Apple really needs to up the specs, especially the things that don't cost much.
40 GB Hard Drives a joke in the iMacs. 2 of the 3 models have those drives, and the high-end has 60 GB.
They should be 60/80/80. Don't have the the biggest Hard Drive model exclusively on the one with the SuperDrive. If I were to get an iMac, I don't realy think I would get the SuperDrive version. But I want the 800 MHz G4, the bigger hard drive, etc.
800/1 GHz/1 GHz
256/256/512
60/80/80
CDRW (preferably combo, but CDRW ok)/Combo/SuperDrive
GeForce4MX
15" LCD
1299/1499/1799
a version with a 17" LCD at 1999 would be great, I don't see a lower priced version, unless it was w/o SuperDrive but that would add to many models.
they can have 1 GHz iMacs if the towers really go all duals. Let's hope they do!
Overall, Apple needs to focuss more and more on portables. That's where the future of comuting lies.
I'm going to buy a computer within a couple months and I'm pretty sure its gonna be an iBook.
Back in January the iMacs seemed so "cool", but now, I'm not really that intersted.
The price hike was the biggest mistake. At first I was causiously optimistic. Apple needs to maintain adequate margins or they lose money.
But the timing was really bad, but then again they probably didn't know they would have inventory problems in a couple months.
They need to chop prices right away, or buy them back from ingram, techdata, and the major box movers and put in some better components.
Kinda like they did with the cube when they bought them back and stuck in a CDRW instead of the DVD. But that didn't work very well because they upped the price to 1599 from 1499 (which was down from 1799).
There's no doubt, portables are the future. I commute two to three hours a day. Lots of people do. Watching DVDs and playing games certainly beats staring at the floor. If Apple would only put a decent graphics card in the lowest priced laptop so game developers had something to write for....
The idiotic "Dude, It's a Dell" guy was on CNN, Live with Regis and Kelly, all over the place. He sold millions worth of inventory, a gigantic spike in the middle of a massive economic slowdown. That isn't consumers comparing specs. That's consumers being consumers. Apple just isn't any fun. An Apple computer purchased today is fast enough to accomplish any reasonable task 80% of the population might ask of it. Better specs don't mean kumquat. The computer is a consumer item now, and that means good advertising. Dancing computers. Music, colour, lights. Games loaded on the Apples in stores, and much more colourful ones than those silly PangeaSoft products. Apple needs to buy the rights to distribute something like Heroes III and load that on a large flat-panel screen in every store (Heroes III would have to run at double-res, so a 22" display). That will sell computers.
Believe it or not, if people see an iMac dance Pixar lamp style, to fast music, and the screen zooms in on mail switching to OmniWeb swiching to the Genie switching to several games switching to iTunes in time with the music, they'll believe that computer can do anything. It's the true way of the world. Steve just doesn't get it. He's urbane, thoughtful, and intense. He's NOTHING like consumers.
<strong>It's the true way of the world. Steve just doesn't get it. He's urbane, thoughtful, and intense. He's NOTHING like consumers.</strong><hr></blockquote>
True enough. I think he refuses to "pander" to consumers like this in his mind.
Lowest Model = 933MHz/128MB RAM/CDRW/15" LCD/ higher bus
Mid Model = 933GHz/256MB RAM/CDRW/17" LCD/ higher bus
High Model = 1GHz/512MB RAM/CDRW/17"LCD/ higher bus
Then G4's just get dual, that shouldn't cost too much but it would increase performance and specs alot...well the 17" might make it more expensive, but to increase a system bus it can't cost alot right? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Umm who 'actually' read the article closely, and not just immediately sound off with the wildest guesses of the "sky is falling" routine?
Firstly I had problems even trying to find any hard numbers as the writer tries to mix general PC data into mac data. Not exactly the best technique with such a title.
Second, this is from one distributor. The writer makes it seem really important distributor, but quickly moves on to comp usa, Apple retail stores, etc.
IF I didn't know any better I'll say this is poorly formatted scare, "eye catching", tactics. Never really going in to any specific anaylizing and doing quick no expanation numbers.
I'm sure there is something there, but then there is something with the whole industry, but really... I don't believe this article is being honest with readers.
for example..
[quote]
Inventories of iMacs at Ingram exist across all models.
<hr></blockquote>
But then adds
[quote]
According to a source close to the company,
<hr></blockquote>
[quote]
the distributor had more than 1,200 versions of the high-end iMac in stock as of last week.
<hr></blockquote>
1,200 version of iMacs exist?
And then it jumps to PC data which is HP and others which doesn't really have anything to really do with it
Then it jumps to comp usa which says..
[quote]
At the CompUSA store in downtown San Francisco, for example, 58 of the machines sit piled up in stacks throughout the store's main floor, ready for a waiting buyer.
<hr></blockquote>
Why would 58 boxes be on any show room floor?? And even then what compusa devotes THAT much space, for MACS no less. The PC side mush have 100 boxes then?
And again it jump to unamed generalized anaylist feelings. BUT wait, the next paragraph it implies that those anaylist are talking about PC sales, not macs...
