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Should I have purchased New Mac Pro in Apple store for business??
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At BVE yesterday I saw two MacTubes. One was on a stand of Apple resellers, and in a crowded hall they looked a bit lonely on their empty stand. No adoring crowds for them. Elsewhere, the Final Cut Pro X Professional (!) theatre was doing good business, as were Adobe and Avid.
I did my bit in a TV-Bay hosted web discussion on training, and the current problem in the UK of not being able to get the staff at the junior end.
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Bernie
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That’s probably my tube standing there 🙂
But isnt’ that weird? : final cut PRO X PROfessional? Is Final Cut Pro X for amateurs then?
It’s now February 27th,… and no word from Apple yet, they’re really stretching it…
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Well, we just had some news from apple.
“Unfortunately your order has been delayed and will not be shipping in February. We hope to ship in the next 7 working days but we have no confirmation on the shipping date. If the date changes we will update you.”
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I just got a call from apple with the exact same info!
I could explode! but I’m not going to… Now let’s hope the tube actually has the specs I ordered! (unless they’ve mistakenly put an 8 core in there, a 1 TB SSD and 64Gigs of RAM, in that case I will hold my piece..)
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FWIW, MacMall and Tekserve both seem to have reasonable stock on the stock models, same day shipping or walk in and carry out. Tekserve says the BTO are very slow though.
MacMall says 5-7 days on all the BTO systems.
B&H showing 4-6 weeks even on stock models for the last few weeks. All my local Apple Stores show “ship to store” rather than in stock.
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Perhaps that would have been the safest thing, to buy a stock model and upgrade later if needed.
I just don’t understand that some people order december 26th or later and get their order weeks before someone who orders on the 19th.
I’m sure it makes sense to Apple but when I would start doing that to clients that would be considered to be a bad thing.
Perhaps it has got to do with the fact that I’m living in Europe like Tom Sefton, and we both got the same message. Maybe Apple decided to serve Americans and Canadians first? I’m sure shipping takes about a week from US shores to Europe.Ah well, probably once that machine is on my desk it’ll be water under the bridge
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Although do consider that in NYC I can buy at B&H and have a six week wait for a stock model yet a mile away I can walk into Tekserve and walk out with the same computer… and apparently even the nearby Apple store has a wait of several days. MacMall, online, will also ship the stock model the same day for next day delivery. It seems Apple has a very odd distribution model.
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That’s a very weird distribution model indeed!
But they’ve made the December deadline and I had an estimated shipping date of february, so essentially there’s nothing wrong, I just wish they would be more open about things. I would mind things less when they would just be straight and say what’s going on.
anyway, given the fact they’ve doubled down on secrecy that’ll never happen 🙂
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Walked into Tekserve today and walked out with stock 6 core model. No waiting. I asked what the wait would be if I wanted 512GB SSD instead of stock 256GB SSD. They said that could be several weeks.
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