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New Apple TV 4K Orders Begin Shipping With May 21 Delivery

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The new Apple TV 4K will begin arriving to customers this Friday, May 21, and ahead of time, orders are now beginning to be marked as "shipped" on Apple's online store. Track your order with others in the MacRumors forums.

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As of Wednesday afternoon, most of the Apple TV 4K orders that have been marked as "shipped" appear to be in Canada, but orders in other countries should start shipping within the next day. Many customers who ordered the new Siri Remote separately are also seeing a May 21 delivery estimate, but we've yet to see these orders begin shipping at this time.

The new Apple TV 4K features a faster A12 Bionic chip, support for high frame rate HDR and Dolby Vision video, and a redesigned Siri Remote with a physical clickpad that is also touch-enabled for swipe gestures that Apple TV users are familiar with. The outer ring of the clickpad supports a circular gesture for finding a scene in a movie or show.

Priced at $179 with 32GB of storage or $199 with 64GB of storage, the new Apple TV 4K will also be on display and available for purchase at Apple Store locations starting May 21, although supplies may be limited on launch day.

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Will the faster chip and slightly more memory finally be able to load the Library tab? Or will it time out, as it has for years?
 
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Ordered mine in the first 5 minutes and I'm in Arizona. Still showing preparing to ship as it's been doing for 4 days now.
 
Hodar1 said:
Has anyone ordered the larger memory AppleTV, and if so - did you ever use the extra memory?
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Think the only two uses I've read about that necessitate the extra storage are gaming and wanting to download lots of aerial screensavers.

I checked storage usage on my ATV 4 before preordering the new model and each streaming app (Netflix, YouTube TV, HBO Max etc) was only using like 100-200 megs. And it's my understanding that tvOS probably takes up like 3 gigs and the 4K aerial screensavers like a gig each. I'm pretty comfortable with keeping my 32GB order.
 
Hodar1 said:
Has anyone ordered the larger memory AppleTV, and if so - did you ever use the extra memory?
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I ordered the larger-memory ATV4K. Never used the extra memory. Never came close.

I still ordered the larger memory option for the Gen 2, because even though I knew I'd probably never need it, $20 was worthwhile 'insurance' against a future feature/option/app that made me regret not getting it.

If you're on the fence don't bother with the bigger memory. Unless you're a nutter like me.
 
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Payment was taken for my order for a new remote today. It now says 'Preparing for Shipment' in the app and the delivery date is the 27th May.
 
MrTemple said:
Oh Jony, I cannot wait to ditch your remote.

$100 says that 'designer' never, ever watches TV.
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you put designer in quotes as if somehow your opinion invalidates his skill and talent. the man is globally recognized for his design, and was given a knighthood for it. your lack of appreciation for something as meaningless as a remote does not change this. at all.

on the other hand, i'm still preparing to ship here and i ordered at launch. hoping to see this change or UPS update me a tracking info via app soon. thinking to take my chance checking out the apple store app early on friday for store pickup if this doesnt ship for friday.
 
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I ordered right after it became available. Still showing preparing for shipping. May 21-27. SoCal
 
Eorlas said:
you put designer in quotes as if somehow your opinion invalidates his skill and talent. the man is globally recognized for his design, and was given a knighthood for it. your lack of appreciation for something as meaningless as a remote does not change this. at all.

on the other hand, i'm still preparing to ship here and i ordered at launch. hoping to see this change or UPS update me a tracking info via app soon. thinking to take my chance checking out the apple store app early on friday for store pickup if this doesnt ship for friday.
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I put "designer" in quotes because I don't think you can call yourself a "designer" if you are merely an "aesthetic designer". Functional design is critical to good design. And Apple's hardware and software products during Jony Ive's reign at the top (when he had fewer checks against his vision than when he was lower down) show a consistent, steady decline in functional design. Something that Apple is only just now recovering from.

And no amount of laurels from the aesthetic design community is going to change my opinion that Jony's Apple products took a big step backward in functional design.

The ENORMOUS amount of backlash across their line in this regard indicates to me that I am not alone in this.

And no doubt that backstep and that backlash was the reason he was pushed out. Laurels or not.
 
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MrTemple said:
I put "designer" in quotes because I don't think you can call yourself a "designer" if you are merely an "aesthetic designer". Functional design is critical to good design. And Apple's products during Jony Ive's reign at the top (when he had fewer checks against his vision than when he was lower down) show a consistent, steady decline in functional design. Something that Apple is only now just recovering from.

And no amount of laurels from the "aesthetic design" community is going to change my opinion on that.
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so long as you acknowledge it's opinion, and valued at absolutely not an ounce more than that. because i dont think you can define what a designer is by conjecture if indeed that is what they are.

regardless of how you "feel".
 
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Eorlas said:
so long as you acknowledge it's opinion, and valued at absolutely not an ounce more than that. because i dont think you can define what a designer is by conjecture if indeed that is what they are.

regardless of how you "feel".
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Thanks for policing my self-awareness that my posts on an internet forum are my opinion. 🙄
 
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Hodar1 said:
Has anyone ordered the larger memory AppleTV, and if so - did you ever use the extra memory?
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I have had the older 1080P one for 4-5 years, can’t remember, and I have never come close to filling it up storage wise. Even with games installed on it when I was trying out Apple Arcade.
 
Heelpir8 said:
Think the only two uses I've read about that necessitate the extra storage are gaming and wanting to download lots of aerial screensavers.

I checked storage usage on my ATV 4 before preordering the new model and each streaming app (Netflix, YouTube TV, HBO Max etc) was only using like 100-200 megs. And it's my understanding that tvOS probably takes up like 3 gigs and the 4K aerial screensavers like a gig each. I'm pretty comfortable with keeping my 32GB order.
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I wondered the same thing and contacted the developer of the Channels TV app. I asked if the additional memory would increase the length of live TV buffering that could be done. The reply was in the affirmative.
 
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