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Apple resets MacBook Pro ship times to 3-5 days, new models rumored to be on horizon

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Yes, you’d like the coolest new MacBook Pro.

And it may be just days away.

Per AppleInsider, Apple has bumped ship times for all US orders of its line of professional notebooks to three to five business days.

On Sunday, reports emerged that Apple had issued strict warnings to dealers not to open sealed pallet shipments that could arrive as early as Monday.

Further evidence that the secretive shipments could contain a significant update to Apple’s MacBook Pros came late Sunday when the company began delaying shipping times for online US orders of the notebooks from the usual 24 hour window to an estimate of three to five business days. Apple usually reserves this kind of across-the-board shipping delay for imminent new product releases.

Placeholder SKUs for new Apple-branded computers discovered Sunday in the Best Buy inventory system appeared to further corroborate the pending upgrade. Five models were listed on the electronics reseller’s Laptop Configuration tool ranging in price from US$1,199 to US$2,499.

Apple’s upgraded professional notebooks are expected to make the jump to Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture and could also include subtle changes to the chassis design. According to one recent report, Apple may even roll out Intel’s new high-speed optical connector technology, dubbed Light Peak, with the new MacBook Pro notebooks.

Other rumors have stated that each new MacBook Pro will arrive with its very own unicorn.

This unicorn will sing your favorite show tunes, but is still learning the songs to the new Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical currently playing on Broadway.

But it’ll bang out a mean score from “Showboat” if you give it a chance…