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MacBook Pro Now Shipping Plus Speed Bump

BHS1983 said:
OK, I ordered the following on Jan 10, 2006 at 12:34 PM PST:
MBPRO 15/1.83 CTO
1GB 667 DDR2- 1 SO-DIMM
100GB Serial ATA Drive@7200rpm
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600-256M
BkLit Keyboard/Mac OS
Airport Extreme Card&BT

At this minute, my Order Status reads:
Estimated Shipped By Feb 15, 2006
Estimated Delivered By Feb 21, 2006

So I'm assuming that I'm getting a 2.0GHz system that will ship tomorrow.

My question is about upgrading that 2.0GHz chip to the 2.16GHz chip. First, do people think the performance boost will be significant/noticeable? Second, has anyone tried upgrading their already-ordered 2.0GHz machine to a 2.16GHz model? How much does that delay shipping? Is it easy to do?

Just wanted to hear some thoughts, as I'm unsure how to proceed. I appreciate the 2.0GHz bump-up, but I'm a little tempted to always have the fastest available. Thanks.
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You'll get an e-mail today that your order status will be updated by tomorrow to show a February 28th ship date. I ordered the same spec machine.

As for 2.0 versus 2.16, I am in the same line of thinking as you are. I'm already spending the money, so what's the REAL cost to me? Well, it seems that I will get up to 8% more speed for 12% more money. The bottom line is that anything less than 25% will be largely unnoticed in the UI. If you are doing rendering of movies, 3d, or ripping of DVD's and you save 8% of your time .... maybe it's worth it. But overall I think it's bragging rights, and it's totally up to you if that's worth it for $300. It might be.
 
Pushed Back? How?

I ordered my MBP literally WITHIN THE HALF HOUR after the site was changed and the keynote ended (Jan 10, 11:03 to be exact). I ordered the 1.83Ghz model (now 2.0Ghz).

Original Ship date - Feb 15th
Original Deliv Date - Feb 23

NEW ship date - Feb 28
NEW Deliv Date - March 7

I'm gettin screwed pretty bad. :(

I would be angry, but 2.0Ghz is gonna kick so much ass
 
i doubt 95% of users will notice the difference between 1.83 and 2.0.

apple had to know about this weeks ago. i wish they would have told us.
 
applemax said:
:confused: you've lost me...
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I'm trying to work out a pattern here. We don't know **** about what is getting delayed and what isn't, if location matters or if it doesn't, if when you purchased your system matters or if it doesn't, and the whole mix in between.

Edit: And it looks like everyone is screwed. Kinda hard to thank Apple when they are pushing back your laptop by half a month. :(
 
macuser17 said:
I ordered my MBP literally WITHIN THE HALF HOUR after the site was changed and the keynote ended (Jan 10, 11:03 to be exact). I ordered the 1.83Ghz model (now 2.0Ghz).

Original Ship date - Feb 15th
Original Deliv Date - Feb 23

NEW ship date - Feb 28
NEW Deliv Date - March 7

I'm gettin screwed pretty bad. :(

I would be angry, but 2.0Ghz is gonna kick so much ass
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The first Apple notebook which is more than 2.0 Ghz
 
2.0GHz+ Macbook Pro! Yay :D

Now all it needs is Firewire 800 and a DL burner. :p
 
i don't understand why apple waited. it's not like this came as some suprise late last night or something. they are too big of a company for something like that to happen. however they handle this like some small mom and pop. if i would have just never gotten a ship date, that would have been fine because it is a pre-order and that is the way it works. putting out a ship date was stupid. and i'd bet they knew all along that nothing would ship, so in essence the Feb 15 date was a lie.

and i could care less about the 170 extra mhz, i mean oh wooh! 170? that's too kind.
 
The ship dates in the email are "blanket" dates

According to Apple reps all email announcements will have a basic "ship by" date. Over the next 24hrs the status of each computer will be updated in the system. Check your status on Wednesday.
 
From our friend Bob on the Apple Boards...

Well, Dan, I guess I broke my own rule and made two calls to Apple today. Since I made my change to the 2.16 at 8:10am Central, I figured in all the confusion at that early hour, there may have been some "changes" since then. Reading from an email she had taped to her monitor, Nadeena said:

"Please inform customers that most due dates listed on web order status are eroneous. Even those that have changed today. Please tell customers that the official notification will come via email sometime in the next 24 hours. Most customers will receive two emails: One about the upgrade. Two, about their actual estimated shipping date. Remind customers this is an estimate! Also, please let customers know that changing an order to the 2.16 chip will NOT change their ship date."

