MacBook Pro delayed
According to the Apple’s online store, the MacBook Pro availability was changed to 3 - 4 weeks pushing it back to March. However, according to Razorblade, apple already began shipping MacBook Pro to Apple reseller in Indonesia.
This delay is probably cause by limited supplies of Intel Core Duo processor. There was a review on iMac Intel, over at Anandtech that mention this shortage of supplies problem. Quoting from the article:
With the Core Duo, Intel not only introduced a reasonably sized change in microarchitecture, they also made the shift to 65nm on this semi-new architecture. The end result seems to be that availability of Core Duo processors and chipsets just isn’t all that great. In fact, unless you are a Tier 1 OEM or ODM, we’re hearing that you aren’t getting Core Duo chips until sometime next quarter!
With limited supplies, all of Intel’s partners were limited in what they could bring to market based on Core Duo, and when. That’s why one of Intel’s strongest partners, Dell, made their first Core Duo product a higher priced 17” model that would sell in lower quantities than a lower priced mainstream solution.
I’m not sure if anyone who pre-ordered their MacBook Pro would receive anything this month. Let’s just wait and see!
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