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List of Members Waiting for their Macbook Air to Ship and Arrive and Photos!

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Particular

macrumors member
Nov 28, 2007
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Here in Australia the stores have received ship dates of Feb 6th for the MacBook Air and Time Capsule. Others have received a Feb 21st ship date for the MBA.
 
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domhnal

macrumors newbie
Jan 21, 2008
24
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Nova Scotia, Canada
Ordered Jan 21st

Greetings all,

I ordered the new MacBook Air 13/1.8/2GB/80GB with Standard Shipping to Canada. From my experience with Apple.ca shipping, it usually doesn't matter which method I choose - gets here the same time "early". This is my 3rd Apple laptop and 7th Apple computer, no complaints....huge fan, convert users daily!!

My G4 12" PowerBook was my last attempt at holding on to a small laptop for airline travel. I have been contemplating a 15" MacBook Pro for the last 6 months...but have been holding out for the MBA. Just a little sad about the FireWire because I use an Apple Cinema display, so I guess will be losing the monitor ports with the MBA.

Here are the details from my order placed on Jan 21st. If it does ship on the 12th from Shanghai, I usually get product 4-5 days later. Here is hoping for the 15th or 18th.

Ships by: Feb 12
Delivers by: Feb 22

Ordered January 21
 
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praetorianer69

macrumors newbie
Jan 21, 2008
20
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Germany
Cybergypsy said:
I ordered during the key note, the apple store came up for a minute....

my ship dates Feb 6, by Feb 12th :)
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I am a little confused, i have read something about in this thread that some mac books air are on the way to the customers...

Is this true...

Ordered - 15.01.
Shipping - 05.02.
Delivering - 11.02.
 
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ahaxton

macrumors 6502a
Jan 17, 2008
552
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John Mayer makes me mad.....

Why did I listen to my mom when she said, keep the money forget fame. I should become a Paparazzi whore.

I don't know anyone who got a MacBook Air so early.....

Hmm wonder what sort of circles I need to be in to get Mac stuff early lol. Cool swag would be nice instead of so so swag.
 
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sosnow

macrumors member
Sep 18, 2007
61
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Store Inventory

Does anyone anticipate long lines like the iphone for the MBA. I am planning on going to my local Apple store as soon as I read someone on this forum has a shipping confirmation. But I am wondering what this group thinks about the demand and if it will be immediately soldout.

Thanks

PS This is the only positive forum out there for the MBA. I understand that some don't like it and that is fine, but they keep clogging all the forums with negatives. I ahope that after we start seeing some in public the positive forums will appear.
 
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TanToday

macrumors member
Aug 23, 2007
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n0de

macrumors 6502
Feb 3, 2005
321
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Shipping confirmation was accessories only

I think it was on page 6 or 7 of this thread...
 
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n0de

macrumors 6502
Feb 3, 2005
321
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Mine does say "Prepared for shipment" and I cannot make any changes to the order, but the ship date still shows Feb 6 with delivery by Feb 12.

The last time I did this was with the PB upgrade to the 1.67 15". I ordered immediately after keynote and they shipped a few days later. I never remember seeing the "Prepared for Shipment", just straight from "Not Yet Shipped" to a half a dozen scans in China.
 
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PieMac

macrumors 6502a
Oct 3, 2002
769
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Malcster said:
Not sure on this forum but on the Apple MacBook Air discussion forum a few people have got to the Prepared for Shipment stage.

Link
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Yeah, been following that thread too. I just did a google search and so far it doesn't appear that anyone has received confirmation of it actually shipping yet. Think I'm going to go ahead and list my MBP on Ebay today anyway. Think I can survive a few days or a week or so without a laptop if need.
 
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n0de

macrumors 6502
Feb 3, 2005
321
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Usually when either a Fedex or UPS label is printed the tracking number is generated immediately and just shows in the system as having no tracking information (label information transmitted by shipper).

