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Time Capsule
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Mine just changed to "Prepared for shipment" as well. Ordered early Feb - going to Boston, MA.
My guess is that they all ship on Friday as planned.
I'm betting they are in retail stores next week on Wed or Thurs...
Things have usually arrived at the apple stores before preorders recieve their boxes.
Just talked to another apple store- they still "have no idea". If they're really going to have them in by February, wouldn't they know by tomorrow if they were going to have them on the shelves by Friday?
Mine is preparing for shipment also. It should be here in just a couple of days. I'll let you know. I'm hoping to use it to store my tv shows and sync it with my apple tv to not take up room on my macbook air. 
From what I've read, Apple stores get deliveries multiple-times throughout the day, every day except Sunday. Apple pushes products to the stores, so the stores don't know what they're getting until its there.
DHL could be scheduled to drop off a load of Time Capsules Friday PM and the stores wouldn't know they were getting them until they received the delivery.
I wonder if that's totally true. As I was waiting for the MBA to first come in I buddy-ed around with the inventory specialist at one store. He seemed to have some idea of what stock was slated to arrive although he would not guarantee the date (he missed his guesstimate by a day). That said, I don't think that any of the regular reps knew about stock at all until they actually showed up.
Usually most Apple store stock comes FedEx from what employees have said, and some UPS, but mainly all arrive compiled with fedex.
dhl only handles parts, like when you send back parts to apple, its primarily dhl they send you labels for.
and usually the retail stores dont know anything until the day before or the day of even, to usually keep everyone on the same level, i guess its fair and make senses that customers get first knowledge and dibs before employees.
Sorry dude, I don't agree w/ your statement about going to your local Apple Store. Apple Store peps won't tell you the 411 until after the fact. You're better off getting that here. Isn't that why you're looking here anyway?
And to those who have guts and ordered, congrats to those with "Prepared for shipment" status...
I think everyone in the USA that has ordered from the official Apple web site has their order status changed to "prepared for shipment" now. It would seem everything is a go for Feb 29th at this time. However, those that didn't order from there may have to wait a little more. Also, those overseas it seems will be at least 4-6 weeks behind the USA in terms of when they will get them.
Apple has changed the "pre-oder" caption of TC to "buy" in it's website. So i guess it should be available in the stores by Friday...
TC status still hasn't changed here in aus. The store still says "Ships in 3-4 weeks", which it's been saying for at least a month.
I ordered mine on feb 21, and it's still saying "Not yet shipped", with this below it:
Ships by: 20/03/2008
Delivers by: 26/03/2008
And that just adds a little insult to injury considering what we pay here - the 1TB model is AUD$699, which with the current exchange rate is USD$660
I ordered mine on feb 21, and it's still saying "Not yet shipped", with this below it:
Ships by: 20/03/2008
Delivers by: 26/03/2008
And that just adds a little insult to injury considering what we pay here - the 1TB model is AUD$699, which with the current exchange rate is USD$660
Mine shipped this morning too. Its in Shanghi China Right now.
I guess that explains the delivery estimates we all got. I did wonder if they were coming from Shanghai.