🌎 Mac Studio Pre-orders, Orders and Delivery Status Thread - All Countries (2022)

[JW008]

So trying to piece together some semblance of a story here on deliveries to the U.S.

Days 1 and 2 seem to be *mostly* standard:

Day 1: Origin Scan
Day 2: Departure from Shenzen/Arrival at Shanghai

The variance comes in how long it stays in Shanghai. But it typically looks like a 2-4 day hold.

Then post-Shanghai, things seem to be pretty standard again:

Day 0 (post-Shanghai): Departure from Shanghai/Arrival at Incheon/Arrival at Anchorage

Day 1 (post-Shanghai): Arrival at Louisville

Day 2 (post-Shanghai): Departure from Louisville

Day 3 (post-Shanghai): Delivery

If the above is *mostly* true, you're typically looking at a 5-9 day period between shipping notification and delivery.

That'd be put mine (which shipped the morning of 29 March) arriving between Saturday (2 April) and Wednesday (6 April). Right now UPS says delivery on 31 March (though see my previous comment for a hypothesis that this is the date it clears customs) and Apple says delivery on 6 April.

 

[OSB]

I know all y'all like data points:

• Configuration: Max/32/32/1TB
• Ordered: March 18
• Shipping to: Canada
• Delivery Estimate: Apr 18-25
• Credit Card Charged: March 29
• Shipping: TBD

 

[enricoclaudio]

So trying to piece together some semblance of a story here on deliveries to the U.S.

Days 1 and 2 seem to be *mostly* standard:

Day 1: Origin Scan
Day 2: Departure from Shenzen/Arrival at Shanghai

The variance comes in how long it stays in Shanghai. But it typically looks like a 2-4 day hold.

Then post-Shanghai, things seem to be pretty standard again:

Day 0 (post-Shanghai): Departure from Shanghai/Arrival at Incheon/Arrival at Anchorage

Day 1 (post-Shanghai): Arrival at Louisville

Day 2 (post-Shanghai): Departure from Louisville

Day 3 (post-Shanghai): Delivery

If the above is *mostly* true, you're typically looking at a 5-9 day period between shipping notification and delivery.

That'd be put mine (which shipped the morning of 29 March) arriving between Saturday (2 April) and Wednesday (6 April). Right now UPS says delivery on 31 March (though see my previous comment for a hypothesis that this is the date it clears customs) and Apple says delivery on 6 April.

Check mine so you get an idea when to expect yours to be delivered:

 

[JW008]

Check mine so you get an idea when to expect yours to be delivered:

View attachment 1983180

View attachment 1983181

Thanks! If I'm reading this right, you're in the 2-4 day limbo in Shanghai. So it's *possible* it may make that 3/31 delivery estimate. But I'm guessing it's probably going to be Friday. One thing we can all agree on is that delivery estimate from UPS is junk for everyone.

 

[jlove385]

View attachment 1983119

It's finally here 😍

Just curious - what keyboard is that?

 

[ct2k7]

Is there anyone in this thread who has a dual screen setup? Anyone went for two studio displays?

 

[thefriendshipmachine]

cries in may 11th delivery date for my day 1 order

 

[enricoclaudio]

Is there anyone in this thread who has a dual screen setup? Anyone went for two studio displays?

Still waiting for my Mac Studio but I went with duals LG 32UN880-B Displays mounted in an Ergotron LX dual Display mount.

 

[ct2k7]

cries in may 11th delivery date for my day 1 order

Ouch… what the heck did you order?

 

[aeroalex]

In the same boat (plane?) as you. No update since the early hours. Hoping the next update is just the local depot for delivery tomorrow.

Nope. Ours appear to still be together. No update since 3:56am.

Same for me. It's like they never scanned them in when the plane arrived in the UK in the early hours of the morning! All we can hope for it that they missed the scan and that they will be with the local depots... but then they should've been scanned in there too?!

 

[mrjohnsly]

Same for me. It's like they never scanned them in when the plane arrived in the UK in the early hours of the morning! All we can hope for it that they missed the scan and that they will be with the local depots... but then they should've been scanned in there too?!

