Mac Rumours today has receieved a word today from several customers who have received emails from Apple indicating that their launch-day purchases of Retina MacBook Pro machines through Apple's enterprise sales channel have been delayed by up to a month. The customers have been given shipping estimates up to 10 business days from the time of ordering the product. But now, yesterday emails from Apple cite new shipping dates of on or before July 25.
"Dear Apple Customer,
Thank you for your recent order.
Purchase Order#: xxxxxxxxxx
Sales Order#: xxxxxxxxxx
Ship-to Zip Code: xxxxx
Due to an unexpected delay, we are unable to ship the following item(s) by the date that you were recently quoted:
Z0ML, MBP 15.4/CTO
will now ship on or before
Jul 25, 2012
Please note that product availability can change rapidly, and it is possible that your order may ship much sooner than we anticipate. You may even receive a shipment confirmation between the time we send this email and the time that you read it."
We are unsure on exactly what's triggering the delays in shipping estimates, but those who contacted Mac Rumours about the delay had customised the high-end model with 768 GB of solid-state storage but did not upgrade from the stock 2.6 GHz processor.
The Retina Display MacBook Pro has been in high demand since its release during the keynote of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, with shipping estimates slipping to 2-3 weeks within hours of the launch before settling at 3-4 weeks a day later. Estimates have remained at the 3-4 week timeframe since the time it changed.
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