Got a third e-mail stating the card has been charged and the order is shipping soon.
Indeed, card successfully charged. Charge shows as pending. I didn’t need to change currency like @Rupert_Woods but good tip, I would have been panicking!
I like how “next few business days” in the second e-mail = less than 12 hours. So I hope the “next few business days” in the third e-mail = today. Underpromise and overdeliver.
Just picturing Nirav slaving away authorizing credit card transactions at 3:20 AM EST (12:20 AM PST) then packing boxes.
Has anyone figured out how the queue system works? I ordered an i5 on August 13th, waiting patiently… but surprised to see some of the i7 models ordered much later already shipping!
My guess is just supply and demand. J think the demand for the i7 models is a lot lower so they can move through the queue faster with supply…as of yesterday you could still by a high end i7 in the October batch
It does seem to go by what they have on hand. Both the i5 and the midrange i7 seem popular, the high-end i7 less so.
It looks like the i5s sell out really early and those ordering it need to wait longer. Some are deferred to later batches than the other CPUs.
The midrange i7 seems to be shipping now.
For a while they didn’t sell all the high end i7s they had and you could get one at short notice in the nearest batch, while the other CPUs were in later batches.
I think there also might be a correlation between whether the DIY i5 orders also got memory and storage or went BYO. I want to hear from @suntoad who looks to be one of the farthest along orders, but hasn’t detailed exactly what he got other than the i5
It doesn’t seem to have affected @Corgieg’s order though. His is about identical to mine, just separated by a week. I hope that at most this is all that separates my delivery window from yours/theirs.
Oh boy… I also have ordered a mid-range i7 but requested a change to the order regarding the WiFi card as I had selected the vPro but later saw that the vPro needs the high range i7 to support the full vPro functionality… So I though to not leave anyone hanging waiting for a vPro for their machine I thought to replace the WiFi card and expedite things…
No email so far confirming the charge to my card… Hope it comes further down the line
There probably isn’t a line for the vpro wifi cards. They cost more, aren’t faster, and as you said, extra functionality locked unless you have vpro cpu.
In a prior message chain, @nrp made a comment about how things are shipping within a batch.
There is apparently a commonality issue. If your order is similar to many others, that forms a batch within a batch.
They seem to be picking stock and shipping units with similar accessories.
I finally learned how to reply to someone… Hold my beer Community!!!
Yeah it makes sense to expedite things to make it that way… I’m not even mad, it’s alright if it takes a bit more Hopefully it will come soon… Meanwhile I keep looking at my email, the community here and my order page…
Underpromise and overdeliver.
