The "I just bought/ordered/got/shipped my new/refurb MBA" thread, [Merged]

[- rob -]

Mine changed to shipped half past midnight. However the UPS shipping details says it has been shipping for a few days now.

I wonder if the exact final destination of the items isn’t assigned until the products are already in the US.

 

[peckerhead]

Just had an SMS from DPD confirming delivery tomorrow and asking me to pick my 1 hour time slot. Earliest they offered me was 1pm to 2pm so that will have to do

 

[Dave245]

Just had an SMS from DPD confirming delivery tomorrow and asking me to pick my 1 hour time slot. Earliest they offered me was 1pm to 2pm so that will have to do

Nice, let us know you're thoughts on the new machine what colour did you get?

 

[julianig99]

My status changed to shipped. However the tracking number isn’t showing in UPS yet. Its scheduled to delivery tomorrow and I’m trying to pre sign beforehand.

My card hasn’t been charged yet.

My credit card was charged last Friday when it changed to preparing for shipment. And now both of my MacBook airs are shipped but tracking numbers can’t be located with ups

 

[nitromaxx]

UPS tracking finally works. New MBA should be here tomorrow.

 

[GadgetBen]

My DPD delivery tracking shows my driver is at the end of my road, however, I am delivery number 33 and he should be with me in 3 hours!!

 

[AJAAY]

Tracking info finally updated. Air is currently out for delivery and I’m currently tracking the driver on the UPS map. It’s scheduled to be delivered by the end of the day, so I’m sure it’ll be delivered after 3pm today.

 

[peckerhead]

Mine just arrived. Now to try it out

 

[- rob -]

Mine is out for delivery. Won’t be leaving the house today.

 

[peckerhead]

It has come with 10.14.1 preinstalled. First impressions are that the screen is gorgeous compared to my 2014 Macbook Air, and the keyboard isn't as bad as people make out. The touch ID is lightning fast.

 

[AJAAY]

UPS was extremely early today! I guess the “end of the day” estimate means 11am. I had to “take a bathroom break” and leave the office really quickly to dash home and get my package off the front porch. I probably won’t get to open it to and play with it until tomorrow evening. But I’m happy it arrived!

 

[lambertjohn]

My DPD delivery tracking shows my driver is at the end of my road, however, I am delivery number 33 and he should be with me in 3 hours!!

you know, if you know where he is, you can track him down and show him your ID and he'll hand your new Air over to you right then and there.

 

[Big Apple]

Well I was going to go to the store tonight to check them out in person but just received a message from my husband with this photo and a message reading "Happy birthday....again" ( long story ). The day needs to hurry up and end already!

 

[- rob -]

UPS doesn't offer real-time look at where packages are. Which is weird, FedEx offers this now, and I think most Amazon packages show it.

 

[Dave245]

Well I was going to go to the store tonight to check them out in person but just received a message from my husband with this photo and a message reading "Happy birthday....again" ( long story ). The day needs to hurry up and end already!

Is that the gold colour? How does it look in person? I ordered the gold but was told it looked more pink than gold so I cancelled my order, if I re-order I might get the space grey. There are pictures where it looks like gold tho, so I’m confused.

 

[Jayderek]

Well I was going to go to the store tonight to check them out in person but just received a message from my husband with this photo and a message reading "Happy birthday....again" ( long story ). The day needs to hurry up and end already!

awesome! congrats on the present

 

[lambertjohn]

UPS doesn't offer real-time look at where packages are. Which is weird, FedEx offers this now, and I think most Amazon packages show it.

Sure they do. It's called, Follow My Delivery to view your package's progress on a live map. I've been following mine for the last hour...in real time. He's in the next neighborhood over and should be in my neighborhood within 20 minutes.

 

[Big Apple]

Is that the gold colour? How does it look in person? I ordered the gold but was told it looked more pink than gold so I cancelled my order, if I re-order I might get the space grey. There are pictures where it looks like gold tho, so I’m confused.

I won't be home for a few hours to check in person but will let you know. I have the gold iPhone XS I'll compare it to, as well as my old iPhone 7 which was rose gold, so I'll see if it's more similar to one of those

awesome! congrats on the present

Thanks! Excited!

 

[Dave245]

I won't be home for a few hours to check in person but will let you know. I have the gold iPhone XS I'll compare it to, as well as my old iPhone 7 which was rose gold, so I'll see if it's more similar to one of those

Thank you, appreciate it fingers crossed it isn’t pink, I really want to like the gold

 

[- rob -]

It came. First impression coming from the 11" is this thing is big. I def will look to see what Apple comes up w/ regard to a faster ARM in a macbook sized machine.

Screen is real nice, huge compared to 11"

Weird to set up touch id again. It feels like old tech thanks to how much progress face id has made.

It def feels like size / performance / faceid on an arm mac will be a killer offering.

 

[jmoore5196]

I loved the display, but hated the gold color ... it's a deep value too far toward rose gold for my taste. Returning mine and I'll wait for a boring space grey. Might up the RAM, but it seems an ideal travel machine.

 

[- rob -]

I loved the display, but hated the gold color ... it's a deep value too far toward rose gold for my taste. Returning mine and I'll wait for a boring space grey. Might up the RAM, but it seems an ideal travel machine.

Ya, I did space grey after many years of silver 11" and I like it. It looks like a MBP, sort of.

 

[ZipZap]

Ordered 10 min ago and it will be here tomorrow: Space Gray 16 gig, 512GB

 

[S.B.G]

Received the new MBA a few hours ago and so far my first impression is very good. It's a big change from my 2012 cMBP in almost every way. This is my first retina Mac and the first time with the newly designed keyboard as well.

I really like the slim and dark bezels. The older MBA's with the big silver bezels looked terrible to me and was a reason I never considered an MBA before. But this new one is very, very nice.

The Retina display is also very, very nice. Everything is crisp and clear. The biggest thing I like about this is how lightweight it is compared to the old MBP and how small it is overall. That will be very nice while going from meeting to meeting at work. I won't feel like I'm dragging a ton of bricks around anymore.

 

[Big Apple]

Thank you, appreciate it fingers crossed it isn’t pink, I really want to like the gold

So just opened it up and I really love the color but I can see why others may not. It's hard to describe it exactly and it changes depending on the light and the angle. At some angles it did look like a darker, deeper gold but at others it did look rose gold. Comparing it directly to my rose gold iphone 7, it was lighter and had more of a gold tone, but comparing to my gold xs iphone it was deeper, almost copperish.

Here's a couple of photos comparing to the rose gold iPhone