Multiple MacDailyNews readers, along with ourselves, have been notified that our Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro orders are now being shipped.
According to our MacDailyNews order and several MDN readers’ orders, the 17-inch MacBook Pro units left Shanghai, China at 8:16 PM on May 6th. For those who opted for expedited shipping, tracking indicates May 10th as the date of delivery in U.S. buyers’ hands.
This shaves two days off Apple’s original estimated shipping date of the 12th, which was indicated at the time of our order made back in late April and which Apple changed just this morning via email.
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Appre Plo
What? No link? The information from this post must have been obtained from a sooper seekret mole within Apple.
maczealot,
What are you talking about? Read the article. MDN obviously have a 17″ MBP order themselves and are tracking it and reporting it from first hand knowledge (along with several other MDN readers).
I got my notification
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I can’t wait to get my hands on it!!!
MDN is getting a new Mactel so it can run Windows!!!!
The Apple MacBook Pro made by the fine craftsmen of People’s Republic of China Prison Industries, Inc. If you are laid off here, citizens, unlike Microsoft, it is permanent termination.
Thanks Apple, I feel so much better knowing that my purchases fund a repressive government. I hope that all Apple products come with labels indicating the country of origin so that potential customers will be aware of Apple’s business connections.
meatofmoose (and anybody else),
Any large company that does business all over the world will be global in its scope of operations. Expecting everything to be made domestically with a product like a computer is being naive.
Mr. Oblivious:
No conspicuous links to the original source were evident to me, just a bunch of adverts. An article without a reference is practically valueless. Either MDN neglected to post the link either to forgetfulness or intent, or is just guessing.
Do you always accept what is fed to you without confirmation?
maczealot, read it again:
“According to our MacDailyNews order and several MDN readers’ orders, the 17-inch MacBook Pro units left Shanghai, China at 8:16 PM on May 6th.”
Here´s the key to it:
“According to our MacDailyNews order…”
nsapap:
A lame excuse for making money at the expense of social freedom, Simon Legree. What are the words that describe a person who benefits from the political and economic enslavement of others for material gain, but wants to exercise all civil liberties himself without inhibition? Oh, yeah, blatant hypocrite, selfish scum, callous bastard.
I’m sure that Apple scoured the entire planet for a location to manufacturer their laptops, and the only place that met Apple’s rigorous standards of social egalitarianism, environmental friendliness, and political inclusion was…..Communist China.
Congratulations, Comrade Industrialist Jobs, your future and continual success is secure with us. Have you seen our new model worker number 194223? Requires only 1,100 kcal per day and works 12 hours a day, no holidays, no vacation time.
Forget it, Apple. I don’t need a MacBook Pro.
Apple could have chosen other nations as sites for business partners such as India, Korea, Poland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and South Africa. Each of these countries have far better social freedoms than the People’s Republic of China and deserve the benefits of economic growth more than the People’s Republic of China.
Got the word today … that puppy is scheduled for delivery on Wednesday the 10th.
Ohhh boy … ohhhhh boy
maczealot: criminally retarded.
And where do you think all those cute Disney (in which Steve Jobs is #1 single shareholder) plush dolls are made sold in all Disney stores and parks around the world? Commie China.
Wonder if Steve has ever been to commie China?
We Chinese exploit the worker to use the money to buy all your oil and make weapons so we can one day invade Taiwan!
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I wish companies would move production out of China to other countries.
And there needs to be a revolution by the people in China to overthrow the Communist dictatorship. How can we help start it?
Chinese have steadily become more free over the last 20-30 years, at least in economic terms. There is a serious argument that an increasing middle class is the key to the eventual democratization of China. Trade with China, such purchasing computers from them, is absolutely key to developing this middle class. On the other hand, there should be limits–Google and Yahoo assisting Communist China in enforcing censorship and punishing dissidents is over the line, way over.
Jake
After the Olympics in China the country will start to collapse.
Well, it´s already starting to implode from all the massive corruption in the dictatorial government, but mark 2008, 2009, 2010 on your calendars – viva la revolution!!!
Doctor (?):
After all those years of schooling, education, reading, and discussion with yer peers that’s all that you can up with for a pseudo-intelligent response. Please, try again. I’m anxious to read more what yer cognitively-challenged mind can dredge up from the recesses of yer limited vocabulary and diminutive powers of reasoning.
By the way, doc, in what advanced field of study did you obtain yer doctoral degree?
I suppose one way to change the world is to sit behind your computer and make complete off topic posts in a place such as this. Thank you for taking some of your very valuable time away from saving the world, to do so.
But what? No links? I’m supposed to just “BELIEVE” you?
Now, back on topic…
This website needs more ads.
Especially in the body of the text.
VonRocK:
If mention of Shanghai was not important to the topic of the MacBook Pro delivery date, then why was it included? Hmmm.
Another thing, I don’t care what you think regarding “off topic” posts, especially those dealing with the lack of social freedom and Apple’s intimate participation, cooperation, and collusion with countries that limit social freedom. In fact, here’s some more off topic stuff fer you to get yer little panties in a bind, hope you like it:
Actual excerpts from Apple’s Pages thesaurus function:
Criminal = Expedient
Slave = Permanent worker
Censorship = Choice
Repression = Education
Freedom = (no matches found)
VonRock:
Here ya go. Take all the time you need to read the material below, that is, if you don’t live in a country where these access to these sites are prohibited. But, you already know that, right?
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2002/08/02/china4187.htm
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97785929
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2004/12/chinese_crackdo.php
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA170691996
http://www.persecutionblog.com/2006/04/chinese_repress.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801875.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13133
Reading Less suns:
MDN slams Phillip Swann for using himself as a “resource” for a “news report” (see link below), and rightly so, but you apparently think that is just great that MDN can quote itself as a resource for information that cannot otherwise be confirmed from the original post.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9450/
Has there been a recent pandemic of short-term memory loss?
I saw a program on PBS where Nokia (one of the world’s largets cell phone manufactuers), hired an “Ethics Consultant” to travel to China and see exactly what the conditions where in their suppliers factories – not good. Working conditions were unsafe, workers were making approximately 25 cents an hour (or less), hazardous materials right out in the open and not stored correctly. The thing that really got me was that workers in a lot of these factories LIVE in company “dorms”. And guess what? – THEY PAY RENT. So they get paid 25 cents an hour and then have to pay their employer back half their wages in rent – the company store catch the coal mine owners used in the U.S. in the 1800’s-early 1900’s. One room in the dorms housed 8 women and was saller than my bedroom – with NO hot water. The company cafeteria consisted of a garbage can filled with some kind of soup. They did have a place to sit down and eat this rot though. When they questioned the supervisors in depth on some issues they became real nervous to say the least. When they requested to interview one worker IN PRIVATE with no supervisor around it was a MAJOR ordeal. They finally succeded, and the young woman explained some of what she deals with on a day to day basis, but seemed aprehensive. It was conscience pricking to say the least.
http://www.filmforum.org/films/decent.html
maczealot,
Reporting a fact from first hand knowledge is quite basic. MDN doesn’t need a link or a second source. They are the source…
Aw, forget it, why bother? You’re a moron.
maczealot, if you are saying that you don´t believe MDN actually ordered a MacBook Pro, well I can go along with that logic. MDN seems to use any method to secure its point in a story….or make up a story. They need a weekend story to generate ad hits to pay for the computer!