Re: whine whine whine
Originally posted by chubakka
Damn... no one has seen performance tests or even used on of these machines yet, OR have used Jaguar... and the bitching never ceases.
What do you people do that a 1.2 Dual wouldn't suffice?
Or does it just irk you that the PC's have higher megahertz?
If the PC and XP is so much better... then switch.
I don't believe that Macs are running just as fast as the top of the line
PCs... and I don't really care. When I need a new Powermac I'll buy one.
Did we get spoiled there for a while when macs were faster or just as fast as PCs? Are we so jaded now that only the reinvention of the Powermac can suffice?
Do you think all this bitching is really going to make Apple come out with a Quad 2 GHz PowerMac in December? If they did you would probably complain that it's not fast enough and there's no 2 button mouse.
no i don't - but when loyal mac users like myself are sitting on (corporate) money and seriously looking at the opposition, I expect apple shareholders will take notice. If nothing else, its becoming harder to justify to other workers why they should shell out a premium for apple hardware. Reports like the following are merely excuse making to shareholders:-
"Sales of the PowerMac collapsed this year, down 26 per cent from the same quarter last year, which the company attributed to "current economic conditions are having a pronounced negative impact on its professional and creative customers and that many of these customers continue to delay upgrades of their Power Macintosh systems due to the Company's ongoing transition to Mac OS X ... and in anticipation of certain software vendors transitioning their Macintosh applications to run natively in Mac OS X. Further, the Company did not experience the anticipated increase in Power Macintosh sales it expected following the introduction of Adobe's PhotoShop 7," in its most recent SEC filing"
No - I'm not buying because I dont see them as 'good value' - its no other reason than that. 4000 plus pounds is an AWFUL lot of money to pay for a fudged DDR solution and an overclocked 1 ghz dual. As I said earlier, I have absolutely no gripe with my iBook (or the tibook) - excellent design and value for money. I just wish this ethos spread throughout the range.
The more customers accept, cheer and defend poor business judgements, the less likelyhood campaigns like the current 'switch' will succeed.
The point made earlier about noise is very valid - we have had office wars over a noisy DEC workstation and who it sits near, resulting in somone turning it off and weeks worth of work being lost. Unix boxes are left on all the time, but background noise *is* an issue, and one some of us would like to minimize, if only for office harmony!
