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New tube / no tube….
After asking a couple of retailers, I seem to have found that there have been only a handful of mac pros in the whole of the UK shipped with dual D700s, and only a few with D500s.
Our orders still say shipping Feb, but I can see that slipping now – has anyone else around the UK received a base spec model?
Getting slightly nervous after purchasing thunderbolt storage, transferring projects and only having retina macbook pros to work with, that we might end up well behind on work due to late shipments…
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B&H in NYC, was regularly getting in the two stock models, rarely out of stock for more than a couple of days. Suddenly that stopped and now everything is showing March.
It is a bit disappointing that Apple can’t seem to come close to meeting demand.
I was considering the stock 6 core D500 but wanted 512GB SSD instead of 256GB. A simple change like that sets things back weeks. That’s a serious parts shortage.
Given what happened with last year’s iMac release, there seems to be a need for a serious reexamination of Apple’s supply chain management.
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My 8-core, otherwise maxed out, machine; ordered December 26th, is still showing February shipping here in Canada.
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On december 19th I’ve ordered a 6 core D700, 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD…
It immediately said “shipping in February”. (I was able to order it in the early morning when shipping was still january if my wife didn’t take my credit card with here to the store that morning!!)
Interestingly though I’ve received 2 emails from apple about my status:
january 30th & february 17thBoth were standard emails giving a status update where was said the mac pro was still going to be shipped in february. I hope those emails are a sign that the pro is actually being assembled and shipping soon… iMac is driving me nuts!
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I haven’t heard of anyone who’s initial ship date said “February” begging changed. Hopefully they were super-conservate with their ship estimates.
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yeah well the end of February is coming. I figured I would perhaps receive my mp early February(as I’ve ordered the day it got released) but we’re already at 2/3 of the month.
Strangely I’ve heard of someone in the UK getting the mp in january while he had ordered his unit more than a week later than i did and he had a maxed out 8 core. -
It may come down to an uneven distribution of units globally, depending on how they’re handling global orders.
I’m betting this is a backlog of CPUs from Intel.
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as long as it’s shipping in february! 🙂
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I seriously can’t see us getting ours anytime in February. With only 10 days left, even if the dispatch date comes before the end of this week, it still needs to ship to us from Dallas. Seems that US orders will ship first, then Canada and Europe.
It’s not a concern for apple but we are going to be losing money if they don’t arrive before the first week of March. Disappointed.
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I guess we have to learn to read apples words carefully:
“shipping”(!!!) in february… As long as it goes out the door of the factory before 23:59 on february 28th they’ve kept their word…
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Really. This is like a parody of “build on demand” wherein the normally hubristic Apple somehow anticipates NO demand, builds a couple dozen units and then sits on their hands to see how demand will shake out.
I can hear the plant manager: “Okay, prototype team, pack it up. People are actually buying the Tube, so no more one-offs. We’re tooling up to make … HUNDREDS of these things!” 🙂
Doug D
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