Now if our MBA's are already labeled to the point that we cannot cancel our orders, I wonder what the deal is. Unless instead of shipping them direct from China, they are coming in batch to the US then sent on.

If I remember correctly, and feel free to correct me if I am wrong, Fedex from China goes to Alaska to clear customs then on to Indy for general distribution. So if a full batch goes through customs in AK but is not sent directly to the consumer until it hits Indy, then this "Prepared" status could sit for at least 2 more days before showing shipping scan progress which would begin in Indy.

Sorry about the rambling, this is the best distraction from the stock markets I have right now....
 
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PieMac

macrumors 6502a
Oct 3, 2002
769
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n0de said:
Sorry about the rambling, this is the best distraction from the stock markets I have right now....
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No kidding...I am not enjoying watching my Apple stock drop like a lead balloon this am. I feel confidant it will rebound, but it's unnerving.
 
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sanford

macrumors 65816
Jan 5, 2003
1,265
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Dallas, USA
ahaxton said:
John Mayer makes me mad.....

Why did I listen to my mom when she said, keep the money forget fame. I should become a Paparazzi whore.

I don't know anyone who got a MacBook Air so early.....

Hmm wonder what sort of circles I need to be in to get Mac stuff early lol. Cool swag would be nice instead of so so swag.
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I think Apple has recognized the benefit of serving the walk-in customer for the consumer line at the same time they deliver to the indoctrinated, in-the-know, pre-ordering customer.

Me, I'm still up in the air about it, pardon the pun. I need to hold it, type on it, before I decide. I'm in the former, small-ish group for whom an MB Air is far more than enough for work, although hardly necessary, as my wife is always happy to remind me. She's fine with what I *want* for work, but when I start talking *need* for work, she'll make the all-too-accurate point that all I *need* to make a living, even in contemporary terms, is a decade-old Dell brick of "portable" I can pick up well-used for about $75. Single USB port for an iPhone and a Time Machine drive, and, rarely, other things, well, I have a perfectly good USB hub for my desk. Audio-in, rare, see USB hub. Optical drive, there's the network drive option and we already have the extra Mac with SuperDrive to use. Oh would there were a 120GB drive option. I'm stuck on the 80GB drive, not for work, but mostly for a *subset* of more than a couple decades of recorded music, and several years of amateur digital photography, plus reasonable headroom for the inevitable adding-to on both fronts. And I can't stand managing two Macs, anymore -- I want it all there all the time; we even sync my wife's iPhone with my Mac so we don't have to duplicate, especially photos and music, across two computers, but even calendars and contacts, as .mac sync notwithstanding there's still some gapping can occur, usually when I most need the items to have made it to the other Mac and onto her iPhone.

Don't need FireWire; don't need, well, anything else it doesn't have. External display, wireless keyboard and Might Mouse, all already covered when I get that fairly short-lived 13-inch display cramped feeling. Plenty of .mac back-up space if I need mobile back-up. No WiFi Internet access for an extended period, flash drive I already own more than enough for a .mac Backup set for new photos or current project work -- you know, the isolated mountain cabin or beach-cottage rental holiday scenario. I'd just have to pare down even more, all on the music front, really.

Okay wait, I just thought of something. You people with all the Mac expertise, chime in, would you? My Time Machine drive, which happens to be FireWire, which happens to have a USB2 interface, too is partitioned, a big enough chunk for Time Machine, going back several months, although I'm far, far more concerned about the automated everything back-up than I am the I-tossed-that-but-I-need-it-a-two-months-later deal. There's 250 MB open on the other partition, which is really just slush, some of our DVDs I've ripped for almost no reason -- just don't watch movies on the iPhones -- and we tend to go first for Blu-ray if available, second for standard DVD, very, very distant third for digital video purchases, like never a movie, just a few TV programs for the kids.

