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First Apple Silicon Macs With M1 Chip Begin Shipping to Customers Ahead of November 17 Launch

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Just a few days after Apple's first Macs with its custom-designed M1 chip became available to order, the first orders are now beginning to ship to customers, with deliveries set to begin arriving to customers on Tuesday, November 17.

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While most pre-orders are still in the "processing" or "preparing to ship" stage on Apple's website, UPS is beginning to show some MacBook Air orders as "in transit" from China as of today. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini should follow suit soon, as all three Macs with the M1 chip are slated to launch on the same day.Apple says the M1 chip delivers up to 3.5x faster system performance, up to 6x faster graphics performance, and up to 15x faster machine learning, while enabling battery life up to 2x longer than previous-generation Macs. The chip features an 8-core CPU, up to an 8-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, unified memory architecture, I/O, and more all in one.

Impressively, benchmark results show that the new MacBook Air with the M1 chip outperforms the high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro.

The new Macs are available to order on Apple.com and through the Apple Store app. Pricing starts at $1,299 for the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, $999 for the new MacBook Air, and a lowered $699 for the new Mac mini in the United States.

(Thanks, Fatih!)

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"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?

I'm guessing shipments have been at sea for some time and are approaching the US west coast.

Edit: After searching, I now see that Apple ships iPhones & laptops via air. I wonder if there are any products that they ship via sea (maybe a lower volume product that doesn't tie up as much working capital)?
 
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julesme said:
"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple of days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?
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havent you ordered an iPhone on launch day? my phone went from china to alaska to kentucky to my front door here in california in 24 hours
 
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julesme said:
"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple of days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?
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Usually gets to Alaska overnight and then to the next sorting center.
 
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I'm waiting for the new iMac, but I would wait anyway to see the impact of 8GB of memory vs 16GB on benchmarks.
I remember how impactful it was on the 10th-gen Intel processors.

You gotta say, the 16GB upgrade is pretty damn expensive. I guess you pay for the RAM miniaturization.
 
Will the M1 Macs be on display at the Apple Store this week? I would love to go check them out in person.
 
Kind of wish I purchased the MBA yesterday, order dates seemed to have slipped now. The MBA was a curiosity though and not a true need. I seriously need to wait for the iMac. Can’t wait for user impressions!
 
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julesme said:
"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple of days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?

I have to assume shipments have been at sea for some time and are already approaching the US west coast.
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Apple flies them via Alaska and it’s a fast process — 1-2 days. I doubt they pay the same rates you or I would — they probably buy-out the entire plane weeks in advance from UPS months in advance at a relatively bargain rate.
 
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Thinking of testing the Mac Mini which should have the biggest thermal headroom and therefore the highest performance of the three M1 devices. Only holdup is the outrageous DRAM and SSD upgrade prices. Apple charges $200 for +8GB DRAM and $800 for 2TB SSD when I paid $149 for Crucial 32GB kit and $250 for 2TB Samsung EVO 970 Plus. Maybe I should hold off and see comparison review of Mac Mini and $65 Raspberry Pi 4 8GB DRAM. M1 should be faster but how much faster and available software compared to Linux for ARM.
 
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julesme said:
"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple of days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?

I have to assume shipments have been at sea for some time and are already approaching the US west coast.
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I suspect Apple has a contract with some carrier to bring them to either SEA or SFO. From there they hit the normal US carrier distribution network (UPS, FedEx, etc). No matter what, from the time they go wheels up in China, they are 15 hours from the states, and nothing anyone can do to abbreviate that flight time. If FedEx is the main contract carrier, you can add 2-5 additional days over UPS and the vast possibility of lost frieght to the equation.
 
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Freeangel1 said:
See. AMD catching up to the M1 already. Big mistake to ditch Windows support and be on your own.


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even the new CEO said that for Microsoft now, the future is services and cloud services...windows as you see, for some year, is less and less important for Microsoft
And the comparison is very very strange and so so little info...is just a marketing...we know how windows world works
I bought an laptop to test if their claims are true like 18 h battery life and so on....and ....again...failed
 
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julesme said:
"UPS beginning to show orders...In transit from China as of today..."

Doesn't transit from China typically take more than just a couple of days? Surely Apple is not paying expedited air shipping for a product whose release was planned many months in advance?

I have to assume shipments have been at sea for some time and are already approaching the US west coast.
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My AW6 took 2 days from in transit in China until it reach my door in Sweden. The steps it took was Shenzen (sp?) -> shanghai -> korea -> netherlands -> my door in those two days.
 
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Freeangel1 said:
See. AMD catching up to the M1 already. Big mistake to ditch Windows support and be on your own.


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The Ryzen is the freak outlier, as AMD always has been. I remember the "faster than everything" flop that was the Thunderbird CPU. With all of that said, AMD has done a whole lot right with the Ryzen 5+ series, and were it not for a few relationship restrictions I'd get a Laptop with that CPU. AMD is still denying all of the Windows 10 issues, this in spite of the tens of thousands of screen shots showing the crashes. I'll stick with Intel and soon enough the M1 in the Mac mini.
 
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