Or Apple has a component shortage of the 256GB blade SSDs. That's the only commonality between the two.
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Waiting for Haswell MBP Mega Thread
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It's in Apple's best interest to just ship the updated rMBPs. Apple would update the rMBP just two or three days later and you can see how that would piss some people off if they received the old rMBPs. It would also save Apple the hassle of restocking the opened rMBPs.
They will update them when Thunderbolt 2 is out. Hence Pro in the name. Only a guess, but a logical guess. Probably October like the 13" Retina. If earlier and no Thunderbolt 2 I would be shocked more. Also Samsung has yet to produce 768GB PCI-E SSD. They only offer upto 512 GB. Then, I believe the stars will align and everyone will be happy until Janurary 1, 2014.
I would imagine they would release an update for early 2014 with thunderbolt 2. There are barely any thunderbolt device now. They aren't going to let the pro line be stagnet like the did with the Mac Pro because the demand for the Mac Pro isn't as great as the mbp
I could imagine you wearing santa claus costume, and like HO HO HO ... Macbook airs coming
It could be they didn't want to ring any bells, so even though they state 1-2 days, they'll send another email informing the customer that there are delays.
I should say i'm pretty amazed by Apple's transition from old to new products.
it makes sense to start manufacture, as late as possible before launch.
after all there are still resellers everywhere and their orders on rMBPs orders as well, any orders that are not fulfilled due to limited stocks would be considered as lost sales.
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How did you arrive at the conclusion that that's a logical guess? Delaying the entire product launch -- and therefore losing Q4 revenues -- for a feature that only a fraction of users care about makes no sense at all.
We got 830 Airs last year in 5 packs... here is a picture.
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Apple store is currently down. Does this happen often? If not, we might see some new rMBP's coming!
The Apple Store is down. Here's to hoping for the best!
wow .... you're right
is this another maintenance?
wow .... you're right
is this another maintenance?
On a Sat./Sun., probably just maintenance.
hmmm ... after i think again, it seems to be related to the Apple Store app imminent update on 23rd.
Does seem odd, but it is Saturday, so its probably scheduled maintenance, nothing to get excited about, unfortunately.
To anyone thinking that the apple store being down means that they will put the new MBP on, I doubt it will happen. It will probably just be like a week or 2 ago when it was down and nothing happend. But im hoping I'm wrong
man the suspense and anticipation this thread is fueling has my hopes up!! haha!! just checked and ONLY the apple store section of apple.com is down for me!!! Could this be the moment we've been waiting for?! Maintenance ONLY on the store - seems hardly routine!! everyone cross your fingers and toes....
Same here, the store section is down on apple.com, nothing else. If they were in the process of updating the website with new products such as the rMBP, I would think you would not be able to access the "Mac" portion of the website, but could be wrong. Apple working on a Saturday?? That would be some serious overtime, if that were the case.
well, it is not necessary to bring down the whole website to change static content.
hint: you can swap old webpages with new one in matter of seconds, add a few seconds for pages to hit cache server, the rest of the world in 1-2 minutes.
Yeah, that's usually how it is...
Whenever there's maintenance, it's been the store that's been down.
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