Ordered Dec 20. After one week of my credit card being authorized, the authorization has now fallen off. So no imminent shipping. At this point, I'll be happy (sort of) if it ships by Feb. 28 (but of course won't be received until March).
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I've just shut down the old machine to type this message on the new one and it's suddenly gone soooooo quiet. The silence after my old Mac Pro finally went to sleep a moment ago is deafening. I'm sat less than 2 feet away from the nMP and if I listen really really carefully I can just about make out the fan (if I hold my breath), although it may be a pin dropping in the room next door.
You are all going to love your new machines!!!
AJ, thank you for posting to alert us about the potentially dire health risks associated with nMP ownership.
Anoxia can lead to brain damage or even death! Prolonged breath-holding, while straining to hear the fan, poses a serious work-place hazard. It is also possible that your continuing inability to hear the fan indicates that you are already suffering lasting harm from another insidious risk to which you alluded: deafening silence.
If this condition persists (or worsens) think of the consequences. Do you have spare time to learn sign language right now without seriously cutting into productive work time? Even if total deafness does not ensue, prolonged sensory deprivation can lead to psychological problems and is considered a form of torture.
I was going to selflessly come to your aid by offering to take this dangerous system off of your hands (I would even have paid for shipping). Then I realized that your workspace would be even quieter without the nMP and increase your risk. In that light, my offer might not be so clearly beneficial to you.
If a keg and a case of vuvuzelas outside your window would help, perhaps some members of this community would bravely come to your aid by making some noise.
Until a more permanent solution is found, please take steps to protect yourself: play bongos; rip out the new carpet and learn to tap dance; leave a vacuum cleaner or hair dryer running on or near your desk. However you do so, please find a way to use the system safely and keep us informed if you come up with workable solutions to these problems.
This is indeed a most serious problem. I have found a solution, though! If the silence becomes too much for me, I ask the present Mrs Me to come into the room where she quite happily speaks constantly (seemingly without the need to draw breath at any point). This level of background noise is sufficient to prevent me from going stark raving mad. However, if she ever has to pop out I've decided to wear a very loud shirt to help circumvent a possible relapse until her return.
I don't think it was the fan I could hear. This machine is so quiet, the only way you can hear anything it all is if you practically shove your entire head into the "trash can" opening at the top. Amazing piece of engineering.
This may or may not help, but my old Mac Pro Bluetooth is one of the ones with either a miswired or weak antenna. After fiddling with the antenna leads and getting nowhere, I just pulled the board.
I bought an IOGEAR GBU521 then plugged it into a USB extension cable so that it sits right next to my Bluetooth keyboard / trackpad / mouse on my desk.
You will still have Bluetooth latency, but this brings it down to the minimum amount possible. I also swear that it increases the battery life of my input devices, since the old Mac Pro Bluetooth had a weak signal that had to travel through my desk.
Apple has this problem in hand, literally. The iWatch will be coming out telling you among other things if you have enough blood flow, oxygen levels in the blood, blood pressure and if a heart attack is imminent. It's all part of their innovation plan! The more nPro's they sell the bigger the halo affect!
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OH and this explains the delay in deliveries. The iWatch isn't quite ready yet. They don't want to risk loosing too many customers.
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OH and this explains the delay in deliveries. The iWatch isn't quite ready yet. They don't want to risk loosing too many customers.
Another hang in there email...
So yet another hang in there email arrives today...
Credit card was pre authorized Friday but still the dreaded 'Processing Items' showing for me....
Dear...
We'd like to give you another update on the status of your Mac Pro order.
Your Mac Pro is still scheduled to ship in February 2014. We'll send you an email notification with the delivery date and tracking information once its on its way.
For the most up-to-date delivery information, visit Order Status on the Apple Online Store. If you have an iOS device, you can check your order status using the Apple Store appfor iPad or iPhone.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to getting the new Mac Pro to you as soon as possible.
The Apple Online Store
So yet another hang in there email arrives today...
Credit card was pre authorized Friday but still the dreaded 'Processing Items' showing for me....
Dear...
We'd like to give you another update on the status of your Mac Pro order.
