying that it wasn't going anywhere on the 6th. Also, the tracking website is tricky.

why would they say recieved after cutoff AND left origin?

anyway, this speaks against the idea that they arent moving

this is mine

May 6, 2006 2:34 PM
Int'l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK



May 5, 2006 8:25 PM
Picked up
SHANGHAI CN

Package received after FedEx cutoff
8:25 PM
Left origin
SHANGHAI CN


6:29 PM
Package data transmitted to FedEx

 

[Cryptography]

Getting closer.....On US Soil!

May 6, 2006 2:26 PM
Int'l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK

 

[matticus008]

why would they say recieved after cutoff AND left origin?

Because "received after cutoff" means that it missed outbound flights for the day, and "left origin" means that it left the origin location (the Apple warehouse or original pickup location--not the country).

anyway, this speaks against the idea that they arent moving

Who said they aren't moving?

 

[ZigFilm]

Getting closer.....On US Soil!

May 6, 2006 2:26 PM
Int'l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK

4:59 PM
Departed FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK

2:34 PM
Int'l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK


Looks like mine is heading to L.A. already! I wonder if I will get it on Monday!?!?!?

 

[buddhahacker]

Almost here

4:04 PM
Departed FedEx location
ANCHORAGE, AK

2:34 PM
Int'l shipment release
ANCHORAGE, AK


At this rate it is already in Texas getting staged for a Monday delivery by 4PM.

SWEET!!