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Apple Silicon MacBook Air/Pro Mac mini Order Status Thread

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person123 said:
View attachment 1669310 highly doubt it’ll show up today but this is how mine is looking. Base silver MBA ordered day 1
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You and I are travelling together. My cleared customs scan was at 10:06 a.m. though, so I'm a minute behind. I think we will have ours by tomorrow. We would have had KY arrival/departure scans if it was happening today. Where is yours headed? I'm in SoCal... in the San Fernando valley. Hopefully I'm hitching a ride to the Burbank airport today.

I'm sure I'll get an updated email/text from UPS about the delivery being scheduled for tomorrow.
 
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Bea220 said:
You and I are travelling together. My cleared customs scan was at 10:06 a.m. though, so I'm a minute behind. I think we will have ours by tomorrow. We would have had KY arrival/departure scans if it was happening today. Where is yours headed? I'm in SoCal... in the San Fernando valley. Hopefully I'm hitching a ride to the Burbank airport today.

I'm sure I'll get an updated email/text from UPS about the delivery being scheduled for tomorrow.
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UPS My Choice now shows my MacBook Air arrived in Louisville today and will deliver tomorrow between 9:30-1:30.
 
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darkharbour said:
Flipping through the thread, it looks like the Canada-bound orders are in ‘clearance in progress’ while American (or other) orders are seeing different statuses. My guess is that the Canadian orders are going through a different clearance for customs in our country and given that they departed Alaska yesterday, it’s possible that our shipments have landed in a UPS hub (such as Hamilton), and are being cleared in Canada.
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Yeah looks like it. My delivery date has been updated as well to Wednesday, November 18 EOD but same activity - We currently have the package. The receiver requested clearance by a non-UPS broker.
 
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KPOM said:
UPS My Choice now shows my MacBook Air arrived in Louisville today and will deliver tomorrow between 9:30-1:30.
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Yep, as expected. My UPS updates always lag. With my iPhone case it showed I was supposed to get it on 10/19 and it stayed that way until the next day and I wound up getting it on 10/20/20.

I'm happy for tomorrow. I had ZERO expectations of it arriving today. Woulda been sweet though!
 
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Bea220 said:
Yep, as expected. My UPS updates always lag. With my iPhone case it showed I was supposed to get it on 10/19 and it stayed that way until the next day and I wound up getting it on 10/20/20.

I'm happy for tomorrow. I had ZERO expectations of it arriving today. Woulda been sweet though!
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Tomorrow is when the embargoes are lifted, so I always expected a hold. The good news is that CTO models seem to be shipping ahead of schedule.
 
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Ruppenthal said:
Does anyone else have their MacBook Air shipping via FedEx? I have a shipment notification but the package has been in Shanghai since yesterday morning with no movement. And why FedEx when everyone else is UPS? Odd. Shipping to Charlottesville, VA.
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I ordered 2 MacBook Airs. One a “base” and one a “custom” model. The “base” is shipping UPS and the “custom” is shipping FedEx. The base model is arriving Tuesday (UPS says tomorrow, but I’m sure Apple will put a hold on it). The custom model has an 11/24-11/27 window but I have a tracking Number (it’s still listed in Shanghai). FedEx has a “pending” delivery date, but it lists 11/20 as their best estimate based on the shipping service selected.
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I'm thinking all the custom models must be shipping via FedEx. The one I ordered is a custom build and it is also shipping via FedEx. Currently in Shanghai with a delivery estimate of November 24th.
 
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Question for those whose computer arrives tomorrow: how do y’all feel a the 8GB of ram?

my current laptop is 2016 2TB MBP, ordered a base MBA

I’m not a pro user at all, I’m in medical school and the most intensive thing I do is have 15 tabs open along with a flash card app and maybe a pdf, but what do y’all think? Why did you guys feel okay with 8GB of ram? I wanted to get 16 gb of ram but couldn’t justify the 20% increase in price, now having second thoughts
 
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person123 said:
Question for those whose computer arrives tomorrow: how do y’all feel a the 8GB of ram?

my current laptop is 2016 2TB MBP, ordered a base MBA

I’m not a pro user at all, I’m in medical school and the most intensive thing I do is have 15 tabs open along with a flash card app and maybe a pdf, but what do y’all think? Why did you guys feel okay with 8GB of ram? I wanted to get 16 gb of ram but couldn’t justify the 20% increase in price, now having second thoughts
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I bought the 8GB ram Macbook Pro and plan to be in medical school. I already have an iPad Air to take notes on so that I could always share it with my future macbook. That is most likely the reason I bought it.
 
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MBP ordered within 10 minutes of store opening, 16gb/1tb/silver

I briefly saw an ETA on this page saying 11/18, but that ETA has now disappeared.

Fingers crossed that it arrives tomorrow!! If not, then Wednesday will be busy, cuz that's when I get my HomePod Minis!
 

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person123 said:
Question for those whose computer arrives tomorrow: how do y’all feel a the 8GB of ram?

my current laptop is 2016 2TB MBP, ordered a base MBA

I’m not a pro user at all, I’m in medical school and the most intensive thing I do is have 15 tabs open along with a flash card app and maybe a pdf, but what do y’all think? Why did you guys feel okay with 8GB of ram? I wanted to get 16 gb of ram but couldn’t justify the 20% increase in price, now having second thoughts
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To be frank most people are basing their memory requirements based on x86_64 PCs, which is a poor comparison to these ARM machines.

We know from web browsing on iPhone/iPad that even with 2gb, Safari can make many tabs feel comfortable.

I think Apple wouldn't be selling a machine with 8gb if that wasn't enough for most people.
 
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person123 said:
Question for those whose computer arrives tomorrow: how do y’all feel a the 8GB of ram?

my current laptop is 2016 2TB MBP, ordered a base MBA

I’m not a pro user at all, I’m in medical school and the most intensive thing I do is have 15 tabs open along with a flash card app and maybe a pdf, but what do y’all think? Why did you guys feel okay with 8GB of ram? I wanted to get 16 gb of ram but couldn’t justify the 20% increase in price, now having second thoughts
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I'm upgrading from a 2015 13" MBP with 8 gigs of RAM. Also in grad school and have about the same workload as you. I thought it best to try the 8 gig version first and we can always swap out for the more expensive one if we need to (as opposed to getting the 16 and it being overkill + spending the extra money). I think it's tough to say how it'll go considering the new chip and everything.
 
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kevcube said:
To be frank most people are basing their memory requirements based on x86_64 PCs, which is a poor comparison to these ARM machines.

We know from web browsing on iPhone/iPad that even with 2gb, Safari can make many tabs feel comfortable.

I think Apple wouldn't be selling a machine with 8gb if that wasn't enough for most people.
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I don't think that's a fair comparison. MacOS and iOS/iPadOS are completely different.
 
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