Just had an update for mine. Currently in Stanford Le Hope.

 

[aeroalex]

Just had an update for mine. Currently in Stanford Le Hope.

Was literally just about to say the same thing 👌🏻 Looks like all being well they should arrive tomorrow! I've got everything crossed...

I've just had a quick look at where Stanford Le Hope is and it would appear they never went to East Midlands Airport after all. They must have gone to London Stansted. Either that or they took a ferry over here... 😂

 

[ZooY]

cries in may 11th delivery date for my day 1 order

holy you got screwed over hard

 

[jtkiley]

Sometimes I wish I hadn’t chosen such an extravagant order, but at the same time, I really do not want to be buying another one if I need more RAM

Yeah, I think this is the desktop for those of us who need a lot of one or more things (i.e. cores, GPU, RAM, storage, or a combo) but don't need cards.

• CPU: there are base models with both core counts, so that's not too big of an issue.
• GPU: mostly bound to cores because of the SoC design, but the 32 isn't much cost over the 24, and if you need 48, it's pretty easy to see wanting 64. All of that makes CTOing likely.
• RAM: If you need a lot of RAM (either per core or just a lot of RAM total), you're probably CTOing.
• Storage: A few people are fine with small storage, because they're either not IO bound (small external/cloud is fine) or need so much that they're already external as is. But, if not (and I think this is a lot of us), the storage options are really low in the base models. This is probably the most obvious reason to me to CTO.

Interestingly enough, my base M1 Pro MBP with 16GB of RAM is 36 percent faster than my 2020 iMac 5K with 64GB on a data assembly thing I do, even though the MBP uses 40-50GB of swap. At least in that sense, these higher-end M1 generation Macs pay a relatively minor penalty for swap because the SSDs are so fast.

 

[ct2k7]

Yeah, I think this is the desktop for those of us who need a lot of one or more things (i.e. cores, GPU, RAM, storage, or a combo) but don't need cards.

• CPU: there are base models with both core counts, so that's not too big of an issue.
• GPU: mostly bound to cores because of the SoC design, but the 32 isn't much cost over the 24, and if you need 48, it's pretty easy to see wanting 64. All of that makes CTOing likely.
• RAM: If you need a lot of RAM (either per core or just a lot of RAM total), you're probably CTOing.
• Storage: A few people are fine with small storage, because they're either not IO bound (small external/cloud is fine) or need so much that they're already external as is. But, if not (and I think this is a lot of us), the storage options are really low in the base models. This is probably the most obvious reason to me to CTO.

Interestingly enough, my base M1 Pro MBP with 16GB of RAM is 36 percent faster than my 2020 iMac 5K with 64GB on a data assembly thing I do, even though the MBP uses 40-50GB of swap. At least in that sense, these higher-end M1 generation Macs pay a relatively minor penalty for swap because the SSDs are so fast.

I’m coming from the Mac Pro 2019 which gave me the power I needed. I really didn’t need the expansion options.

The Mac Studio likely (I hope) hits the sweet spot for me. A lot of my work is CPU bound but simulation data is stored in memory… so either way, my minimum is 64GB. In the studio case, I’ve gone for 128GB: I expect the memory usage will increase in development and I really can’t afford shipping something to a remote server to run which can have memory errors. The problem I run into is that there’s no ECC for development (studio), but I can live with that; it’s critical in production that there are no memory errors.

 

[NoamL]

Mine shows it cleared customs at 9:37 and arrived at Anchorage at 11:06. I have not received an update from UPS. Believe it or not, I am scheduled for delivery today between 11:30 and 3:30. Clearly, that is not going to happen.

We're in the same batch.

UPS is telling me delivery by 7pm Wednesday - which might be barely feasible if it flies to KY this afternoon and then to the West Coast overnight.

I'm honestly expecting late Thursday instead, or even Friday if @JW008 is correct.

There seem to be two sources of uncertainty in UPS's estimates. First the limbo/bottleneck in Shenzhen which is outside of anyone's control. But also, UPS seems to have some difficulty estimating the package's movements once it hits Anchorage, which is kind of surprising. There are only three legs of delivery left (Alaska to Kentucky, then to regional hub, then out for delivery) and UPS has full control over all of em.

