Your tunnel-vision of MBP buyers keeps you from seeing the frustration that many of us have here! It sounds as though you upgrade to a new computer for s**** & giggles, every time a new product debuts ("...just for the sake of upgrading"). Most people upgrade when the new product's features, speed and conveniences make a difference. "Whiners" and "internet retards?" LOL! Unless Apple's marketing people are "retards," they'd instead see "knowledgable buyers" and "potential customers" - unless current 3% market share is their ultimate goal.
I upgrade notebooks about every 3 years (although I'm going on 4 years with my TiBook), and would have bought a MBP when they arrived last January. The deal-breaker for me was the lack of DL DVD-burning, with a
slow 4x DVD-R -
downgrades from the previous TiBook! Added to that was the soon-to-arrive Merom, giving me 64-bit capability for OS 10.5 and beyond. I don't give a rat's a** that the current OS is 32-bit ... I want some "future-proofing" when I spend $3k for a new notebook, since I'm not going to trade-up for glorious Santa Rosa next spring, just to be trendy! I'll keep, and use, my Merom MBP for a few years!
If you think this is "whining," (im)patiently waiting for Merom, and some feature upgrades (e.g. DVD-burning), then you're either blind, a fanatical "Apple Fan Boy®" who worships at the altar of his Stevesness, or one of those people who doesn't want to see others buy a product that outdates your "bleeding edge" Mac.
In the "bad old days," when Apple had to rely upon Moto, and then IBM, to (fail to) deliver the goods on decent notebook processors, we were totally kept in the dark, without any way to guage whether or not a new product was on the horizon. But it's no longer a matter of "trusting Apple" to give us the best available product - they're using the same damn parts as everyone else, and we see C2D shipping for everyone else's notebooks, except for Apple, and it's frustrating as hell! Sheesh! If Apple could even give a product announcement that "shipment for Merom MBP's will begin (fill in the date)", essentially the same as the competition is doing, that'd be great!
"Apple Fan Boys®" chastise us saying, "Apple doeesn't want you to know, 'cuz then you won't buy current stock!" Well, knowledgable buyers, like forum posters here,
aren't buying now, since Merom is an imminent release. And the vast majority of buyers, uninformed, non-researching buyers, would still buy (and
are buying), since they don't, and wouldn't, know better - or they can't wait, and need the product now, so they buy now.
I'm just tired of people p***ing and moaning about "whiners" in this thread! The most obnoxious "whining" is done by those chastising the people posting in this thread, who are mainly using this as a source of information, hoping for some clues to guide them ... and also using each other as an internet "support group" of people with common frustrations!
So, if people are upset by reading posts in this thread ... then kindly stay the hell out of it, and read something else!
(But that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong ..... )
iBorg
