Oh my! Great idea! NOBODY EVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
Yup... Good ideas can't be repeated enough.
And like everybody on this board I believe and know.
No, I feel from the gut that if I repeat myself over and over again even the most stubborn opponent will understand that there might be thruth and a kind of righteousness in what I just repeated.
I can walk into the local PC shop and buy Conroe CPUs by the dozen. The big box makers like HP and Dell are still flogging a wide variety of previous generation CPUs, but they, unlike Apple, have more than one model in each category and compete in every price range from $299 on up.
I wonder how anyone can really figure out what they're buying in a PC when it's all so complicated. Forgetting all the other factors consider this horrendous list of currently available CPUs: Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium D Extreme, Pentium M, Celeron D, Celeron M, CoreDuo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Duo Extreme, Core 2 Duo mobile, Xeon, Xeon dual core, Sempron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, Opteron and Turion. AMD's performance factors are supposed to help but a Sempron 3400+ isn't equal to an Athlon 64 3400+ so those numbers just cause more confusion.
I don't really care that you can buy individual chips. I guess you're saying most of the PC makers aren't shipping conroe machines yet? If that's the case, one can't really blame apple for having them "late".
At this point, there's nothing confusing about the chips Apple is using. Each line generally has one chip, the only exception is the mini and I think most people can figure out the difference between a solo and duo. And I expect that to continue with future models.
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Originally Posted by demenas
As a consumer, you wouldn't like more choices available to you?:???
I'd like to see a midtower between the mini and Pro, but beyond that I think extra models would be redundant.
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Originally Posted by JeffDM
I would suggest that was a swing from way too many to way too few. To top it off, the prices of those lines haven't changed a whole lot since then despite the rest of the industry getting significantly cheaper. The original iMac was introduced at $1299 base price and that still remains.
But the specs have gone WAY up on those machines. And PC makers still sell machines in those price ranges, they've just added some stripped down budget machines at lower prices.
Best Buy and Office Depot are advertising conroe pc systems in their newspaper flyers in my area. Walk in and plunk down $1400 and you can walk out with a core 2 set up, monitor and all.
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Since most Macs sold are notebooks I would say there should be a third productline.
Instead of yet another desktop computer line
A Conroe Mac Pro will do for the expansionists.
Not this again!
Since most Macs sold are notebooks I would say there should be a third productline.
Instead of yet another desktop computer line
A Conroe Mac Pro will do for the expansionists.
Oh my! Great idea! NOBODY EVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
When is labor day?
Sep 4.
Sep 4.
Thank you! Next tuesday it is then..
Thank you! Next tuesday it is then..
Sep 5 - iMac with Conroe
Sep 19 - MacBook Pro with Merom
Sep 25 - New iPod nano (now with SanDisk, atleast 8GB of capacity)
so that apple site does repsond properly when the orders fillling in ... hehehe and also with less than two weeks delivery time in all the products.
Oh my! Great idea! NOBODY EVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
Yup... Good ideas can't be repeated enough.
And like everybody on this board I believe and know.
No, I feel from the gut that if I repeat myself over and over again even the most stubborn opponent will understand that there might be thruth and a kind of righteousness in what I just repeated.
What ever it was.
Thing...
I can walk into the local PC shop and buy Conroe CPUs by the dozen. The big box makers like HP and Dell are still flogging a wide variety of previous generation CPUs, but they, unlike Apple, have more than one model in each category and compete in every price range from $299 on up.
I wonder how anyone can really figure out what they're buying in a PC when it's all so complicated. Forgetting all the other factors consider this horrendous list of currently available CPUs: Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium D Extreme, Pentium M, Celeron D, Celeron M, CoreDuo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Duo Extreme, Core 2 Duo mobile, Xeon, Xeon dual core, Sempron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, Opteron and Turion. AMD's performance factors are supposed to help but a Sempron 3400+ isn't equal to an Athlon 64 3400+ so those numbers just cause more confusion.
I don't really care that you can buy individual chips. I guess you're saying most of the PC makers aren't shipping conroe machines yet? If that's the case, one can't really blame apple for having them "late".
At this point, there's nothing confusing about the chips Apple is using. Each line generally has one chip, the only exception is the mini and I think most people can figure out the difference between a solo and duo. And I expect that to continue with future models.
As a consumer, you wouldn't like more choices available to you?:???
I'd like to see a midtower between the mini and Pro, but beyond that I think extra models would be redundant.
I would suggest that was a swing from way too many to way too few. To top it off, the prices of those lines haven't changed a whole lot since then despite the rest of the industry getting significantly cheaper. The original iMac was introduced at $1299 base price and that still remains.
But the specs have gone WAY up on those machines. And PC makers still sell machines in those price ranges, they've just added some stripped down budget machines at lower prices.
Best Buy and Office Depot are advertising conroe pc systems in their newspaper flyers in my area. Walk in and plunk down $1400 and you can walk out with a core 2 set up, monitor and all.