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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by akmiller on Thursday September 12, 2013 @07:05PM (#6377579)
I've had it take longer with Apple too but that's usually been on popular releases when they've gotten back-ordered. My wife's laptop was customized with 8gb of ram and 512gb ssd and its ship date was 1-2 days and it did ship 2 days later.

My main complaint was that after ordering a computer for 1800.00 it's very frustrating to be told that it will take 10-20 days just to "build" it, much less how long it will take to actually get to me.

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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by Samuel_Michon on Thursday September 12, 2013 @07:29PM (#6377664)
Judging from your comment and GP’s, it’s obvious that DELL is giving women special treatment ;)

I’ve ordered numerous BTO Macs. Most took only a few days, a few took over a week. In the cases that it took over a week, it was always when the model was recently released.

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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by vacri on Friday September 13, 2013 @05:20AM (#6379370)
MBA 'customisation' isn't really. It's just another one of the four variants (small/big memory/ssd) that they will have on the shelf. They'll just run through one shelf faster with the 'common' setup.
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