We’ve had a laptop on order since early July (paid for then I believe) & they have just put the delivery date back to November. Taking Moore’s Law as computer performance doubling every 18 months we can assume it’s going  to be less than state of the art by the time it arrives. Obviously it would have been quicker and cheaper to buy from ebay, at this rate second hand from ebay would have been more up to date.

That’s from DELL by the way, just in case you were thinking of placing an order (DELL in case you missed it). The other half dozen bits of kit ordered at the same time did turn up within just a few weeks of the order (speedy - relatively) but in 3 different deliveries. They can afford to waste money on carriers with the cash they are making on our laptop.