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MacBook Pro Shipments Still 'Seriously Delayed' By China Lockdowns

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Apple supplier Quanta's ability to manufacture MacBook Pro models at its Shanghai site remains seriously hampered despite the easing of lockdowns and resumption of production, reports DigiTimes.

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According to the Taiwan-based supply chain website, Quanta has so far only been able to restore around 30% production capacity at its Shanghai site since lockdowns ended last month.
Quanta is the sole assembler of Apple's 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros and the machines are primarily made at the ODM's Shanghai plant. Quanta vice chairman CC Leung on April 30 pointed out that the company's Shanghai plant has restored around 30% of its capacity and is eyeing to raise the percentage to 50% gradually.
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The report says many downstream assemblers are likely to have already resumed their production lines, but many still face insufficient supplies of components for the same reason.

Apple customers have been facing unusually protracted delivery times for several weeks due to limited production capacity caused by lockdowns and chip shortages. On Apple's online store in the U.S., all pre-configured purchase options for the 14-inch MacBook Pro and the 16-inch MacBook Pro currently show a delivery estimate of June 29 - July 14.

The same dates apply to the Mac Studio (20-Core/48-Core CPU/GPU), although the 10-Core/24-Core CPU/GPU configuration fares slightly better with a May 17 - May 24 delivery window. Availability for the MacBook Air, 24-inch iMac, and Mac mini are currently unaffected by the constraints, while Mac Pro depends on configuration options, but some do run into June.

According to DigiTimes, Apple has already switched its transportation from marine to air to shorten the shipment schedules in the face of disrupted logistics in China, but only a limited number of shipments have moved to air transportation, which is causing the current shortages.

Apple last month said that lockdown disruptions in China and silicon shortages will continue to make it difficult to make enough product to satisfy strong consumer demand as the year progresses, and this will ultimately affect Apple's June quarter revenue.

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NBAasDOGG said:
I don’t know what you’re talking about but these MacBooks are available in every single corner in EU.
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Hardly.

The standard 14-inch configuration? Ships July 1st through 19th. So, between 8 and 10 weeks.

Make a bunch of BTO changes to that like increasing the RAM, and it ships even later.

I ordered one on April 4th. The earliest it will ship is June 9th, 9 and a half weeks later.
 
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Leon Ze Professional said:
That is the question: Why have Apple put all their eggs in one basket when it comes to the Macbook Pro? What happen to diversification?
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Probably a question of volume. When you sell 200 million iPhones a year, you definitely want multiple suppliers.

But the 14-inch MacBook Pro? They sell about 25 million Macs a year total, and of those, the 14 is hardly the most popular. Probably something like 1-3 million a year. IOW, a hundredth of the iPhone volume.
 
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placed an order for a 16" MBP on 22nd March in UK. Was told would have delivery 2nd week of April. This has been pushed back twice, both times with no notification or reason given.

Now have a window of between 8th-20th Jun. I get the reason, but I don't like the handling of it, and don't feel like a valued customer dropping several thousand. I shouldn't have to go looking on third party news sites to find out why my order keeps getting pushed.
 
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spiderplantman said:
This has been pushed back twice, both times with no notification or reason given.
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Yeah, I also got no notification.

But I've heard of others who did get an e-mail with a notification apologizing. Strange.

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I get the reason, but I don't like the handling of it, and don't feel like a valued customer dropping several thousand.
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So I ordered both the MBP and some accessories (such as a Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter), which shipped much faster. So far, I was only charged for those. It seems Apple will only charge for the actual laptop once they're able to ship it.
 
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So I ordered both the MBP and some accessories (such as a Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapter), which shipped much faster. So far, I was only charged for those. It seems Apple will only charge for the actual laptop once they're able to ship it.
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They have always done this. They do the initial payment checks during processing, but you aren't actually charged until a couple of days before the item is shipped (to allow for payment clearance prior to releasing the item for shipping etc)
 
Some non-apple stores still have them in the UK for immediate collection and delivery. Curry's and John Lewis for example. Unfortunately/fortunately, I can get Student discount and need to wait for Apple store stock.
 
I've order 4 macbooks pro with max chip for work. Apple split the order in 2 with one month of ETA apart, each of those orders have been postponed by two months so far. I've received an info email each time : The delivery date has been modified (translated from French).
 
Scott Robinson said:
Some non-apple stores still have them in the UK for immediate collection and delivery. Curry's and John Lewis for example. Unfortunately/fortunately, I can get Student discount and need to wait for Apple store stock.
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KRCS have availability too, I think. They have online and some shops if you live in the Midlands or Hull. I mainly go in to try the stuff out as they've got it on demo like in an Apple Store and my nearest ones of those are miles away.

I never knew that we in the UK had so many authorised Apple alternative stores.
 
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