So, there you have it. I hope "this" is accurate - and yet, it all makes sense to me. I'm happy in any case.

Bob
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This is just gets better and better.
 
2.16 adds 3-4 weeks according to Apple.

Just called Apple Cust. Service to check on my order (hadn't received the email yet.)

I ordered a 1.83GHz CTO with 7200 RPM hard drive.

When you call customer service, you get a recording telling you that all orders will be automatically upgraded by one 'speed grade' (my term.) Meaning 1.67 becomes 1.83, 1.83 becomes 2.0. I then went through to a service wonk, who said that if I wanted to upgrade my order to the 2.16 GHz model, it would add three to four weeks. Since it appears that it will already be bumped by two weeks, that's just too much for me. While the extra 167 MHz would be nice, it's not worth the gamble. My old PowerBook is dying quickly enough as it is.

And he did confirm that new shipping dates would likely not be the 15th for custom orders, but that "we are working to get them shipped out as quickly as we can." He also confirmed that upping to 2.16 GHz would NOT move you to the 'back of the line' (as I phrased it,) but that there would basically be a new queue for 2.16 GHz orders...
 
Just got my email from the UK store.

And it's wrong!

It's subject says Your Apple Store order W{V-AST_WEB_ORDER_NUMBER} (oops) and . We have automatically upgraded your MacBook Pro from a 1.67GHz processor to a 1.83GHz processor at no additional cost!

Shame I ordered a 1.83, not a 1.67, and am now expecting a 2.0 :eek:

I'm sure it'll sort itself out soon, otherwise I'll have to call Apple I suppose :rolleyes:
 
robbieduncan said:
Just got my email from the UK store.

And it's wrong!

It's subject says Your Apple Store order W{V-AST_WEB_ORDER_NUMBER} (oops) and . We have automatically upgraded your MacBook Pro from a 1.67GHz processor to a 1.83GHz processor at no additional cost!

Shame I ordered a 1.83, not a 1.67, and am now expecting a 2.0 :eek:

I'm sure it'll sort itself out soon, otherwise I'll have to call Apple I suppose :rolleyes:
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That's the conversion rate of US Ghz to UK Ghz. :p
 
chrisk said:
my stock 1.83 order hasn't changed.

i'd rather have my 1.83 delivered friday than have a 2.0 delivered in march, if the new Feb 28 date i was told is true. .17ghz is worthless.
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I have a .4 ghz computer, it's all relative now, isn't it? :D

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iMac G3 400 MHz
 
SiliconAddict said:
Didn't ask. It'll ship when it ships. Couple things we can get out of this announcement. I think we now know the main reason why Apple didn't release battery life specs. Also I think it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that the MBP's ARE ZIF socketed.
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How very nice of you to only be concerned about YOUR laptop shipping as if I along with others who ordered a 1.67 are all going to be very POed to know that other people will recieve their laptop first for some stupid reason.
 
A Valentine's Day Mac-ssacre...

While it's nice that Apple is upping the machines for free, it's not good that people may have to wait 2 more weeks (it still seems not exactly clear to everyone what's going on, which is another bad thing). People should have the choice whether or not they want the slower machine right away, or the faster machine later.

Then again, as others have said, I'm sure it wasn't last night that this was known. They very likely have known this for a while, and they probably never planned on shipping 1.67 machines at all. Knowing Apple they were either trying to be cute and do something special for Valentine's Day, or just in general trying to surprise people by announcing it at the very last minute, keeping it hush-hush as usual.

People generally are not happy when they preorder something and the ship date is delayed. Certainly Apple must have known that a lot of people would be angry even if they are getting a better machine. Hopefully the boost will be worth it once the machines do arrive for those who have to wait.
 
Shipping Date Pushed Back...

Hey guys,

In the wake of the whole speed upgrade and the change of est. U.S. shipping dates, I decided to log in and check my order status. On Jan. 11th at 8AM, I ordered a 1.67 GHz MacBook Pro CTO with a 100GB 5400 rpm hard drive... up until today my est. shipping date was Feb. 15 with an est. delivery of Feb. 23rd... now it is an est. shipping date Feb. 28 with an arrival of March 7th. :(
Hopefully this is just an over-estimate, and I will get it before this date.
 
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