The only thing they did to improve it was to give back the esc key in the 2019 iteration!
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💻 👨💻 🌎 MacBook Pros 14-Inch and 16-Inch Pre-orders, Orders and Delivery Status Thread - USA & Other Countries (2021) 👩💻 💻 🌏
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I am wondering whether it is the higher spec MBPros or is it all versions? Mine too is the !6" 64GB/4TB SSD version ordered 2 minutes after ordering was enabled (timed at 14:02 US CDT, 12:02 PDT). At the time the 4TB versions had shorter delivery times than the 2 TB version, but now deliveries are being pushed out by quite large amounts which is a significant and unusual miss for Apple. Since they have not shipped, it has to be a manufacturing issue. The only positive thing from Apple today was the fact that my Watch 7 has shipped (Graphite SS, Black Milanese loop).
Reading all these reviews and comments on the new machines is rather frustrating when you cannot even buy the machines to try them out yourself. I noted that all the 3rd party suppliers are in the same boat with virtually every configuration on back order (I saw 1 silver 16GB, 256GB 16" at Adorama, if I remember correctly). The only versions I ever saw available were the base versions (16GB/256GBSSD M1 Pro) which begs the question as to why Apple initially stocked up on the base versions only.
We watch and wait.
Reading all these reviews and comments on the new machines is rather frustrating when you cannot even buy the machines to try them out yourself. I noted that all the 3rd party suppliers are in the same boat with virtually every configuration on back order (I saw 1 silver 16GB, 256GB 16" at Adorama, if I remember correctly). The only versions I ever saw available were the base versions (16GB/256GBSSD M1 Pro) which begs the question as to why Apple initially stocked up on the base versions only.
We watch and wait.
Mine has been in a similar state. UPS has been saying for a week delivery Thursday the 18th, but it's had no update since the 12th scan in China. Hopefully mine updates soon. I think if there's no update today or tomorrow, very unlikely it's coming the 18th. I'm kind of doubting I'll get it Thursday.
| 11/12/2021 3:25 P.M. | On the Way Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery. / The package will be forwarded to a UPS facility in the destination city. ZhengZhou, China |
The bottleneck certainly seems to be 11/12 since all of us seem to be (or have been) stuck at that date. Mine was supposed to deliver 11/17 per UPS but that clearly won't be happening, since it is still stuck in China and has been since 11/12. I'd be super happy if it arrived by Friday but I'm not holding my breath, even for that. There have been a couple of encouraging posts in this thread over the last 24 hours from people whose MBPs were in limbo since the 12th but are now showing movement. [Correction: It's all the same post from tombstone1881, quoted by different people. Sigh.] Here's hoping ours will soon show the same progress.
If a watched kettle never boils, does that mean a watched UPS tracking site never shows movement? ?
I've been lurking but felt like sharing the timeline for my MBP 16inch M1 Max, 4TB, 64gb. Ordered Oct 18
Delivery date was for today but I doubt it'll happen. Hopefully tomorrow...
Delivery is to East Coast Canada
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Delivery date was for today but I doubt it'll happen. Hopefully tomorrow...
Delivery is to East Coast Canada
Thanks for your viewpoint - hoping you get unstuck.
Perhaps a new trade agreement with China would help. Even last year with raging pandemic Apple shipping performed much better,
Perhaps a new trade agreement with China would help. Even last year with raging pandemic Apple shipping performed much better,
Good for you - congrats. Enjoy the new MBP!
My guess is because developers were disinterested in making use of it. It comes across as a gimmick, as mentioned above, but mostly because it was hardly utilized for anything truly productive. As a developer myself I completely loathed two things about the TouchBar; 1> already mentioned, other devs not capitalizing on it. If I were doing Mac Apps, I would have been all over it. 2> They took away my physical F keys and ESC key. WTF? Apple began waging a silent war on the Escape key a few years back and I’m not sure just what their deal is. Too many apps use it far too regularly. That’s my most hated thing about the iPad Pro that I spend hours and hours on. No Escape, so now CMD+~ is embedded in my muscle memory.
