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Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by anti-pattern »

manaskarekar wrote: post #8

It would be helpful to turn the bar red if something becomes overdue. Perhaps take it one step further and start filling the bar again with the overdue number of days but with red.

Yeah that's something I'll probably do in the next few days. I just wanted to get something out there. Ship ship ship :)

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

JimEngland wrote: post #3

Only 106 days until a new Thunderbolt Display! I really hope that it turns into an "Apple TV" announcement.

A successor to Apple's current desktop display is more likely at least 7 months out. Look at the historical data: ignoring the outlier, Apple releases a new screen every 25 months - we're 18 months in. The last update was timed so because Apple switched from Mini DisplayPort to Thunderbolt.

http://arrival.io/apple-thunderbolt-display

As for Apple releasing a TV screen, I don't see it happening for at least a couple of years, if ever. There are too many things that need to be in place for Apple to be able to really change how people watch TV. For it to really shake things up, we need fast broadband everywhere, more (live) content in iTunes, a better input method (hand gestures? voice? touch?) to control the screen, and a more reliable wireless technology than (the current) WiFi.

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by simonsarris »

This is a great idea, and is especially pertinent to Mac fans who care about the hardware they are using.

Since Apple does not discount old hardware (even with 2-3 year old video cards, they charge the same amount as a brand new updated mac the very next week[1]), people buying a Macbook pro at the wrong end of the timeline can get totally shafted on equipment, especially from a price-per-performance view.

That feels a little dishonest to me, but most people don't seem to mind, and its not as if the hardware they are selling is ever bad, it will just be twice as good next week, and sold for the exact same price.

So it seems that it is one again one of the worst times to buy a Macbook pro.

[1] I wrote two articles in 2010, one in Feb and one in April, which detailed the times as the worst and best to buy an MBP, comparing prices and hardware. Only really interesting for posterity: http://simonsarris.com/blog/19-mac-envy http://simonsarris.com/blog/22-mac-envy-2

Re: Expected arrival times for Apple products

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Post by nwh »

simonsarris wrote: post #15

This is a great idea, and is especially pertinent to Mac fans who care about the hardware they are using. Since Apple does not discount old hardware (even with 2-3 year old video cards, they charge the same amount as a brand new updated mac the very next week[1]), people buying a Macbook pro at the wrong end of the timeline can get totally shafted on equipment, especially from a price-per-performance view. That feels…

If you want truly awful bang-for-buck, try the Mac Pro, it's hilariously overpriced for such an old machine. The CPU had to be swapped out because Intel stopped making the original ones.
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