So can't I just put my iTunes library on that external drive, for purposes of playing music at my desk, and syncing with my iPhone and our AppleTV, also streaming to said AppleTV? That separate partition is already backed-up by Time Machine, it's just all the folders are excluded because they're all slush. If I move my iTunes folder there, Time Machine will automatically start backing it up. On the go, local or out of town, my sync needs approach zero. iCal events I can just enter on my iPhone and sync when I get home; frankly, I already enter new contacts on my iPhone as I find it easier, especially commercial contacts I can grab from Goggle maps and then sync back the other way, to my Mac. Photography can just stay on the MB Air -- I'm amateur high-quality JPEG-level, not a semi-pro amateur large-file, RAW-format-level photographer. I can get at least a 150 albums on my iPhone, granted out of over a thousand, but we're talking a couple weeks, a month, away. I collect lots of recorded music, but I'm not insane; 150 select albums for on holiday is a lot. That's not including what we can put on my wife's iPhone. If we plan on watching movies on holiday, we'll take DVDs -- for new films, a couple Netflix, and then buy a handful of older ones we haven't seen -- along with us, packing a oh so terribly sophisticated, very small $30 player that works with just about any TV made in twenty years. But on extended holidays we're far more likely to take 50 pounds of books than park in front of the TV, even for movies.

Sorry, I've run on, but I can't poke any holes in this plan. But others of you are surely better suited to spot any problems. If anyone can confirm this will work just fine with the MB Air, thanks, you've made me $1,800 poorer. My would be happy to adopt my current MacBook, though. Still I have to do a real touch-and-feel thing in an Apple Store for the typing-on-it aspect, but...
 
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n0de

macrumors 6502
Feb 3, 2005
321
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Sanford,

One last thing....:D

For your plan, since you will have all of your backups on a single drive, you NEED to buy a second drive to make occasional backups of your backup.

I know this sounds really redundant, but I have never had a USB drive last more than 2 years. I have always had machines where I had a second copy, but since your plan above indicates you do not want a duplicate copy of everything on your Air, if that one drive goes bad you will be out of luck.
 
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Azurael

macrumors regular
Mar 21, 2005
191
0
zippster said:
lol if this was directed at me .... for starters i dont usually feed the trolls but hey im feeling generous..

1. you think the extra FSB speed makes up for a 720MHz clock speed (this is dual core, remember) difference?

yes considering i suggested comparing the 2.16 (non SR) and the difference between 1.8 and 2.16 = 316mhz and also apart from the chipset they are BOTH core 2 duo CPU's.

2. compared to the current macbook that also doesn't have a dedicated graphics card i cannot imagine many people will be buying to replace there gaming machine.

3. get over the whole 'buzz word' rpm values of current PATA 2.5" !!! nowadays performance isn't entirely made up by the spindle speed many other low powered drives in eco laptops spin at 4200rpm but have a much larger buffer cache size..if people wanted serious disk performance to run large databases and heavy I/O apps they would buy a desktop OR accept the compromise for a smaller more portable footprint.

Now run along little boy!
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For some reason, I read MacBook Pro non-SR 2.16GHz, maily because most of the non-SR MacBooks I've met have been 2GHz or lower, of course that's because most people bought the bottom model, so sorry about that :D

1. Your maths are slightly eschewed. 2.16x2=4.32. 1.8x2=3.6. 4.32-3.6=0.72. The difference is, as I stated, 720MHz. There are very few, if any tasks, where the difference between a 667MT/s FSB and an 800MT/s FSB will cover this clockspeed difference.

2. You are correct. As I stated, I misread your previous post.

3. Your understanding of the hard drive industry is laughable. Yes, a PMR 4200RPM drive is probably as fast, or faster than non-PMR 5400RPM drive. However, 1.8" HDDs are comically slow. Their seek times are absolutely dreadful, and continuous disk-to-buffer transfer rates will never come remotely near a 2.5" HDD of the same spindle speed. Have you ever tried booting off an iPod? It doesn't matter how much cache you put in the drive, it will never cover such dreadful physical disk performance. Hybrid drives would probably be a tremendous improvement, but Apple aren't using those.

If you want to flame somebody, flame yourself, sir.
 
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