Anyway, Apple themselves didn’t seem fully willing to commit to TouchBar. In order for it to succeed they needed it on all their notebooks, not just the Pros and they needed it on their iMac keyboards as well, specifically the iMac Pro. And when their own apps fail to use it for any real function where it would be obvious, well… they killed it.
I'm still going to keep my July 2019 13inch intel Macbook Pro with touch bar- UpperCase has the keyboard cover now for the 14 & 16 M1 Pro/ M1 Max MacBooks
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Ordered the exact same configuration (16" Max/64GB, 4TB) morning of Oct 19th. Still stuck in the "Processing" purgatory. E-mailed Apple Education (bought thru my institution) and was told it'll ship today, it hasn't. Delivery date has not changed from Nov 19-25...
I have just changed to PTS 😁 deliver window of 15th-22nd nov…is there a way to get tracking number still using order number or phone number ? Can someone let me know
On FedEx, mine went from Shanghai, CN to Sennan-Shi, JP, directly to Memphis... and then it just sat there waiting for someone to move it thru customs.... and it's still there 11/13, 11/14, 11/15, 11/16... reached out to Apple to see if they could help, and nothing yet.
Spoke too soon
Travel History
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
7:12 PM MEMPHIS, TN International shipment release - Import
Congrats!!! 🎉 This is totally awesome news. When do you start and what will you be doing?
Just seems strange since I have seen flights for Fedex directly to Alaska from china
i was just looking for any fedex flights from china to japan and there are no flights
Keep the faith. That’s my config as well, ordered it within the first couple minutes on the Oct. 18 and it finally shipped Friday. FedEx actually picked up or received it saturday, took a bit to clear customs and leave Shanghai. It’s in Shennan-Shi Japan today. I’m supposed to have it in my hands on Friday.
Woo! Good news is. It is out of China so It will be traveling back to back. Hopefully you will receive your MacBook Pro before this weekend is up. Otherwise, it'll most likely in your hands before Thanksgiving
You can check under "Check by reference" via UPS. Make sure you have MyChoice UPS account set up. It will mostly likely to appear in a day or so.
Tracking | UPS - United States
Track one or multiple packages with UPS Tracking, use your tracking number to track the status of your package.
www.ups.com
Under Shipment Reference:
Enter your order number or the phone number and see if it shows up
Happy tracking. Keep us posted. Good luck!!!
Great observation. I have a feeling Apple will be re-introducing the Touch Bar in the future. They will say Touch ID is back
. It's not completely dead yet.
The most irritating thing about the touchbar (outside of the virtual Esc key) is that it would occasionally lag/crash so quickly changing the volume was a sort of hit and miss activity.
When it worked making adjustments to the volume level felt better than traditional keys because you could very quickly swipe in the direction you want for major adjustments or move it ever so slightly in micro increments. I still miss this aspect of the touchbar on my new MBP.
When it didn't work (i.e, when it crashed/lagged) it was very annoying because not only would a basic frequent task become unusable but the machine would somehow accidentally turn up the volume to max when the touchbar finally 'reboots' itself and comes back to life. Even when the thing was functioning correctly maxing out the volume accidentally could be accomplished by missing the 'X' button to close the volume slider and instead the machine would think you're pressing the rightmost portion of the volume slider.
Given that I was a teenager when I bought my first touchbar MacBook you can see why accidentally maxing out the volume on those very loud speakers might be a problem worth moaning about so to speak...
My second order from 10/19 with two 16/max/64/2tb configs just switched to preparing to ship. Original delivery was 11/18-11/26, now 12/14-12-21.
Interesting that I ordered three of the same machine... one on 10/18, and two on 10/19 and the 10/19 order is coming over 45 days after the 10/18 order.
They also hit the credit card 3x for over $12k in total when the order was under $10k.
Interesting that I ordered three of the same machine... one on 10/18, and two on 10/19 and the 10/19 order is coming over 45 days after the 10/18 order.
They also hit the credit card 3x for over $12k in total when the order was under $10k.
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Shipped; estimated delivery is Nov. 23rd. Original estimate was Dec. 2-9
