April 10, 2015 10:13 AM EDT
A pple customers hoping to get the new gold MacBook on Friday were out of luck—the laptop quickly sold out.
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Visitors to Apple’s website Friday morning, the first day the new computer was on sale, could still order the MacBook in gold, but will face a wait of three to four weeks until it ships. Even customers who don’t care as much about the novel color will face slight delays: the new silver and space gray models have waits of one to three days until they can ship.
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