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Feature Request: Subscribe to a buyer's guide

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goffredo

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Nov 28, 2009
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I'm in the market for a new Mac laptop for work, and I want to wait until a new laptop model is released because I'll be stuck with it for a long time. So I check the buyer's guide section frequently.

It would be nice if I could subscribe to an RSS feed for one of the sections of the buyer's guide. For example, an RSS feed corresponding to the "Portables" section, or even to http://retinamacbookpro.macrumors.com/.

As it is, the only feeds available to me seem to be All Headlines, Front Page, Mac Blog, iPhone/iOS Blog. The scope of the Mac Blog is too coarse: I don't care about Soundgarden playing at SXSW, and the new Apple store in Lansing, Michigan. I just want to know when there is news on the laptops.

Any suggestions?

Seems like kind of a common use case for the MacRumors buyer's guide so I wanted to suggest setting it up with feeds.
 
What would you just in the feed. Just items that are tagged in each individual product feed?

arn
 
jishaq said:
I'm in the market for a new Mac laptop for work, and I want to wait until a new laptop model is released because I'll be stuck with it for a long time. So I check the buyer's guide section frequently.

It would be nice if I could subscribe to an RSS feed for one of the sections of the buyer's guide. For example, an RSS feed corresponding to the "Portables" section, or even to http://retinamacbookpro.macrumors.com/.

As it is, the only feeds available to me seem to be All Headlines, Front Page, Mac Blog, iPhone/iOS Blog. The scope of the Mac Blog is too coarse: I don't care about Soundgarden playing at SXSW, and the new Apple store in Lansing, Michigan. I just want to know when there is news on the laptops.

Any suggestions?

Seems like kind of a common use case for the MacRumors buyer's guide so I wanted to suggest setting it up with feeds.
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Seems convenient, but just viewing the buyers guide really isn't that difficult or cumbersome to do. It's fairly simple to just view the guide whenever shopping for a product.
 
Could set up a newsletter feed here too, actually.

Check off the devices you're interested in and get an email (with affiliate links, natch) when they get updated.
 
arn said:
What would you just in the feed. Just items that are tagged in each individual product feed?
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My personal use case would be to have a notification show up in my RSS feeds (or email, or whatever) when any item under the Portables section has transitioned to a "Just Updated!" state.

I know this is quite fine-grained; a more coarse granularity would be to get a notification -- again, RSS feed or email or whatever -- anytime any item in the Buyer's Guide experiences any state transition. That is better than nothing.

wesk702 said:
just viewing the buyers guide really isn't that difficult or cumbersome to do
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I agree with that statement. Manually checking my email isn't really that difficult or cumbersome to do either, but I much prefer to have a push notification as soon as a new email comes in. Technology enables profound laziness.

jlgolson said:
Check off the devices you're interested in and get an email (with affiliate links, natch) when they get updated.
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Exactly.

Thanks for the discussions!
 
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