Apple’s 12-inch MacBook has been backordered since it was unveiled back in March. The Silver and Space Gray models have come in and out of stock a couple times, but the Gold model has been nearly impossible to nail down.
But right now MacMall has a range of models in-stock and available for shipment as soon as today including both standard configuration Gold models. What’s more, each model is $10 below Apple’s price and MacMall only charges sales tax at the time of purchase for buyers in a handful of states.
If you were to order those models right now from Apple.com it would take upwards of 5 weeks to receive your new Mac. Shipping times from other resellers aren’t much better: Best Buy shows 4-7 weeks, Amazon just says “This item has not yet been released,” and B&H just lists “coming soon.”
MacMall has gotten a couple MacBook inventory refreshes over the past few months, but they always sell out quickly.
The all-new 12-inch MacBook features an ultra-thin design, Force Touch, Retina display, and a reengineered keyboard. Not sure the new MacBook is for you? Take a minute to read our review.
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I would never order from Macmall.com because their customer service is just too horrible to deal with.
What are you basing that on? I’ve only had great experiences with them.
My own experiences aren’t that great with them. I tried to order Macbook Pro through them early in May 2015 and was indeed able to place order on their website successfully. Then they started calling me saying they needed to verify my order and thus I verified it. Then I received another call from them saying that the Macbook Pro I ordered and verified is not in stock anymore, so I kindly asked them why does it say on their website that it is in stock then? Customer service representative was quiet for some time looking into this issue and then he said that the computer is in stock after all and that it would be shipped soon. After all this confusing calls I went to log in on my account at Macmall.com to see what’s going on with my order and found out that they had placed orders for 3 different Macbook Pros under my account without informing anything about this to me. I was lucky in the end and was able to cancel all the order after chatting with several live chat service representatives and calls, but it definitely wasn’t too easy.
Needless to say, I bought my Macbook Pro elsewhere after all.
I have always had excellent service – Just ordered one. I have used their customer service a couple time and always find it very easy.