AppleInsider Staff
In a change to the Online Apple Store on Thursday, Apple is now quoting Mac Pro shipping availability at three to five weeks for all configurations, suggesting supply of the flagship Mac is finally catching up to demand.
Since launching the redesigned Mac Pro in December, Apple has struggled to keep up with demand and as recently as February was quoting nearly two-month delays in estimated ship times on new orders.
The situation appears to be improving, however, as current Online Apple Store estimates show new orders will be shipped out in three to five weeks for all configurations. When shipments were at their worst, Apple was quoting month ranges instead of weeks.
Ship-by dates have been slowly improving over April, with checks earlier in the month showing estimates pegged at 5-6 weeks, which moved up to 4-6 weeks on Apr. 11 and finally 4-5 weeks on Apr. 18.
Customers interested in the most powerful Mac ever will still need to place orders through Apple's online storefront, however, as in-store supplies are non-existent.
While Apple is still building up inventory, authorized resellers like MacMall and Adorama have limited supply of certain configurations as seen in AppleInsider's live Price Guides.
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33 Comments
[sarcasm] Sigh, demand is already dwindling so they're able to catch up? Just so worried about their innovation, the thing needed a bigger screen... [/sarcasm].
Que the ever argued memes. Is this the result of lower demand or increased availability? For the glass-half-empty crowd it’s always lower demand of course, just like the hand wringing over Q2’s iPad numbers. Life’s a bitch and then you die for some people (Constable Odo.)
My personal uninformed opinion is that power users have figured out this machine is a real beast and appealingly priced for the monster it is. Apple has increased production to meet growing demand.
My uninformed personal observation:
Apple hadn't seriously updated this machine in a loooong time, and then they dropped this snarling sexy uber powerful beast of a computer.
There is huge pent-up demand.
I'd even risk adding a "duh" after that. I'd bet $1000 it's in high demand.
Did I miss something, was the Mac Pro even mentioned during the earning call?
By Geekbench standards (which closely approximate the relative performance in my usage), the top-end Late 2013 Mac Pro is 21% faster than the top-end Mac Pro of 4 years ago.
Am I impressed? Nope.