Apple to Release Updated MacBook Air and Mac Pro Models This Week?

[NurJahan]

I have just been to an authorized reseller in Phnom Penh (iOne). They had removed all the Airs, and of course I asked why. They said they were preparing for the launch of the new model. I asked if it was arriving tomorrow and the salesman just started smiling. So it seems pretty sure to me that it will indeed arrive tomorrow.

I'm not familiar with how stores go about with the update, but would the reseller employee know about the new MBA release date? It seems like Apple store employees don't know anything as of now.

 

[PopinFRESH]

I'm not familiar with how stores go about with the update, but would the reseller employee know about the new MBA release date? It seems like Apple store employees don't know anything as of now.

Agreed, an Apple reseller wouldn't get any more information that you or I before the retail stores roll out the new product. They are likely doing work based on the same speculation that we are discussing here. Apple usually drop ships new product launches the day of launch to 3rd party resellers. I worked for best buy and since Apple started a retail partnership with them again there was only 1 time that we got a pallet before a launch of a new product. and that was the "new" unibody MacBook's. We got a pallet that was sealed in a black box that had a big warning label stating do not open before xx/xx/xx. Every other product launch we either didn't get any stock until after it launched, or it was drop shipped that same day, usually in the morning.