macbook availability - Regent Street London Store

[machappymeal]

Could some UK based macrumor forumites give me a bit of help?

Am heading to the Regent Street Store in the next two weeks (gathering up enough money for a huge spending splurge😱 ) and although I could ring them nearer the time I would like any members who have just been/are going in the next two weeks to let me know what the stock levels of the macbook are like🙂 . In particular I will be buying the basic white macbook with a possibility of also buying the top of the range black one😱 .

As it will be a six hour round trip for me I would appreciate it if members could post here on the stock situation/when they were there/what the store had.

I would hate to turn up to experience lack of macbook fever🙁

Thanks for your help🙂

 

[robbieduncan]

A guy in the office bought one last Saturday. He went in to play with them and they had them in stock. Went out to have a think about it/grab some lunch and when he came back they were out of stock!

So he went down the road and bought one elsewhere...

 

[billtanderson]

Macbook availabliity - Regent Street

I popped in after work on Tuesday 24th and they were out of all models.

I rang the shop at 11:30am on Wednesday 25th and they had some more in. I got to the shop at 12:30 and they only had a few black models left - I saw 2 go while I was getting mine.

So they seem to be restocking but selling out again pretty quick.

Your best bet is to ring them, but also I think if you can get there in the morning on a weekday you'll have a much better chance.with it so

I am very happy so far.

 

[thequicksilver]

Could some UK based macrumor forumites give me a bit of help?

Am heading to the Regent Street Store in the next two weeks (gathering up enough money for a huge spending splurge😱 ) and although I could ring them nearer the time I would like any members who have just been/are going in the next two weeks to let me know what the stock levels of the macbook are like🙂 . In particular I will be buying the basic white macbook with a possibility of also buying the top of the range black one😱 .

As it will be a six hour round trip for me I would appreciate it if members could post here on the stock situation/when they were there/what the store had.

I would hate to turn up to experience lack of macbook fever🙁

Thanks for your help🙂

Ring them and ask them to put it on one side for you, explain that you're coming from a long way away, they surely won't say no.

And a three hour trip - ouch. Are you sure that the Birmingham/Manchester/Sheffield stores aren't closer to you? 😉

 

[machappymeal]

Ring them and ask them to put it on one side for you, explain that you're coming from a long way away, they surely won't say no.

And a three hour trip - ouch. Are you sure that the Birmingham/Manchester/Sheffield stores aren't closer to you? 😉

In theory Birmingham would be closer but I do fancy the overall "London Day Out" if you see what I mean.

That's a good point about asking them to put one aside for me. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks things might settle down stock wise? I hope so.

Please keep posting anyone who goes there over the weekend/next week.

Many thanks for your help so far🙂

 

[machappymeal]

A guy in the office bought one last Saturday. He went in to play with them and they had them in stock. Went out to have a think about it/grab some lunch and when he came back they were out of stock!

So he went down the road and bought one elsewhere...

Robbie, where else round there could he obtain one? Micro Anvika or whatever they are called? It might be worth me having another option just in case.

 

[robbieduncan]

Robbie, where else round there could he obtain one? Micro Anvika or whatever they are called? It might be worth me having another option just in case.

Not sure on Micro Anvika's stock, but yes you could go there. He actually went to Selfridges which is nearby.

 

[machappymeal]

And Selfridges had them in stock?😱

 

[Icewind]

Hey machappmeal,

I was in the Regents Street store last Thursday after I finished here in the office. It was about 6:30 - 7pm and the place was absolutely mobbed. They have about 10 Macbooks out on display (just inside the door) for playing with. I have a 12" iBook and a 15" Powerbook G4, but quite fancy getting a 2Ghz Macbook in white. I decided "what the feck.. I'm gettin one", so I queued up watched 2 other people walking out with theirs and when I got to the uber-babe at the counter, she told me that she had just sold the last of the 2Ghz white ones, but that she still had the low-end Macbook and the top-end black one... Doh! I can only afford the £899 at max for "another" Mac, and really want the 2Ghz white, so I decided to leave it right now and check again in a few weeks.

I plan to head in there just for fun tomorrow night... I'll let you know what the Apple dudes are syaing about stocking levels.

 

[robbieduncan]

And Selfridges had them in stock?😱

At that time, yes!

 

[machappymeal]

Hey machappmeal,

I was in the Regents Street store last Thursday after I finished here in the office. It was about 6:30 - 7pm and the place was absolutely mobbed. They have about 10 Macbooks out on display (just inside the door) for playing with. I have a 12" iBook and a 15" Powerbook G4, but quite fancy getting a 2Ghz Macbook in white. I decided "what the feck.. I'm gettin one", so I queued up watched 2 other people walking out with theirs and when I got to the uber-babe at the counter, she told me that she had just sold the last of the 2Ghz white ones, but that she still had the low-end Macbook and the top-end black one... Doh! I can only afford the £899 at max for "another" Mac, and really want the 2Ghz white, so I decided to leave it right now and check again in a few weeks.

I plan to head in there just for fun tomorrow night... I'll let you know what the Apple dudes are syaing about stocking levels.

Thanks Icewind, please let me know.

 

[uchuff]

I bought mine on Sunday, at the time the chap said they had all 3 models in stock - no mini-DVI to VGA cables though.

EDIT:
I got a 2GHz white 🙂