As I posted earlier, my order for a 17" MBP back on May 27 has been on hold and recently had its expected ship date set to "June 1-June 5", leading me to believe that they will be included with some updates. I know that the LEDs supposedly purchased were for the 15.4" model so I am not too optimistic about my chances for that. I've read a lot of ideas on here, but what is everyone's opinion about what might be included on an update of the 17"MBP? Thanks for your input. Tuesday is fast approaching.
On the website it says 24 hours. And depending on your shipping method, about 4-5 business days to delivery.
However, in my case, I ordered a MBP on the 29th of May, and my final delivery date was pushed back to Wednesday, June 6th, even though I orderd 2 day shipping.
Infact, a lot of people who ordered theirs as much as 5 days before us all have the same delivery date as me; further evidence they're wating to give us our MBPs in fear the specs of the "new" ones they give us will leak before the update.
From my personal experience, this is Apple's method of operation (I've had it happen twice).
Since their pricing model doesn't really change, they send you the same priced machine, with the new goodies to match what you paid. OK, were told you were going to pay since they don't charge you until it ships.
When my orders were placed on hold, the "reason" I was given was a "backlog". When the update was announced, I got my shipping confirmation and the specs of the order were then updated.
Same price, just more machine.
If you have BTO options, they bump those too, to keep the price you paid the same.
For example if you upped your hard drive to the next biggest one above the stock size, like if 120G was stock and you bumped it to 160G for example, and then the stock went from 120G to 160G with the first level upgrade was 200G (for the same money), you would end up with a 200G drive since you paid for a BTO option.
So, in short, yes.
If there is an update coming you'll get the new specs. If the delay is by some off chance related to supply and there isn't an update on the immediate horizon, then you would still get what you ordered once the supply is available.
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What happened to MULTIMEDIA??? Are you still out there???
I was wondering the same thing.
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If we indeed are looking at an update here, then it won't be in similar fashion as the MB bump last month.
I can't see any logical possibilities where there wouldn't be an update in the platform tech, since the MB's are pretty close in proc/drive size to the Pro line now.
LED's, I have no idea. To me it doesn't make sense for the 15's to have it but not the "top of the line" 17's. But who knows for sure?
One thing I do think though, is that for every "leak" we read there's 10 we don't know about. So maybe they did get a bunch of 15" LED's, and maybe they got a bunch of 17" LED's we didn't hear about. Or maybe they weren't 15" after all. I guess we'll see.
However, I'll join the line with funds in hand as I am now in need of a new portable. Being able to drop 2x2G chips in it would be nice, but then again so would 2x4G chips as well (because I could
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I'm just going to wait and see what happens, and go from there.