Your Mac Pro is still scheduled to ship in February 2014. We'll send you an email notification with the delivery date and tracking information once its on its way.
For the most up-to-date delivery information, visit Order Status on the Apple Online Store. If you have an iOS device, you can check your order status using the Apple Store appfor iPad or iPhone.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to getting the new Mac Pro to you as soon as possible.
The Apple Online Store
Standard email that some of us got as well, just a few weeks before you though
Did the email Tim Cook / receive call from Apple rep thing. No real information given but maybe mine will miraculously ship sooner now.
It couldn't hurt. I spoke to an apple rep on the phone Friday and my order was "shipped" the next day. I have a tracking number, but no estimated dates yet, since UPS doesn't have the package yet.
We had a followup e-mail conversation, in which I said that I'm not so much disappointed by the fact that it's not here yet (after all they said February and they still have 10 days to honour that), but that they're sticking by the fact that orders are being shipped in the order received. She replied by saying "orders are being shipped in the order received". Helpful!
First time poster, been lurking on the nMP desperation thread for a good chunk of time.
Mine was purchased through the Apple Store on 12/23 with a corporate discount. 6-Core, fully loaded everywhere else.
Not had a peep of movement on the e-mail or order status train. Still says February. Not had a credit card auth that I'm aware of either.
I've noticed some of you mentioning more precise dates at the end of February and I'm wondering if your orders say anything in particular or that's just hopeful guesstimating?
Also, one more item I find interesting. I've already been charged for Applecare, I'm wondering if the date on the plan is active from that point or from the point in which I get the machine.
Mine was purchased through the Apple Store on 12/23 with a corporate discount. 6-Core, fully loaded everywhere else.
Not had a peep of movement on the e-mail or order status train. Still says February. Not had a credit card auth that I'm aware of either.
I've noticed some of you mentioning more precise dates at the end of February and I'm wondering if your orders say anything in particular or that's just hopeful guesstimating?
Also, one more item I find interesting. I've already been charged for Applecare, I'm wondering if the date on the plan is active from that point or from the point in which I get the machine.
Friday, I sent an email to T. Cook and received a phone call form an "executive team" member--she didn't have much to say other than to repeat the "in February" mantra. Today, I received another email from Apple telling me more of the same; that is, a repeat of "in February."
After ordering on the first day, and now going into a ninth week of waiting with such minimal, say-nothing, communication makes me wonder what's going on with Apple. I'm not such which is more maddening, the wait or the lack of any meaningful communication.
After ordering on the first day, and now going into a ninth week of waiting with such minimal, say-nothing, communication makes me wonder what's going on with Apple. I'm not such which is more maddening, the wait or the lack of any meaningful communication.
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Not quite:
The first one (2/4) said:
Thank you for your recent order. We know you’re excited to get started with your new Mac Pro, so we’d like to give you a quick update on the status of your order.
Your Mac Pro is scheduled to ship in February. When it does ship, we’ll email you with a more specific delivery date.
This one (2/17) said:
We'd like to give you another update on the status of your Mac Pro order.
Your Mac Pro is still scheduled to ship in February. We'll send you an email notification with the delivery date and tracking information once it’s on its way.
Apparently Apple thinks I'm no longer excited
When I spoke with a member of the business services team on Friday, he insisted that the orders were being processed FIFO, but they wouldn't hold up the production line if all of the parts required for a particular CTO weren't available.
I pointed out that I had looked at the fulfilled orders on the spreadsheets here and that an exact match for my CTO ordered two weeks after mine had already been delivered to a different purchaser a couple weeks ago and asked if some customers or stores were being prioritized differently with VIP treatment. He claimed that that didn't happen and I should see a shipment before the end of the month. The next day is when the status switched to shipped for my order....
I did the Tim Cook email thing last week as well. Got a reply from Kim - is that who you are all dealing with? I noticed everyone saying "she". Also got no substantial info, hence me not even posting about it. I did already recieve a hang in there email earlier this month but this morning i had the pleasure of being faked out by yet another one. Fingers crossed that it ships this week.
