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The US Apple Store online has published a listing of shipping cutoffs for its most popular hardware products. It offers advice for standard ground and next-day shipping. Yes, there are some significant variations, especially for build-to-order Macs as well as ground shipping, but the salient dates, are Thursday, December 16 for ground and Thursday, December 23 for overnight.

[T]he Apple Online Store has established the following time table to be sure products purchased arrive by December 24th.  Here are the Order By dates for specific hot products.

As always it pays, both in terms of emotional energy and dollars, to get your shopping done well ahead of the deadlines.

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