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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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In the same boat also with my 14 / M1 Max / 32 / 64GB / 1TB. Ordered 11/5, scheduled delivery 12/23-30. If it gets pushed back I will have to consider cancelling also. This is getting ridiculous.
Now and then is what I've seen. I'm not watching nearly as often as I was in October, but our local store did show some base models in stock during the last week.
I happened upon a 4TB 16" Max on launch day while picking up a base 14" Pro for my wife. I'd checked several times during launch day eve and then on launch day for a maxed out Max, but only while completing the checkout of the 14" did the 16" show as available. I think the Apple Store guy was more surprised than me to see that Max. I really thought there must be something wrong with me with how many times I refreshed that screen to see if an MBP I knew wouldn't be in the store was in the store. :?:
It was nice to see a top of the pile MBP in the store. My professional needs are not met by base models, so it'd been a long time since I bought a computer in the store.
My schedule had to be significantly reconfigured for the next few days as there was no way that thing was going to sit in a box while I had a couple dozen videos to edit and export.
Those who have been stuck since Wednesday saw movement today. Mine has been stuck since Thursday so crossing my fingers it leaves Memphis tomorrow
Mine seems stuck too - yet Fedex still says it'll be delivered before 1pm tomorrow. I thought maybe the last "In transit" message at 6:45am this morning meant it was on my way to my area (seattle), but no? Does this mean it still has to see the Clearance status? (It's fine if it takes a while - but stop lying to me and telling me it will deliver tomorrow - change the date already!!!)
Technically mine has been in Memphis since Wednesday. Saturday is just when it stopped giving any updates at all unfortunately...
Mine was delivered today. So ordered 10/21 Space Gray 14” fully loaded M1 Max, 32 core GPU, 64GB ram, 8 TB.
Now the long wait for the migration, a LOT of data, likely won’t be ready to play with until the morning. Really looking forward to video editing on this bad boy.
Now the long wait for the migration, a LOT of data, likely won’t be ready to play with until the morning. Really looking forward to video editing on this bad boy.
For those of ours in Memphis, I keep hoping there’s a chance each day it might have cleared customs, yet not show progress or the next scan until movement. So each night who knows, maybe suddenly some of us will see ours appear to have shipped towards us. Tomorrow is always possible!
I have the maxed out launch day Max with a 4TB SSD. I used a ThunderBolt cable to migrate from my 8TB 16" Intel MBP and it was shockingly fast. I left the migration to get a snack and came back to find it completed the better than 2TB migration in about 30 minutes, much quicker than I expected.
I don't know what version of Monterey these MBPs have on delivery these days, but mine was on 12.0. Getting that Max at the Apple Store on launch day was such a surprise that I'd not updated my Intel MBP yet as my preorder Max was still about a week away. I knew from my wife's 14" MBP M1 Pro that it was going to need an OS update after migration, so while the Intel was updating to Monterey I launched the Max into Recovery and updated it would be ready to go upon completion of the migration. The macOS updates finished at the same time though I started the Intel first. Both MBPs being on the same Monterey version may have helped with a fast and seamless migration.
Final Cut is amazing with my M1 Max! I can display a two hour Project timeline in the window and skim video seamlessly throughout the entire timeline. It is absolutely nuts especially after the FCP 10.6.1 version came out!
My initial exports through Compressor during the first week I had the Max seemed a bit disappointing at first, but the 14 hours of videos from 2013 had no rendered or optimized video in them, and had logos and color adjustments that made the entire timeline display as un-rendered. The timelines all played with minimal issues, and the exports were quicker than my 10 Core Xeon/Radeon Pro Vega 64 iMac Pro did them in a few tests after the projects completion. Hard to imagine a year ago that my beloved iMac Pro that was so fast and so beautiful would be outperformed by a battery powered portable computer!
The 2014 version of that video project was distributed on seven DVDs and took several work days to export from my 2013 Mac Pro in the format that I inserted into DVD Studio Pro to create DVDs, with menus and titles as identical as I could get them! :?: Good lord, I do not miss authoring DVDs at all!
Mine has the dreaded "International shipment release - Import" delayed message in Memphis since the 24th with delivery date "pending". I called Fedex and they said it's still in Shanghai since the 22nd. Anyone with similar delays? This wait has been excruciating. Order was placed on Oct 19th lol
Finally moved after no updates since the 26th when it was in Shanghai. It’s in Cincinnati now ! The only thing is they are delivering it to a friend likely on December 3rd who is coming to me mid December so I still have to wait. Ahahaha. I need this so bad, my old mac is literally bringing out sparks
When I got mine it was on MacOS 12.0.1.
Maybe what happens if its like built to order -and it ships from the factory - 1 build the computer and after it was done, they put it to the side and someone else picks one and installs MacOS on it - I think it just depends who dose it
- I was kind of surprised mine was already on 12.0.1.
I think my computer was built on November 1, 2021, I ordered it on October 19 and was delivered
Maybe what happens if its like built to order -and it ships from the factory - 1 build the computer and after it was done, they put it to the side and someone else picks one and installs MacOS on it - I think it just depends who dose it
- I was kind of surprised mine was already on 12.0.1.
I think my computer was built on November 1, 2021, I ordered it on October 19 and was delivered
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Another day, another clearance in progress scan.
I just think either custom are really backed up or like certain people don't pay attention to the news or watch Apple event so they don't really know what it is since the M1 Pro and M1 Max are brand new chips - since they have only been out for two months - I don't how customs clears these.
I'm not sure if this helped my package from getting through Memphis faster (still took about 4-5 days), but I called fedex and they started an investigation as to why it was taking so long. Maybe that forces them to locally track the package? Not sure, but can't hurt to do it. Give a call. I will be unboxing today and will post pictures.
Hey. I ordered mine on the 12th of November and the initial estimate was 9-16 December. I was charged on the 24th, it shipped on the 26th and is now due to be delivered on December 3rd. It depends on your spec I guess, but yeah there’s a chance it could be early.