I'll play:
M1 Mini 16/512
Ordered 12/04
Original Website and Email Estimated: (two weeks)
Subsequent Website Estimate: 12/31
VISA Authorized 12/10
Preparing for shipment 12/10
Shipped 12/11
Apple Email Estimate: 12/22
UPS Scheduled: 12/17
Delivery location - Calgary
Who knows whether Apple or UPS is closer to correct, but I'm off work from the 18th for two weeks, and whether it's the Thursday before I punch out or the Tuesday after, it's looking promising I'll have plenty of time to play around, customize, and get my workflow locked down before the New Year. Which is good, because I'm not planning to roll Migration Assistant this time, so there'll be some additional setup.
Pleased.
The new 49" Ultrawide arrived a couple of days ago, and I finally got a chance to hook it up and play around a bit, though it's currently on my wife desk. Nice of her to lend me the space, and honestly she spends more time at her clinic office than in our home office, which has mostly become mine since my company sent me home in March. The mini and the ultrawide will replace a late-2015 iMac and an aging 24" Dell UltraSharp. It's a nice little bump in speed and workflow, and will decouple the monitor for easier upgrades in the future. The plan is to pass the mini along to to kiddo as her first computer in a couple of years, and move up to whatever semi-beefy mini Apple is offering then.