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Canadian MacBook Pro Retina Display Order Status / Availability Thread

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#1 ·
Many of us are extremely anxious to get a hold of the new 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina Display! Post your Apple Order Status here, or let us all know of any stores (Apple or Independent Dealers) that have stock! Independent Mac Dealers, feel free to post any availability in this thread. :)

 
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#41 ·
Talk about a slow route...
Due tomorrow. Should have been here Tuesday if like most previous Apple shipments..
Shipment Travel History
Jul 4, 2012 4:04 AM
In transit
Location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Jul 4, 2012 3:39 AM
Departed FedEx location
Location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Jul 4, 2012 2:01 AM
Arrived at FedEx location
Location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Jul 3, 2012 4:17 PM
Departed FedEx location
Location
ANCHORAGE, AK
Jul 2, 2012 2:48 PM
In transit
Location
ANCHORAGE, AK
Jul 2, 2012 12:06 PM
Arrived at FedEx location
Location
ANCHORAGE, AK
Jul 2, 2012 10:40 PM
In transit
Location
NARITA-SHI JP
Jul 2, 2012 5:21 AM
In transit
Location
SHANGHAI CN
Jul 2, 2012 12:37 AM
In transit
Location
SHANGHAI CN
Jul 2, 2012 12:36 AM
International shipment release - Import
Location
SHANGHAI CN
Jun 30, 2012 10:28 PM
Left FedEx origin facility
Location
SHANGHAI CN
Jun 30, 2012 9:08 PM
Picked up
Location
SHANGHAI CN
Details
Package received after FedEx cutoff
Jun 30, 2012 8:06 AM
Shipment information sent to FedEx
 
#42 ·
Mine said out for delivery yesterday with estimated delivery time on the 4th. Nothing came by 5 pm at work so I left. Its back at the sorting facility, not sure if it goes out again or what the routine, never ordered a computer online before.
 
#44 ·
Thats what I was hoping as it was listed as "out for delivery" but could not stick around work to wait later then 5. Would they have left a note, or something via tracking that no one was there to receive?
 
#46 ·
Well if did arrive about 20 mins ago, now I have a new RMBP in the box just waiting to be opened, but will have to wait till after 5 when I can take it home and get it prepped for business!
 
#48 ·
Hooray!!!!
Mine is scheduled for delivery on Monday.
It's in Louisville right now. I wonder if the US holiday may slow it up a tad more.
We shall see.
 
#49 ·
No power in parts of the US might kill your jumping for joy.
1.2 million in the central states still have no power and it's 100+ degrees.
 
#54 ·
Mine took the same routing as bringonthenite's order. After indianapolis, it went to Mississauga, Peterborough and then Ottawa. It arrived 1 day before Apple's furthest estimate, but 1 day after FedEX's expected delivery date (apparently the truck has already left Mississauga by the time the package was cleared by customs.

I had ordered on the 11th and received it on the 21st.
 
#56 ·
You are going to love the Retina display. I had a look at one in the Apple store a week or so back, it looked sharp and all but nothing "wow" I thought. I think it was the lighting in the store, or the glare, but now that I have one in front of me on my desk, its simply brilliant. Side by side with a 22 inch LED samsung, the samsung looks antiquated compared to it. Such a clean sharp image. Its a shame I will hardly use the retina display as working on a 15 inch screen will not work, much to small.
 
#59 ·
Not much of a comparison with a 22" Samsung.
Be interesting to see against a top line big monitor.

I'd be interested in how good it looks at 1024x768 ( for clients with vision issues )
 
#60 ·
Compared to my NEC 2690WUXI2:

Sharpness is MUCH better on the retina. Text is much crisper and reading is easy even at small font sizes. Colour gamut is significantly better on the NEC. Banding non-existent on the NEC but present on the Retina because of the 6-bit per channel panel. (To really see it in Lion, set your background to medium grey, put the computer to sleep and look at the login screen when it wakes up). The Retina pretty much covers all of sRGB, so its not bad at all, but not as good as the Dell RGB LED display in the Precision laptops.
 
#64 ·
That's interesting. That's the first UPS shipment I hear of for the new MBPs. I wish they would just use FedEX, UPS is far behind in customer service in my opinion.
 
#65 ·
I wonder if the Canadian Apple.ca store might be changing or alternating their couriers?

I had placed an order two weeks ago that I was expecting to get delivered last Friday as it was delivered from Nashville TN to Calgary mid week via FedEx, but for some strange reason it got shipped back to Nashville TN and again back to Calgary,(FedEx had no explanation), so I didn't receive it until this last Tuesday, after our Canada Day long weekend.

A second later ordered item arrived on the Thursday via UPS, which I thought a bit unusual.

Sorry, no new RMBP was among my recent orders. And my old mid 2008 MBP 15" still works for me thanks. ;)
 
#68 · (Edited)
Here's my summation of the order, estimate and delivery dates thus far:


Firefly
Ordered: June 11 (Launch Day)
Estimated: 7-10d
Received: June 22

idphoto
Ordered: June 11
Estimated:
Received: June 21

kmphotos
Ordered: June 13
Estimate: July 16
Received: Not Yet

Wonderings
Ordered: June 14
Estimated: July 17
Received: July 4

iFletcher
Ordered: June 15
Estimated: July 18
Received: July 12 (Not yet)

Mailman
Ordered: June 19
Estimated: July 20
Received: NOT YET

Mckitrick
Ordered: June 24
Estimate: July 25
Received: Not Yet
 
#70 ·
Bought the base model retina MBP at the Apple Store Sherway yesterday, in case folks were curious about stock.

Gorgeous thing. Screen and speed blows me away. Still quite hefty, but damn.
 
#71 ·
Still quite hefty, but damn.
When you compare or go side by side with the previous gen MBP, the RMBP feels like an Air.
 
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