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I Ordered My Retina iMac High End What did you get?
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This thing is amazing and I'm one happy camper
Configuration: i7, 8 GB RAM, M295X, 256 GB SSD, Apple Care
Selected Shipping Option: Standard
Available Time to Ship: 7-10 days
Date/Time Ordered: Oct 29, 10 am PDT
Processing Items:
Preparing for Shipment: Nov 6, 11 am PDT
Shipped: Shanghai, China 11/07/2014 4:21 P.M. Origin Scan
Carrier/Estimated Delivery: Thursday, 11/13/2014, By End of Day
Received: 11/13/2014 2:01 P.M. Delivered - Sacramento, CA
Got the same configuration! Still waiting. You like it? Worth the wait over the base model?
October 30th. I should have done it the 2 days before when I was talking to the business team.
I should've done it 2 days earlier too but was to0 busy trying to butter my other half up before ordering it so he'd still talk to me when I told him how much it cost
Hi there. I ordered my iMac (i7, m295x, 256gb, 8gb) with VESA mount on October 31st. It has been prepared for shipping, but then the status changed back to processing.
It is still expected to arrive on November 17-20 though. I sure hope it will.
Greetings from Germany.
It is still expected to arrive on November 17-20 though. I sure hope it will.
Greetings from Germany.
I had the email yesterday to say mine would be dispatched 24th but the status on my order still says 17th -20th
I just got the dreaded e-mail, about 48 hours after my delivery date was changed from 13th - 19th to 23rd - 28th.
My order date was October 28th. It displays as 27th if I log in from the UK or US sites, due to the time differences. But it took until the afternoon of the 29th for the financing to clear. That places me in the queue at what seems to be just after the cut off point when orders started to be delayed.
Oh well... Not much to be done about it but wait.
Usually I avoid this sort of thing entirely by ordering as soon as possible after release, or pre-ordering if possible. Even if supplies are tight, that usually means you can avoid problems like this. However, this time I was dithering about whether to order now or wait until next year. This is my first iMac, and my second Mac — the first being the original retina MacBook Pro. I've been waiting for a retina iMac before investing in a new desktop, so there was never any doubt I'd get this machine — it was just a question of when.
After more than two years of the retina display on the MacBook Pro, I'm really excited to see it on a nice big screen. I find that my 15" retina display is better than the 24" monitor sitting behind it on my desk, so that I can actually see more detail on the smaller screen despite the size. Retina really has spoiled me in that regard.
Whatever the bottleneck in production is, I hope Apple does indeed get it sorted out according to the new schedules they're pushing on all of us. It's a pain having to wait, and yes I check my order status more times a day than seems reasonable, but it'll all be okay once the machines start moving again.
Fingers crossed.
One other thing — my delivery estimate only changed when it hit the first date of the original projection. Did anyone else notice this? It may be that they only update the status when your order hits its first projected delivery date.
My order date was October 28th. It displays as 27th if I log in from the UK or US sites, due to the time differences. But it took until the afternoon of the 29th for the financing to clear. That places me in the queue at what seems to be just after the cut off point when orders started to be delayed.
Oh well... Not much to be done about it but wait.
Usually I avoid this sort of thing entirely by ordering as soon as possible after release, or pre-ordering if possible. Even if supplies are tight, that usually means you can avoid problems like this. However, this time I was dithering about whether to order now or wait until next year. This is my first iMac, and my second Mac — the first being the original retina MacBook Pro. I've been waiting for a retina iMac before investing in a new desktop, so there was never any doubt I'd get this machine — it was just a question of when.
After more than two years of the retina display on the MacBook Pro, I'm really excited to see it on a nice big screen. I find that my 15" retina display is better than the 24" monitor sitting behind it on my desk, so that I can actually see more detail on the smaller screen despite the size. Retina really has spoiled me in that regard.
Whatever the bottleneck in production is, I hope Apple does indeed get it sorted out according to the new schedules they're pushing on all of us. It's a pain having to wait, and yes I check my order status more times a day than seems reasonable, but it'll all be okay once the machines start moving again.
Fingers crossed.
One other thing — my delivery estimate only changed when it hit the first date of the original projection. Did anyone else notice this? It may be that they only update the status when your order hits its first projected delivery date.
I just finally got the dreaded delay email. Ordered on 10/30. Now expected delivery range is Nov 26-Dec 1 w/ Expedited.
Config: 4Ghz i7 / 8gb / 512gb SSD / 295x.
When I spoke to Apple earlier in the week, the rep I spoke to hinted that the screen components were on short supply.
HINT: call apple and use this delay to get expedited shipping to your order for free. Otherwise, if you already paid for it... call up and complain and they'll refund you the $30 expedited charge and STILL ship it expedited.
Config: 4Ghz i7 / 8gb / 512gb SSD / 295x.
When I spoke to Apple earlier in the week, the rep I spoke to hinted that the screen components were on short supply.
HINT: call apple and use this delay to get expedited shipping to your order for free. Otherwise, if you already paid for it... call up and complain and they'll refund you the $30 expedited charge and STILL ship it expedited.
I just called them and said that the delay is going to cause me major problems and asked if there was a way I could get it here quicker hoping they would then jump in and offer expedited shipping. The rep told me there was nothing they could do because the courier is the cause of the delay, they can't cope with the numbers.
I said 'oh, I was told it was a shortage of parts causing the delay' and she told me definitely not.
Someone somewhere isn't telling the truth
it's not a shipping problem. A shipping problem is 500,000 iphones trying to get out the door in 3 days. we're talking a few thousand machines maybe at most.
i dont think that rep was being truthful.
besides, if it was a shipping issue, you'd have a tracking number, it would be scanned, and it would be sitting on the ground, and not moving.
it's not a shipping issue.
i dont think that rep was being truthful.
besides, if it was a shipping issue, you'd have a tracking number, it would be scanned, and it would be sitting on the ground, and not moving.
it's not a shipping issue.
It sounds more like a lack of information than outright dishonesty. I'm sure they have a policy that they're not allowed to simply say, "I'm sorry, I don't know." And it seems equally likely that in many cases they won't actually know what's going on, so they can only speculate.
Let's face it, the people who answer the phone are likely thousands of miles away from the factory floor where these things are being assembled. And if they're struggling to fulfil orders I doubt they'll be making detailed reports all the time.
All of this to say, it's not really surprising if the phone operators haven't got a clue.
Let's face it, the people who answer the phone are likely thousands of miles away from the factory floor where these things are being assembled. And if they're struggling to fulfil orders I doubt they'll be making detailed reports all the time.
All of this to say, it's not really surprising if the phone operators haven't got a clue.
As soon as your iMac is configured you should be able to see the serial number In your "Apple support profile'