Apple delaying new MacBook Pro pre-orders, no warning devices wouldn't arrive today

Some customers who custom-ordered one of Apple's new MacBook Pros and were promised October 26 delivery are instead waking up to find emails from the company inexplicably stating that their Mac won't actually arrive till December.

As the new MacBook Pro begins to arrive for the earliest preorder buyers, and as the models appears in Apple Stores too, some other orders have been unexpectedly delayed.

"There's been a change to your delivery date," says the email from Apple. "The most current delivery information is shown below. We'll notify you when your order ships."

Online complaints about the change are chiefly concerning delays on the 64GB 16-inch MacBook Pro, but AppleInsider has confirmed that some 14-inch models are seeing the same issue.

MacBook Pro predicted shipping dates are being pushed back by Apple

One example for a 14-inch model seen by AppleInsider has had its original shipping date of October 26 change to December 3 through December 10.

In each case, it appears that buyers affected had used Build to Order, sometimes called Configure to Order, to pick from Apple's various options. Regular, non-Build to Order models, are now appearing in stores for immediate pickup.

8 Comments

verne arase 11 Years · 479 comments

About 3 years ago

Oh oh. Mine was original scheduled for December 2-9, then got moved to November 17-24.

Mine is a 16" MacBook Pro, M1 Max with 32 GPU cores, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD.

Methinks the SSD puts it in CTO territory.

hucom2000 8 Years · 149 comments

I’m just waiting for a comment to surface that Tim Cook should resign…

shareef777 16 Years · 136 comments

My BTO 16” MBP M1 Max w/ 32core gpu, 64gb ram still shows 11/18-11/26. Sadly it showed a November delivery immediately after the store opened when I changed any default config. So seems that the 32core gpu M1 Max was always planned to be a delayed item. Even now, every base model, except for that one, shows as available for pickup today from my local Apple Store. Either they didn’t plan on having that particular config available day one, or they vastly underestimated the number of people that would opt for the higher chip.

melgross 20 Years · 33622 comments

This is all strange. I’m happy that mine has shipped. I doubt Apple can take it back.

shareef777 said:

My BTO 16” MBP M1 Max w/ 32core gpu, 64gb ram still shows 11/18-11/26. Sadly it showed a November delivery immediately after the store opened when I changed any default config. So seems that the 32core gpu M1 Max was always planned to be a delayed item. Even now, every base model, except for that one, shows as available for pickup today from my local Apple Store. Either they didn’t plan on having that particular config available day one, or they vastly underestimated the number of people that would opt for the higher chip.

Mine is a 16” 32 core model with 64GB RAM and 2TB drive. I don’t think it’s the 32 cores itself that’s the problem. Someone else here ordered the same config as mine. Was also told that it would arrive Nov 3-5, but now this Friday.

im sure it’s more than just we two.