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GREAT NEWS!
ah wait no, things have gone BACKWARDS... my credit card has been un-charged and still 'Processing'
Come ON Apple.. WTF is going on?!
Great. Now I have "survivor's guilt."
Great. Now I have "survivor's guilt."
LOL.
I suspect some here are already suffering from Stockholm Syndrome ("oh Apple, thank you for making me check my order status for 37 straight days).
LOL.
I suspect some here are already suffering from Stockholm Syndrome ("oh Apple, thank you for making me check my order status for 37 straight days).
Or 37 times per hour...for 37 straight days.
No doubt. I think they are somehow matching orders on the spreadsheet to comments here. Apple sycophants get early shipping - whiners like me are punished.
Oh Mr. Cook, I am sorry, please send me a nMP. I will lick the floor clean of the Apple Store of your choosing...
GREAT NEWS!
ah wait no, things have gone BACKWARDS... my credit card has been un-charged and still 'Processing'
After reading this I went and checked my account and low and behold, my card has also had the reserved payment removed. Back to square one.
Might give them a ring and see what the deal is. I'm sure I'll get the same old tale. Starting to wonder if it will ship in Jan.
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are you STILL whining about some minimum-wage CSR spitting out a stock line?
the only thing you were told when you purchased was "ships by january". you agreed to purchase. they never made any other promise to you and sure as hell did not even say they would ship in order (we assumed this, but they never said it).
it's just silly to keep on whining about the same point. at some point you've got to get over feeling so deceived.
well, you have only 5 more days to be tormented until you cancel your order, right?
From the spreadsheet your order changed to Preparing for Shipping today... Is the spreadsheet get screwed up or it actually does change to that status?
Thanks again, AJC. Interesting to see that there were no status updates at all on Saturday 25 January (technically Jtoyoda's update was on 24 January, Austin time (CST)). Keep the stats updates coming!
Is this really all going to come together by next Friday?! I have no confidence now, based on Apple's approach to date. BTW the word "in" in your signature may need updating...
You're right there, Mark. Although I do say "January" in my signature without going as far as specifying which year.
I agree with you, though, at the current rate I can't see any way that all the January orders on the spreadsheet will be fulfilled (or at least see a status change) by next Friday. Unless there's some kind of pre-planned ramp up in production this week (which would also go some way to explaining why the expected ship date of orders placed through most of January was "February"). Perhaps there's some big push on production about to start because whatever was making things run at a crawl up until now has been resolved?
I can dream...
You're right there, Mark. Although I do say "January" in my signature without going as far as specifying which year.
I agree with you, though, at the current rate I can't see any way that all the January orders on the spreadsheet will be fulfilled (or at least see a status change) by next Friday. Unless there's some kind of pre-planned ramp up in production this week (which would also go some way to explaining why the expected ship date of orders placed through most of January was "February"). Perhaps there's some big push on production about to start because whatever was making things run at a crawl up until now has been resolved?
I can dream...
Guys, you may get a free stuff when Apple break its promises.
The OP is here to manage expectations, and to define good customer service for all of us. I suspect he is really Tim Cook, and building these machines in his office during spare moments of his day is quite frustrating when rubes like us are complaining about the crappy way they are filling orders (out of order, favoring USA addresses, shipping expedited only if you harangue them, etc.). That would explain the whole thought/speech police thing.
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No, I am whining because stupid me, I thought expressing my frustration with Apple might have some Apple weenie start moving things. I forgot - only sycophants get their orders filled early. I see yours was filled just now - WEEKS earlier than people above you in line.
We finally have the Apple order system figured out!
That's a possibility, I suppose, although personally I'd rather have the machine ship this month.
Well I have decided I am not keeping mine, the current problems with Bootcamp (I need windows) and I really cant get used to having all my drives external, I want to love it but its just not happening
So if anyone in the UK want's a 6Core,16Gb,512,D700 that was purchased with the 20% HE Discount for cost price let me know or have a look at my thread on AVForums
Just look it up in AVForums Desktop Classified, should not be too hard to find.
Otherwise it will be going back to Apple next week.
So if anyone in the UK want's a 6Core,16Gb,512,D700 that was purchased with the 20% HE Discount for cost price let me know or have a look at my thread on AVForums
Just look it up in AVForums Desktop Classified, should not be too hard to find.
Otherwise it will be going back to Apple next week.
Too bad.
I don't get the tiny SSD in the stock models. I ordered a stock hex except for a 1TB SSD. I am baffled by Apple's view that 256G is sufficient for any power-user workstation.
Probably a stupid question from me, but I'm guessing for performance reasons that you have to use Bootcamp for whatever it is you do. I also (unfortunately) need to run Windows (hereafter referred to as "Windoze") as I need to access SQL Server databases using SQL Server Management Studio. I find Parallels* does the job really well for me and I intend to use it on my nMP (if it ever gets dispatched from Texas).
Using a virtual machine has the added advantage of allowing me to run OS X and Windoze side by side and I believe that Mavericks will even go as far as allowing me to run it full screen on a separate monitor without it screwing up my main display.
