With the memory shortage, many places you can’t buy most models on the spot. Wait times are almost two months for some machines right now.

https://tidbits.com/2026/08/10/mac-delivery-times-stretch-to...

If you have a business relationship with Apple, it's same-day service.

You don't even have to be a large corp for that, my org was 60 people with like 20 Macbooks and we had it.

FWIW if you live in a major metro area, Dell also does this, it's not terribly uncommon for business class machines.

The wait can be pretty short, I once got the charging port on my iPhone replaced same day at an Apple Store in Vegas