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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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What size screen MacBook Pro (2021) did you order?

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Jinjin said:
Now an update on ups my choice! She’s coming home on Friday

Was due 8-15th dec when ordered, went down to 3-10 a few days after and now coming to my door on Friday 26th!

Love apple with their continued habit of beating order expectation dates! 12 days before the original earlier date I was given when ordered :)
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Woo hoo! Can't wait. It's almost home. :D
 
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I won’t delete this notification until I have a shipment notice! It’s the only thing I have to hold on to! Haha

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bige12 said:
I think I figured - Fedex fly directly from Shanghai to Memphis, TN, if you have Fedex and you click on Shipment facts and you see the this- Look at weight section that is alot of Lbs for 1 laptop so I think I found some of others peoples laptops that could be with mine. I think Fedex dose not use there own planes they use another like a third party alines since I don't really see any Fedex planes in Shanghai

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    ID Shipment


    Number here click on it (master) and it will bring you to
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My FedEx shows the same dates but different weight, so our laptops will hopefully be on the same plane VERY soon *fingers crossed*
Busy time of year for air freight it seems ...
 
Jinjin said:
unfortunately its just a typical Thursday for us :)

will be good to finally get my hands on it.. only had the original BTO a day or so before packing it back up to return.
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Woo hoo! An exciting day for you. I can't wait. I'm glad you are receiving it in the month of November.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving said:
Lol, I agree but it's on a FedEx truck in my city. I don't think FedEx will keep my package until the 29th in the truck. My fingers are crossed it gets delivered today.
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Haha even better! Some way to over promise then surprise you!
 
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Not sure what is going on with my order..says its supposed to arrive between november 24th through dec 2nd..just the regular standard macbook pro 14 inch, just says processing..no movement since the day I ordered it, card has not been charged
 
bige12 said:
My was shipped on Nov. 16 - I just hope it gets here either Wednesday or Friday since I think Fedex is not working Thanksgiving Day

this was my configuration
  • Apple M1 Max chip with 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine
  • Accessory Kit
  • 140W USB-C Power Adapter
  • Three Thunderbolt 4 ports, HDMI port, SDXC card slot, MagSafe 3 port
  • 64GB unified memory
  • 1TB SSD storage
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wow!! I have a question for people buying macbooks with more than 16Gb RAM, what do you do with 32/64GB RAM ? is it even needed? what kind of heavy work do you do on your machine that it requires so much of RAM?
 
skol said:
wow!! I have a question for people buying macbooks with more than 16Gb RAM, what do you do with 32/64GB RAM ? is it even needed? what kind of heavy work do you do on your machine that it requires so much of RAM?
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For me (I have 64GB on order) I run 4 VMs on top of MacOS with 8GB RAM alloted for each. Essentially leaving me 32GB for MacOS. I run test builds with 2VMs on Linux. CAd design with Rhino on 1. OBS streaming on the last one.
 
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hovscorpion12 said:
For me (I have 64GB on order) I run 4 VMs on top of MacOS with 8GB RAM alloted for each. Essentially leaving me 32GB for MacOS. I run test builds with 2VMs on Linux. CAd design with Rhino on 1. OBS streaming on the last one.
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wow that's awesome, but do you use all this for work or personal things? I mean I am trying to understand why do you need 4 VMs?
 
skol said:
wow!! I have a question for people buying macbooks with more than 16Gb RAM, what do you do with 32/64GB RAM ? is it even needed? what kind of heavy work do you do on your machine that it requires so much of RAM?
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So, I originally ordered the 16GB ram 14" M1 Pro on launch day. Got it, used it, awesome. But I did some research, watched videos, did some of my own testing and even having several tabs open in the browser (which I do often), some decent sized programs, and high level multitasking, I was already using the swap. Granted, swap on these machines is so fast you wouldn't even really notice, but it's still not part of the unified memory (of which the graphics also share). As programs get larger over the years, pretty much normal every day stuff will go over 16GB and use the swap. If you want a safety zone for unified memory (especially since it is shared for the GPU) then I would say 32GB is the moderate to heavy user sweet spot if you have the money. If you don't have the money, then 16GB will be absolutely fine and you won't even really notice any difference. But with the 32, if you ever do need it there down the road, it will be there. These machines are not upgradable. So considering the high cost, a few hundred more is worth it so that you have the completeness you need. Just my opinion.

So, I returned my 16GB and upgraded to the 32GB (same 14" and 1TB ssd). Had to wait an extra month for it, but worth it to me if I am going to keep this for a few years. Just got charged. Apple's delivery dates are happening way sooner than expected.
 
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mgadoury said:
So, I originally ordered the 16GB ram 14" M1 Pro on launch day. Got it, used it, awesome. But I did some research, watched videos, did some of my own testing and even having several tabs open in the browser (which I do often), some decent sized programs, and high level multitasking, I was already using the swap. Granted, swap on these machines is so fast you wouldn't even really notice, but it's still not part of the unified memory (of which the graphics also share). As programs get larger over the years, pretty much normal every day stuff will go over 16GB and use the swap. If you want a safety zone for unified memory (especially since it is shared for the GPU) then I would say 32GB is the moderate to heavy user sweet spot if you have the money. If you don't have the money, then 16GB will be absolutely fine and you won't even really notice any difference. But with the 32, if you ever do need it there down the road, it will be there. These machines are not upgradable. So considering the high cost, a few hundred more is worth it so that you have the completeness you need. Just my opinion.

So, I returned my 16GB and upgraded to the 32GB (same 14" and 1TB ssd). Had to wait an extra month for it, but worth it to me if I am going to keep this for a few years. Just got charged. Apple's delivery dates are happening way sooner than expected.
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Thanks for the explanation and review ?
 
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My MacBook package has no movement from last 4 days, I call UPS almost everyday, today when I called them they said its stuck because they are having lots of pending items and due to covid there is lot of restriction and flights are way less than normal etc... so for everyone its been delayed :( But, I don't see this issue for anyone else who are getting from UPS, may be that's my luck because I am so impatient lol! and when I asked apple yesterday, they said its departed from China already on 18th nov :(
Also, I asked UPS about where will it land first after departing from Chengdu China, he said it will directly come to kentucky from China, any idea how can I track UPS flights from chedgu, China to Kentucky, USA?
 
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