But I'm sure you know all that already so I'll get my coat...
(* other VM products are available
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Probably a stupid question from me, but I'm guessing for performance reasons that you have to use Bootcamp for whatever it is you do. I also (unfortunately) need to run Windows (hereafter referred to as "Windoze") as I need to access SQL Server databases using SQL Server Management Studio. I find Parallels* does the job really well for me and I intend to use it on my nMP (if it ever gets dispatched from Texas).
Using a virtual machine has the added advantage of allowing me to run OS X and Windoze side by side and I believe that Mavericks will even go as far as allowing me to run it full screen on a separate monitor without it screwing up my main display.
But I'm sure you know all that already so I'll get my coat...
(* other VM products are available
Cheers, yes its graphics performance a couple of items I use are fine in Parallels but a couple just cant hack it.
I am really torn, part of me loves the nMP and part of me loathes it, I am an old stick in the mud and having external drives really annoys me, I am just looking at it and thinking I would really prefer a good old Big Box...
I have sourced a HP Z800 Workstation with Dual 6 Core Xeon 5660s and 48GB of ECC Ram for £879 I figure with the addition of 2 512 SSDs (1 as a windows boot disk and 1 as a hackintosh) (Which I already have) I will have a Proper Big Box workstation with the same performance as the 6 Core nMP for under £1000 (Benchmarks show the Dual 5660s are just a bit quicker than the 6 Core nMP without overclocking, and the 5660s overclock well).
Here's today's stat update. It's not 24 hours since the last one but, hey, who's counting?
As usual, changes are in red and I'm only looking at orders with shipping estimates of January. I'm also only knocking an item off once it has any date next to it whether it's arrived yet or going on a tour of several states/countries as is the usual practice.
Here's how it stood at 10.45pm UK time Saturday:
US - 15 out of 66 still with no dates
Canada - 2 out of 11 still with no dates
Europe - 17 out of 31 still with no dates
Asia/Oceania - 8 out of 13 still with no dates
And here's how it stands at 5.30pm UK time Sunday:
US - 14 out of 66 still with no dates
Canada - 2 out of 11 still with no dates
Europe - 17 out of 31 still with no dates
Asia/Oceania - 8 out of 13 still with no dates
Tim's only made 1 Mac Pro today. Looks like he's flagging!
As usual, changes are in red and I'm only looking at orders with shipping estimates of January. I'm also only knocking an item off once it has any date next to it whether it's arrived yet or going on a tour of several states/countries as is the usual practice.
Here's how it stood at 10.45pm UK time Saturday:
US - 15 out of 66 still with no dates
Canada - 2 out of 11 still with no dates
Europe - 17 out of 31 still with no dates
Asia/Oceania - 8 out of 13 still with no dates
And here's how it stands at 5.30pm UK time Sunday:
US - 14 out of 66 still with no dates
Canada - 2 out of 11 still with no dates
Europe - 17 out of 31 still with no dates
Asia/Oceania - 8 out of 13 still with no dates
Tim's only made 1 Mac Pro today. Looks like he's flagging!
I don't want to burst your bubble, however a few of us have been on this roller coaster ride already. My card had a pending charge for the Mac Pro last Tuesday (21st) and it just dropped off 2 days later putting me right back to where I was on 19 December. Nothing since.
And I'm not the only one.
However, with January rapidly running out of what are commonly known as "days" (a concept Apple may be struggling with if the spreadsheet is anything to go by) your experience may be different. I hope for your sanity levels that it is.
As I had placed my nMP order very early (within minutes of the store coming live), I too was getting a little anxious about the poor treatment of customers in Asia and Oceania in particular. On 22nd I phoned Apple and pointed out that the low priority in filling non USA customers was not a good look for Apple. The representative I spoke too said she would seek advice and call me back at midday 24th. She was true too her word and stated that my nMP would ship definitely before 31st January 2014.
Perhaps there has been a shortage of D700 cards which Apple knows are being delivered this week? We can only live in hope!
My first Mac was an Apple Lisa in 1983 which became a MacXL and started a long journey. In 2008, just after the GFC struck, I purchased many Apple shares in my Super fund, when they were $80. Now they are about $550. You could say I am grateful to Apple for the security their success has brought to my super fund! But my 2007 MacPro 2,1 died early last November so I am eagerly awaiting my new MacPro.
Perhaps there has been a shortage of D700 cards which Apple knows are being delivered this week? We can only live in hope!
My first Mac was an Apple Lisa in 1983 which became a MacXL and started a long journey. In 2008, just after the GFC struck, I purchased many Apple shares in my Super fund, when they were $80. Now they are about $550. You could say I am grateful to Apple for the security their success has brought to my super fund! But my 2007 MacPro 2,1 died early last November so I am eagerly awaiting my new MacPro.
The orders with no dates represent roughly 34% of the total January orders. If this is a representative proportion of all the orders around the world (including those not accounted for by the spreadsheet) that factory is in for one hell of a week.
Oh my word. Something just happened.
Edit: Simultaneous CC charge and change to "preparing for shipment".
Edit: Simultaneous CC charge and change to "preparing for shipment".