You get my point, this article is mightly suspicious...
Comments
40 GB Hard Drives a joke in the iMacs. 2 of the 3 models have those drives, and the high-end has 60 GB.
They should be 60/80/80. Don't have the the biggest Hard Drive model exclusively on the one with the SuperDrive. If I were to get an iMac, I don't realy think I would get the SuperDrive version. But I want the 800 MHz G4, the bigger hard drive, etc.
800/1 GHz/1 GHz
256/256/512
60/80/80
CDRW (preferably combo, but CDRW ok)/Combo/SuperDrive
GeForce4MX
15" LCD
1299/1499/1799
a version with a 17" LCD at 1999 would be great, I don't see a lower priced version, unless it was w/o SuperDrive but that would add to many models.
they can have 1 GHz iMacs if the towers really go all duals. Let's hope they do!
Overall, Apple needs to focuss more and more on portables. That's where the future of comuting lies.
I'm going to buy a computer within a couple months and I'm pretty sure its gonna be an iBook.
Back in January the iMacs seemed so "cool", but now, I'm not really that intersted.
The price hike was the biggest mistake. At first I was causiously optimistic. Apple needs to maintain adequate margins or they lose money.
But the timing was really bad, but then again they probably didn't know they would have inventory problems in a couple months.
They need to chop prices right away, or buy them back from ingram, techdata, and the major box movers and put in some better components.
Kinda like they did with the cube when they bought them back and stuck in a CDRW instead of the DVD. But that didn't work very well because they upped the price to 1599 from 1499 (which was down from 1799).
The idiotic "Dude, It's a Dell" guy was on CNN, Live with Regis and Kelly, all over the place. He sold millions worth of inventory, a gigantic spike in the middle of a massive economic slowdown. That isn't consumers comparing specs. That's consumers being consumers. Apple just isn't any fun. An Apple computer purchased today is fast enough to accomplish any reasonable task 80% of the population might ask of it. Better specs don't mean kumquat. The computer is a consumer item now, and that means good advertising. Dancing computers. Music, colour, lights. Games loaded on the Apples in stores, and much more colourful ones than those silly PangeaSoft products. Apple needs to buy the rights to distribute something like Heroes III and load that on a large flat-panel screen in every store (Heroes III would have to run at double-res, so a 22" display). That will sell computers.
Believe it or not, if people see an iMac dance Pixar lamp style, to fast music, and the screen zooms in on mail switching to OmniWeb swiching to the Genie switching to several games switching to iTunes in time with the music, they'll believe that computer can do anything. It's the true way of the world. Steve just doesn't get it. He's urbane, thoughtful, and intense. He's NOTHING like consumers.
<strong>It's the true way of the world. Steve just doesn't get it. He's urbane, thoughtful, and intense. He's NOTHING like consumers.</strong><hr></blockquote>
True enough. I think he refuses to "pander" to consumers like this in his mind.
That 87 Macs per week is down from a 400 per week average. That's not for Apple, that's for one retailer.
-alcimedes
Lowest Model = 933MHz/128MB RAM/CDRW/15" LCD/ higher bus
Mid Model = 933GHz/256MB RAM/CDRW/17" LCD/ higher bus
High Model = 1GHz/512MB RAM/CDRW/17"LCD/ higher bus
Then G4's just get dual, that shouldn't cost too much but it would increase performance and specs alot...well the 17" might make it more expensive, but to increase a system bus it can't cost alot right? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Firstly I had problems even trying to find any hard numbers as the writer tries to mix general PC data into mac data. Not exactly the best technique with such a title.
Second, this is from one distributor. The writer makes it seem really important distributor, but quickly moves on to comp usa, Apple retail stores, etc.
IF I didn't know any better I'll say this is poorly formatted scare, "eye catching", tactics. Never really going in to any specific anaylizing and doing quick no expanation numbers.
I'm sure there is something there, but then there is something with the whole industry, but really... I don't believe this article is being honest with readers.
for example..
[quote]
Inventories of iMacs at Ingram exist across all models.
<hr></blockquote>
But then adds
[quote]
According to a source close to the company,
<hr></blockquote>
[quote]
the distributor had more than 1,200 versions of the high-end iMac in stock as of last week.
<hr></blockquote>
1,200 version of iMacs exist?
And then it jumps to PC data which is HP and others which doesn't really have anything to really do with it
Then it jumps to comp usa which says..
[quote]
At the CompUSA store in downtown San Francisco, for example, 58 of the machines sit piled up in stacks throughout the store's main floor, ready for a waiting buyer.
<hr></blockquote>
Why would 58 boxes be on any show room floor?? And even then what compusa devotes THAT much space, for MACS no less. The PC side mush have 100 boxes then?
And again it jump to unamed generalized anaylist feelings. BUT wait, the next paragraph it implies that those anaylist are talking about PC sales, not macs...
You get my point, this article is mightly suspicious...
~Kuku
[ 06-28-2002: Message edited by: Kuku ]</p>