Pre order When will this be ready for shipping? Because right know with free shipping, $100 shipping and no sales tax this is the cheapest place to get a core 2 duo iMac.Update: I took the plung and ordered it. It says it's estimated it's going to ship out Sept. 18, with an estimated arival of 20-21st. Pre order When will this be ready for shipping? Because right know with free shipping, $100 shipping and no sales tax this is the cheapest place to get a core 2 duo iMac.Update: I took... » Read More Pre order When will this be ready for shipping? Because right know with free shipping, $100 shipping and no sales tax this is the cheapest place to get a core 2 duo iMac.Update: I took the plung and ordered it. It says it's estimated it's going to ship out Sept. 18, with an estimated arival of 20-21st. « Show Less
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I don't know, I already bought it and it says "Shipping Soon" in my order details....Edit: Got mine on September 16th and it is a fantastic machine.
224291
I bought a 24" iMac last night (6th November'07) and Leopard wasn't pre-installed. I got a Leopard disk, and had to do the installation at home, which takes about an hour and half. The installation is a piece of cake, but I wish it came pre-installed.
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FYI - I preordered mine from Apple in the middle of Jan and just received it this week (2/25). So it isn't just Amazon - I have read posts that say some Apple stores have them - but I think that might be false.
512773
I think you sumed it up well. Seems like most of the business world is just waiting for the small supplies of the iTouch to be let out of the Apple warehouse. I talked again to the manager at Best Buy and he said they have no idea ahead of time what they will get. My guess is Amazon is in the same sitution. I have gotten items from Amazon also for years and a similiar thing came up when the HP or it was then Compaq iPaq PDA's first came out, the supply was way more then what was produced. This was the first really vague email response I had received from Amazon, usually they are pretty good. Hopefully Apple will get these things out the door fast ! I think you sumed it up well. Seems like most of the business world is just waiting for the small supplies of the iTouch to be let out of the Apple warehouse. I talked again to the manager at Best Buy and he said they have no idea ahead of time what they will get. My guess is Amazon is in the same sitution. I have gotten items from Amazon also for years and a similiar thing came up when the HP or it was then Compaq iPaq PDA's first came out, the supply was way more then what was produced. This was the first really vague email response I had received from Amazon, usually they are pretty... » Read More I think you sumed it up well. Seems like most of the business world is just waiting for the small supplies of the iTouch to be let out of the Apple warehouse. I talked again to the manager at Best Buy and he said they have no idea ahead of time what they will get. My guess is Amazon is in the same sitution. I have gotten items from Amazon also for years and a similiar thing came up when the HP or it was then Compaq iPaq PDA's first came out, the supply was way more then what was produced. This was the first really vague email response I had received from Amazon, usually they are pretty good. Hopefully Apple will get these things out the door fast ! « Show Less
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It is true that those of us who ordered from the Apple Store online have received our MacBook Air computers or they are in transit from Shanghai. But, we ordered within 48 hours of the introduction My local Apple Stores do not have demos yet. Mine will likely arrive before theirs. So, patience, folks. I am pleased to see pre-ordered MacBook Air computers already number 29 in Amazon Electronics.
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I'm extremely disappointed in Amazon. I pre-ordered this item on January 31st and not only has Apple been shipping them for almost a month now, but Amazon can't even give me an "estimated" ship date! This whole process has been a complete waste of time. I'm giving up on Amazon. They're completely useless.
647407
I just sent an email to them about this. I ordered it June 6th and chose 2-day and it says it will arrive June 10th but it has yet to ship. Pretty sad that you pay for 2-day shipping but yet it will end up taking 4 days......
60742
"As to the release date, Apple says the estimate date is the 11th." I think it is sooner cause when I had my ordered at apple.com I had an estimated delivery date of the 10th-14th and that it with their free shipping so it's slow. I canceled my order and got it here to save money.
224293
You can buy now with leopard included... but buy from apple.com. But be for warned. They are not shipping their computers with leopard preinstalled, they are just putting the DVD's in the box and you'll have to install yourself. Unacceptable if you ask me. They should be shipping computers with leopard pre installed in about 2-4 weeks.
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At this point, Apple seems to be sold out everywhere (Apple Retail Stores, Apple.com, Best Buy, etc.) and I was told by Apple that they are backordered 3-4 weeks. I don't know about Amazon.com's receipt of additional orders but I can imagine Apple would sell through themselves first before giving to other retailers. With that said, everyone I've spoken to at Apple has said the fastest way to get one is through their online store.
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I ordered mine on Sept 21 and still have had no luck, unfortunately, I can't just cancel my order and buy straight from apple because of some amazon gift cards I used to purchase it. When these gift cards are gone, I hope to not be doing much, if any, more business with amazon.
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Well I am the current owner who is also the seller of this MacBook. There is no guarantee other than what Amazon may offer. The price for the Mac is $630 and unfortunately I don't offer free shipping.
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As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from... » Read More As of March 3rd... Apple has shipped some from their online store and local stores have had some limited inventory. I asked Sunday afternoon at my local Apple store. They had two being used on display and said that they had sold some but no longer had any in inventory. The Apple online store indicates that they ship within 5-7 business days. I predict it will take a little while yet before Amazon starts to fulfill orders.As of March 15... Local Apple store still did not have any in stock. I do note that the 1TB version is soldout at BestBuy and they have dropped the price from $499 to $424, the 500GB version is also sold out at BestBuy and has price dropped from $299 to $254. « Show Less
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I too purchased on Wednesday morning (10am Pacific) and received an estimated May 24 - May 26 date however the macbook shipped on Friday (05/19) and is arriving Monday (05/22).I'm not sure why these are still set as "pre-order".Great price though with the rebate, planning on doing my own memory and hard disk drive upgrade (120GB).
777183
I ordered a blue one this morning and at the time I ordered it said shipping within 2-5 weeks. Now it just says this item is not yet released. Was considering a Dell Mini, but Dell's prices just aren't as good and they don't have a hard drive model.
1380047
Yes, unless you have Amazon Prime, after which you pay no shipping so you save $4 if you're ordering it from Apple or $7 if you don't have Prime and you get it in with free two day shipping. And you don't pay taxes.
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Amazon has to provide an estimated ship date. The open-ended delivery date will drive me to cancel my amazon order and go with apple.com. Customer's who ordered priority shipping must be very annoyed with Amazon right now. And the current $499.99 list price for the 500 GB hard drive is misleading and unfair (and a scam).