 

[page3]

It’s on UK soil 🎉

 

[jtkiley]

I’m coming from the Mac Pro 2019 which gave me the power I needed. I really didn’t need the expansion options.

The Mac Studio likely (I hope) hits the sweet spot for me. A lot of my work is CPU bound but simulation data is stored in memory… so either way, my minimum is 64GB. In the studio case, I’ve gone for 128GB: I expect the memory usage will increase in development and I really can’t afford shipping something to a remote server to run which can have memory errors. The problem I run into is that there’s no ECC for development (studio), but I can live with that; it’s critical in production that there are no memory errors.

Cool stuff. I've done just a little with simulations, and my real work is using the Python data science ecosystem for academic research, a lot of that with text data. Storage is the limitation that can be miserable (why I got this 2020 5K iMac to replace my 2014 5K iMac), but RAM comes in handy often. I also do some ML here and there, so the GPU gets used, too.

I imagine a lot of simulation data sits in RAM, so module-level ECC would be nice, but LPDDR5 does at least have link ECC from the controller to the module.

 

[BriMercer]

We're in the same batch.

UPS is telling me delivery by 7pm Wednesday - which might be barely feasible if it flies to KY this afternoon and then to the West Coast overnight.

I'm honestly expecting late Thursday instead, or even Friday if @JW008 is correct.

There seem to be two sources of uncertainty in UPS's estimates. First the limbo/bottleneck in Shenzhen which is outside of anyone's control. But also, UPS seems to have some difficulty estimating the package's movements once it hits Anchorage, which is kind of surprising. There are only three legs of delivery left (Alaska to Kentucky, then to regional hub, then out for delivery) and UPS has full control over all of em.

My Mac is in the same position as both yours. I'd extrapolated from other people's UPS tracking and determined that it should have left for Kentucky at 10:45 AM this morning, but as previously pointed out, no updates.

Mine is scheduled for a Wednesday delivery, which seems increasingly unlikely.

Keep us posted if there are any new developments.

The progress on this is excruciating.

 

[mcscot]

I know all y'all like data points:

• Configuration: Max/32/32/1TB
• Ordered: March 18
• Shipping to: Canada
• Delivery Estimate: Apr 18-25
• Credit Card Charged: March 29
• Shipping: TBD

I had a similar config and deliver estimate (to UK) and my Amex is showing a pending charge for today. Hopefully will ship soon. I‘m thinking that there’s a degree of quarterly revenue driven motivation here, assume that if they ship before end of the Q then they can take the revenue this Q vs. next.

 

[enricoclaudio]

UPS91 flight just departed from Shanghai in route to Seoul/Anchorage/Louisville

We should see departure scam from Shanghai in our UPS tracking shortly

5X91 (UPS91) United Parcel Service Flight Tracking and History 30-Mar-2022 (PVG / ZSPD - FlightAware

Track United Parcel Service (5X) #91 flight from Anchorage Intl to Muhammad Ali Intl

flightaware.com

 

[jtkiley]

UPS91 flight just departed from Shanghai in route to Seoul/Anchorage/Louisville

We should see departure scam from Shanghai in our UPS tracking shortly

5X91 (UPS91) United Parcel Service Flight Tracking and History 30-Mar-2022 (PVG / ZSPD - FlightAware

Track United Parcel Service (5X) #91 flight from Anchorage Intl to Muhammad Ali Intl

flightaware.com

So, I know I refreshed that a minute ago, and then again and that flight popped up. I immediately came here, and you had already posted a minute ago. And the best part is that I knew you'd post it first! Here's hoping!

 

[enricoclaudio]

FINALLY!!!! Got Departure scam from Shanghai

 

[JW008]

FINALLY!!!! Got Departure scam from Shanghai

View attachment 1983286

So looks like it took about 45 minutes for the update to show from UPS? Departure at 3:32am Shanghai Time and showed up at around 4:15am Shanghai time?

 

[Johnf1285]

I love how "scan" is "scam" 🤣