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Buyers guide recommendation "downgraded" for MBP/MB?

yetanotherdave

yetanotherdave

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It was
Buy only if you need it - Approaching the end of a cycle
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until today, when it changed to
Neutral - Mid product cycle
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The cycle remains at
Days Since Update 169 (Avg = 197)
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I know it's not gospel, I know it's a guide based on rumour, so I guess my question is, what's changed to make macrumours change their recommendation? There've been no notebook rumours or news for a while now.
 
yetanotherdave said:
It was

until today, when it changed to

The cycle remains at

I know it's not gospel, I know it's a guide based on rumour, so I guess my question is, what's changed to make macrumours change their recommendation? There've been no notebook rumours or news for a while now.
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I am willing to bet the fact that there hasn't been any notebook news in awhile and the fact that Snow Leopard looks like it will be an August/September/October release would be the reason. It may be likely that instead of do any sort of refresh now, that they wait until Snow Leopard is out and then announce a refresh.

I hope theny announce something in April involving a price drop. Oh well, I can dream.
 
IrishSniper87 said:
I am willing to bet the fact that there hasn't been any notebook news in awhile and the fact that Snow Leopard looks like it will be an August/September/October release would be the reason. It may be likely that instead of do any sort of refresh now, that they wait until Snow Leopard is out and then announce a refresh.

I hope theny announce something in April involving a price drop. Oh well, I can dream.
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I don't see that, from my (admittedly limited) apple memory (my first mac was a g4 mini with tiger) they don't seem to try and get hardware and software out at the same time, I wouldn't expect to see new anything with snow leopard. I think the next major refresh will be q4 09/early 2010, there will be some sort of memory/disk/cpu upgrade between now and then. I'm hoping for higher resolution screens and integrated battery too.
 
I think it's got to do with the news in the front page about the notebooks going with nehalem sometime in november.
 
I'm pretty sure the minor cpu upgrades they did to the 15" was to hold people over until an upgrade next fall. Happened with the original intels. 15" came out. 17" Came out a few months later. 15" bumped a tiny bit. The whole line is refreshed the next october.
 
You guys know the buyers guide isn't based on rumors, right? It's just an average of the number of days between updates.
 
I wouldnt follow that at all...like the others said, it is just the average amount of days between a refresh. I would really wait for rumors to appear. I would say the next update will be a small bumb maybe in May/June, then major change in November/December for the Holiday season.
 
m1stake said:
You guys know the buyers guide isn't based on rumors, right? It's just an average of the number of days between updates.
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Which is what made me question it. If it's based on math alone, it shouldn't go from "approaching end of cycle" to Neutral like that. Which made me wonder if something else had influenced this.
 
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