14 DAY TRIAL // The not-so-new-anymore Mac Pro (Late 2013) workstations are still hard to come by more than six months after launch, but Apple keeps improving the shipping times at a steady pace. The last status report from the online Apple store is 2-3 weeks waiting time.
Order a Mac Pro now and the company promises to deliver it three weeks tops, two if you’re lucky. This is one less week of waiting following another improvement in shipping time reported last week. In the past eight weeks, Apple has gone from over a month and a half waiting time to just two weeks, and the Cupertino giant shows no signs of stopping.
It isn’t yet clear if the long delivery estimates are caused by demand from professionals or simply because it’s hard to assemble these machines in a timely fashion. It may also have something to do with the fact that Apple has started building some of its products in America, and the Mac Pro is said to be exclusively assembled at a factory in Austin, Texas.
Not wanting to cast a bad light on any culture, but this is probably what you get when you’re not enforcing sweatshop policies (i.e. Taiwan’s Foxconn) on your workers. Let’s hope America builds them properly too.