Fwd: Comments on new Dual 1.8 G5
Fwd: Comments on new Dual 1.8 G5
- Subject: Fwd: Comments on new Dual 1.8 G5
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:11:38 -0500
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From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
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Date: November 18, 2003 10:51:44 PM EST
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To: MacUsers User Group <email@hidden>
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Comments on new Dual 1.8 G5
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On 18-Nov-03, at 10:08 PM, MacUsers User Group wrote:
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> What does everyone think about this?
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I think anyone who is upset at Apple is probably assuming that Apple
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had prior knowledge of what they were going to do, like all the way
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back to when they put the single processor model on the market. i am
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not so sure that this is the case. If Apple suddenly and unexpectedly
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found that the supply of 1.8 Ghz G5 chips was much better than they
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had previously been advised by their supplier, what exactly would we
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have had them do? NOT bring out the new model for, say, another six
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months? Bring it out as fast as they could but charge a higher price
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so recent buyers of the single processor model would not feel so bad?
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It seems to me that all we can expect Apple to do at all times is to
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survey the marketplace and their own production capabilities and make
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the calls each day as they best see them that day.
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I think it can certainly do no harm to go on record with Apple that
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you are upset about this development, in hopes that they might come to
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the table with some sort of adjustment offer, but on the other hand I
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would not go so far as to be "mad" at Apple.
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I also think this particular situation is one where the actual "hurt"
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to the purchaser depends a great deal on what they are doing with
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their Mac. I expect that in YOUR case, you are probably running some
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of the higher end applications where having a dual processor setup
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really would make a difference in how fast you could get your work
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done. But if someone else was in exactly the same situation except
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that they primarily used their Mac for MS Office and Internet kinds of
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stuff, they probably would not see that much of a performance
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difference anyway. So what I am saying is that any "damages" that a
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purchaser may feel they have incurred are as much determined by how
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they use their particular Mac as the action which Apple has taken, and
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for that reason I think Apple could reasonably argue that there should
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NOT be any kind of adjustment program that covers all prior buyers of
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the single processor model in some uniform manner.
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My two cents (Canadian) worth, for what it's worth.
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Jim Foster
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President
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Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
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http://www.mause.ca
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