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Re: Great Feature

Originally posted by rkilcoyne
Every purchase I've made from Apple has been followed by price/feature regret. While I'm glad I made the switch, the typical problem of "I'm waiting until X comes out" is exacerbated by the fact that most hardware comes from a single source.

I have a friend who recently purchased a 22" Cinema Display for his 500MHz TiBook on the advice of Apple that it would work with the appropriate adapter. After waiting about 2 weeks for his adapter to show up he found the TiBook wouldn't support Millions of colors at full resolution. A few days later the price on the 22" drops significantly. He got about 5 days of use out of the monitor before the price was significantly dropped, yet CompUSA wouldn't accept the return.

Perhaps this feature could've helped him avoid this situation because I think we all know Apple certainly will not.

Rick
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X has been out for a long time, quit waiting.
 
Re: One more thing.

Originally posted by ipiloot
I think, that 12, 15 and 17 inc Powerbooks have to be separated. The same applies to 15 and 17 inch iMacs.
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Yeah, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it, too.

Anyway, great idea, but Apple is going to hate you even more now :p
 
Re: Great Feature

Originally posted by rkilcoyne
Every purchase I've made from Apple has been followed by price/feature regret. While I'm glad I made the switch, the typical problem of "I'm waiting until X comes out" is exacerbated by the fact that most hardware comes from a single source.

I have a friend who recently purchased a 22" Cinema Display for his 500MHz TiBook on the advice of Apple that it would work with the appropriate adapter. After waiting about 2 weeks for his adapter to show up he found the TiBook wouldn't support Millions of colors at full resolution. A few days later the price on the 22" drops significantly. He got about 5 days of use out of the monitor before the price was significantly dropped, yet CompUSA wouldn't accept the return.

Perhaps this feature could've helped him avoid this situation because I think we all know Apple certainly will not.

Rick
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You should always research a new item to see how long it has been on the market. If it has been out for a long time it is safe to anticipate an update. This goes for anything, not just Apple.

I have been reading these boards for a long time, and there is one thing that I have noticed. If Apple decided to start taking back recently purchased items whenever they put out an update; they would quickly go out of business. I have never seen people fuss so much about Apple making progress and updating their product lines. :eek:
 
fabulous idea, but please make the text bigger, i couldn't see it without zooming in
 
Better graphics, please

The bar graphs are okay, but for an easier to decipher "at-a-glance" graphic, I would suggest a timeline at the bottom of each product's graph with alternating colors between updates and a separate color for the current time.

This way you could also see the introduction, and everything would be in better perspective. Perhaps even include clickable update links to apple-history.com for each model so people could see the changes, or use your own with just the changes noted; the info is easily obtainable from MacTracker's program.

Something like this: (only with actual graphics): w= snow g=graphite b=blue

Intro:
wwwwwwwwgggggggggwwwwwwwgggggbbbb...
7/00.............9/01.........4/02..........1/03...???
 
whow, this is getting closer to stock trading: buy-buy-buy-SELL !! :D

I like it a lot. Now all you need to add a 'buy now' link next to each item and your sponsors will make a fortune... BT2M ? ;)
 
What about a vertical, dotted line which runs through the bars which shows the current overall average apple release time (this would change slightly with each new release). Then you could see how far over or under the line any product is, and which tend to be updated more quickly than average, which more slowly.
 
This is a great feature, Arn!

As much as I love Apple, I am dismayed that within their market, they have no competition. This is what makes the rumor sites vital to our community. We need the ability to get information about the future of the Mac world.

I applaud this effort; your site was already first on my list, and now it is that much more important to me.

Brilliant.
 
Originally posted by howard
fabulous idea, but please make the text bigger, i couldn't see it without zooming in
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Perhaps you folks that can't read small text should increase your standard point size in your browser preferences. Given, it's a size smaller than the main body of the site, but if you can't see or read one size smaller then you need to make some sort of adjustment to your eyes, your monitor rez (perhpas you're running a 20" at 2000x1500 or some cray rez), or you simply need to press the "text larger" button in IE or whatever browser you're using. If you're using an older version of netscape, all bets are off. :)
 
Excellent feature.

The good thing about this is now you have somewhere you can point people who aren't mac rumor junkies to to do some basic research on a new Apple purchase. My father, for example, could give a rats about all the rumors flying around, but he would appreciate some straightforward advice on a new purchase, and the likelyhood of an update.

I also think Apple probably hates to see this, but, really, they have no one to blame but themselves. It is a rational consumer reaction to the monopolist position Apple holds (in Apple hardware). (Please, no flames about apple not being a monopoly. It clearly is. That does not mean they are evil, it just means that thier economic model is different than a company which has to deal with direct-substitute competitors. See intel/dell road maps.)

Cheers,
prat
 
This is just perfect. Exactly what was needed. I was actually going to try and look up all the same information via mactracker and set up my own little database of when thigns were updated to try and predict when new system updates were going to transpire, but now I don't have to.
 
Originally posted by praetorian_x
I also think Apple probably hates to see this, but, really, they have no one to blame but themselves. It is a rational consumer reaction to the monopolist position Apple holds (in Apple hardware). (Please, no flames about apple not being a monopoly. It clearly is. That does not mean they are evil, it just means that thier economic model is different than a company which has to deal with direct-substitute competitors. See intel/dell road maps.)
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So how, in your opinion, should Apple fix the problem?
 
Its really is great guys! I remember asking for this a few months ago and this is absolutely what I wanted. The visulatization is perfect!
 
Originally posted by OSeXy!
What about a vertical, dotted line which runs through the bars which shows the current overall average apple release time (this would change slightly with each new release). Then you could see how far over or under the line any product is, and which tend to be updated more quickly than average, which more slowly.
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I think that this vertical line is a great idea ... what might make it slightly better would to also add a generic "Months" scale along the bottom (0-1-2-3-4-5-6-etc).

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For example, looking at the above looks like ~5 months is the average, and this product had previously been taking ~7 months...but it takes a minute of mental calculations to figure that out. Its easy enough to calcuate this.

Of course, the other question is what do we base the average value on? It will vary, especially if this expands from hardware into software.



-hh
 
Hey Arn...

Here's a suggestion...

On the "bars" that indicate length of time since last update, where you have the most recent colored magenta, how about color coding that bar? For example...

Red bar=don't buy
Yellow bar=neutral
Green bar=buy

Just a thought...
 
Originally posted by Timothy
Hey Arn...

Here's a suggestion...

On the "bars" that indicate length of time since last update, where you have the most recent colored magenta, how about color coding that bar? For example...

Red bar=don't buy
Yellow bar=neutral
Green bar=buy

Just a thought...
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thanks for the suggestions everyone... I've made some minor improvements to it in the last day or two.

I was considering having the "current" bar change color as it grows depending on the recs.

Will work on it.

As for the vertical line... if anyone has advice on how to accomplish that html-wise, I'm open to it.

arn
 
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