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No Movement on UK/European Orders yet.

My new best friend has arrived safely

Stock hex, ordered ~10 minutes of store being up

Gosh, he really is very quiet.
 
jondunford said:
remember when you use your "american" mac that it was designed by british jony ive ;)
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Because Ive designs all the Mac products all by his lonesome and lives in the UK.

Between the Luxo Jr. iMac along with Mac Cube there is a pretty big gap from those and this Mac Pro. Frankly, the Mac designs have gotten a bit better when there were integrated multiconstraint (multidimensional) insights rather than one influencing hand skewing the design.
 
My card just got charged for my order that I placed on December 19th around midday. Still no order status update, but I anticipate that very soon.

This was for a 12-core BTO config in the UK.
 
peabo said:
My card just got charged for my order that I placed on December 19th around midday. Still no order status update, but I anticipate that very soon.
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This was marked as ships in January or Feburary before status change ?

[ Feeds into the theory of "ships in XXX" means end of the month or not. this would be counter indicator if was January and shipping mid-month for the "end of the month" hypothesis. ]
 
deconstruct60 said:
This was marked as ships in January or Feburary before status change ?

[ Feeds into the theory of "ships in XXX" means end of the month or not. this would be counter indicator if was January and shipping mid-month for the "end of the month" hypothesis. ]
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It was marked as January.
 
I wish I had any clue when in feb it will arrive... Why was I so slow and only ordered on jan 3rd? :rolleyes: I will be gone for 10 days mid feb, I bet it will arrive then and I won't even be here to open it up!!
 
Has anyone else in the UK seen any order update? I called support on Monday who confirmed my Mac Pro would arrive in January but couldn't say when.

This wait has gone beyond the point of being frustrating now.
 
CD1212 said:
Has anyone else in the UK seen any order update? I called support on Monday who confirmed my Mac Pro would arrive in January but couldn't say when.

This wait has gone beyond the point of being frustrating now.
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Looking at the spreadsheet, four European orders, including two in the UK, turned to preparing for dispatch yesterday. Hang in there!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoyx0F5rjIn7dFBRbXQ2Q3BwbXc2S2NhWUVzVlAxUEE&usp=sharing

You can also see (as I think Anim previously pointed out) that one of the first (if not the first) order into the UK has been bricked because the chap cloned an installation of OSX from a non-retina/4K Mac. I'd have thought Apple's internet recovery tool should be working by now, avoiding the need to send a machine back where the internal SSD no longer contains a working installation or the recovery partition.
 
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Scissors said:
Looking at the spreadsheet, four European orders, including two in the UK, turned to preparing for dispatch yesterday. Hang in there!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoyx0F5rjIn7dFBRbXQ2Q3BwbXc2S2NhWUVzVlAxUEE&usp=sharing

You can also see (as I think Anim previously pointed out) that one of the first (if not the first) order into the UK has been bricked because the chap cloned an installation of OSX from a non-retina/4K Mac. I'd have thought Apple's internet recovery tool should be working by now, avoiding the need to send a machine back where the internal SSD no longer contains a working installation or the recovery partition.
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Could you explain a little more how he managed to brick his mac?
 
TjeuV said:
Could you explain a little more how he managed to brick his mac?
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It's not possible to say for sure from the details in the spreadsheet, but it might have involved attaching a working boot drive from another Mac (such as an oMP, which doesn't run a retina/4K display) and using something like SuperDuper to clone it to the nMP's internal drive. That would have caused the nMP not to boot and might also have removed the recovery partition.

However, all Macs manufactured in the last couple of years feature internet recovery (by holding down Cmd+R on start up), so even with a blank SSD or an SSD with a non-functioning installation OSX, it's possible to restore the operating system. Accordingly, it's not clear to me why the nMP needed to be sent back to Apple at all.

Would be interesting to hear from FuzzyDweeb on this.
 
TjeuV said:
Could you explain a little more how he managed to brick his mac?
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Probably instead of reinstalling his OSX apps or using the Mac Migration feature, he just clone his existing drive and replaced the content inside nMP SSD. If I'm not mistaken, the nMP is running a special version of Mavericks (4K and dual GPU support maybe?), so for the nMP, people probably should not do a clone install.
 
The UK Apple store is now showing the nMP as dispatching in March. That's quite a long delay.
 
Malaysia Apple Store nMP expected delivery date is now March as well. I'm guessing it's worldwide March delivery date for those who ordered today?
 
As noted in the sticky at the top, and as i thought after posting above. The delivery date has gone back a month about a month after ordering became live. therefore nothing has actually changed.
 
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