Actually the person that told me about 2 weeks said to keep calling to check up OR order online. I think the realization now is the retail launch is delayed and we wont see a retail launch till manufacturing gets going and see prepared to ship for a bunch more people.
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Actually the person that told me about 2 weeks said to keep calling to check up OR order online. I think the realization now is the retail launch is delayed and we wont see a retail launch till manufacturing gets going and see prepared to ship for a bunch more people.
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Got that right. Our order will probably be on the same flight out since you ordered a day after I did.
I have a hard time believing apple not having enough MBA's to fill an initial pre-order and store debut. They had to see this coming as they did with the iPhone. The Lenox store here in Atlanta had plenty iPhones left 2-3 days after the launch. I'd rather stand in line to get a MBA than to have to wait 3 weeks. which is my ship by date.
I guess they didn't manufacture enough with all the bad weather. The other thing is Apple doesn't own the factory, so I believe. I know in the past when I've dealt with Chinese orders, especially close to the New Year. Factories have a cut off date for that too and shut down for more than just a day. Also operations probably were not at peak even if there was some manufacturing being done when the snow storms first hit. I don't think anyone can plan for the worst snow storm. I was looking at the Chinese government's analysis. It is not good at all. Theres food being taken out of reserves to be sold to prevent economic crisis. Enormous amounts of troops being deployed to get everything operating again.
I'm hoping that sometime this week they'll resume mass manufacturing to handle all the online orders and prepare a store rollout.
people that ordered much after the keynote are starting to get shipping notifications. maybe we'll see them in large quantity soon in the stores.
wait... i need to know the rest of the story! what happened? did they sell it or is it kept in the secret storage room with all the other MBA waiting for the nationwide rollout? please go back
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Do keep in mind products like these are planned for manufacturing month in advance, rumor from component suppliers are initial manufacturing run is 30,000 units.
This week most if not all the factories in China goes into mandatory Chinese New Year shutdown, this will start back up Feb 12th, cut-off for FedEx shipment is Feb 4th in China, so I suspect factory is rushing to get as much shipped out before the 4th.
Just my 2cents
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I was able to purchase a MBA Superdrive (one of two on the shelf) at an Apple store in the Phoenix area. I then cancelled the I had just added to my existing order the day before. At least I will not have wait three weeks for that drive.
However, in the last 24 hours, there have been no updates to my FedEx shipping notice status report. In fact several others on another MacRumors forum have the same date/time stamp on our FedEx notices. So, we do not know if they actually got out of Pudong (ZSPD airport identifier) China and are parked in Anchorage (PANC airport identifier). In doing some research, it appears that FedEx flight #48 (FDX48) might be our target vessel for the trip from China. That flight continues to Newark after a period of time in Alaska.
Another night's sleep will give me the opportunity to see what the morrow brings in terms of delivery. My Apple Store Shipment notice stated "Delivers by 6 Feb" so now we are tight on time to accompllsh that promise.
I agree with many others that the lack of veracity of some of the Apple store employees concerning the MBA arrival date(s) and their stock status has caused many customers frustration along with out of pocket expense to travel to a store only to find only vaporware, not hardware!
However, in the last 24 hours, there have been no updates to my FedEx shipping notice status report. In fact several others on another MacRumors forum have the same date/time stamp on our FedEx notices. So, we do not know if they actually got out of Pudong (ZSPD airport identifier) China and are parked in Anchorage (PANC airport identifier). In doing some research, it appears that FedEx flight #48 (FDX48) might be our target vessel for the trip from China. That flight continues to Newark after a period of time in Alaska.
Another night's sleep will give me the opportunity to see what the morrow brings in terms of delivery. My Apple Store Shipment notice stated "Delivers by 6 Feb" so now we are tight on time to accompllsh that promise.
I agree with many others that the lack of veracity of some of the Apple store employees concerning the MBA arrival date(s) and their stock status has caused many customers frustration along with out of pocket expense to travel to a store only to find only vaporware, not hardware!
*Sigh* I'm really disappointed about the SB. I hope Apple does something tomorrow to cheer me up.
I hope Apple does something tomorrow to cheer me up.
It was a hard date for retail, people. Not a hard date they told us, but a hard date, not a supply crunch. 4th Feb. For hard drive models, at least; solid-state storage models may trickle in at random.
Check out Best Buy's Web site. No longer a pre-order. Back-ordered online, available at most stores. Then check a nearby store for stock. Unavailable. Because they're supposed to get them today -- and Best Buys may get precious few; unavailable because the store availability feature online is tied to the store inventory system. If they're supposed to get them today, they may even already have them if they take early shipments, but they've not been received, so they don't show up in store stock. So they show online as unavailable at stores, because Best Buy does a buy-online, store-pickup service; you buy it online for store pickup, you get immediately charged a couple grand, that MacBook Air better damn well better be there when you arrive at the store a half hour later. So they won't show *expected* stock in the online store availability system, only received stock, so shipping goofs or whatnot don't lose them customers spending a big chunk of change, and also cause all sort of havoc crediting your credit card, which can take days to post, and for some people would mean, until the credit posted, they couldn't then go get it, say, at an Apple Store that has stock because they were holding that much balance open on a credit card for the purchase. These people would be *very angry*. And this applies to lots of products, not just MacBook Airs.
Hard date. 4th Feb. Apple Store. Go getcha one.
Dammit, still nothing here at Millenia. Now the guess is "sometime in the next couple of days; keep calling." Apple really needs to get their ass in gear and announce a definitive date, or at least explain that there are delays. Giving potential customers the silent treatment but continuing to play ads for the thing non-stop is pretty bad business.
And every time I come in and play around on one of these things, I want one even more. Very frustrating.
Any FL Mall updates? I'm bored enough that I might just head out there and take a look myself.
And every time I come in and play around on one of these things, I want one even more. Very frustrating.
Any FL Mall updates? I'm bored enough that I might just head out there and take a look myself.
It's 4th Feb., I'm standing in an Apple store, and there are none for sale. Unless they sold out between 9:00 AM door open and 9:10 AM when I walked in -- and didn't tell me that they even sold any -- then they don't have them, or we haven't hit the "hard date" yet.
I have some Best Buy gift cards from my b-day last week, so I'm planning to swing by, anyway. None of the local stores are available for in-store pickup, but who knows if they have any units on the shelf.
Head over to the Florida Mall! PLEASE, my plane leaves today, 3pm, so im finishing packing my stuff. I might as well go to the Millenia To try buy one of the display units.
Hey, what's the screen like on the Air? The pics I've seen over at places like appleinsider showed a bright, crisp screen compared to the Macbook Pro. I need a bright screen, sort of like the Dell's TrueLife screen I"m using now. I gots bad vision, you know?