I was visiting a couple of the forum sites that are in my routine and I cam across a posting complaining about Apple and the fact that they had just released the new MacBookPros and can the poster get an upgrade since they had just purchased a MacBookPro.
Here is my advise. By a computer when you need the computer.
Apple and other computer companies will always bring out something new, way sooner than you are ready for. One thing that I recommend is do your research. First research which computer will best meet your needs and in what configuration. Next find discussion boards and see what the rumors are. Are new laptops due next week? Can you wait a week to find out? If the answer is yes then wait a week. If you have to have a laptop to take with you on your business this week then by a computer this week. Something new is always going to come along. Be able to make an informed decision.
Here is my situation, I purchased a 1.83GHZ MacBookPro in August of this year. Apple was already selling the 2.0Ghz and 2.16Ghz models and wasn’t officially selling the 1.83 models from it online store. My local computer store still had 1.83 models at $1799. I can purchase a computer through work and the amount available is $1800. So I went ahead and purchased the 1.83 Ghz MacBookPro. At the time I had already heard rumors that maybe new MacBookPro would be coming out by the Christmas shopping season. My old computer was an aging Powerbook g4 (Titianium 550mhz) it was about 5 years old. And had seen better days. Do I wish that I had wait sure. Am I sorry that I didn’t, a little. Would, I change what I did no. I needed to replace the computer that I was currently using with something faster and newer so that I could take advantage of the new technologies. (Try doing 3D graphs in Pages or Keynote on a TiBook 550mhz or burning a DVD of a iPhoto slide show)
One last piece of advice, max out your hard drive size and your RAM if you can. Buy as much as you can afford. I have found that you will end up using your computer a lot longer than you had planned to, and eventually you will need more disk space and more memory. Remember the best time to buy a computer is when you need a computer.
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Computer Purchasing advise
I was visiting a couple of the forum sites that are in my routine and I cam across a posting complaining about Apple and the fact that they had just released the new MacBookPros and can the poster get an upgrade since they had just purchased a MacBookPro.
Here is my advise. By a computer when you need the computer.
Apple and other computer companies will always bring out something new, way sooner than you are ready for. One thing that I recommend is do your research. First research which computer will best meet your needs and in what configuration. Next find discussion boards and see what the rumors are. Are new laptops due next week? Can you wait a week to find out? If the answer is yes then wait a week. If you have to have a laptop to take with you on your business this week then by a computer this week. Something new is always going to come along. Be able to make an informed decision.
Here is my situation, I purchased a 1.83GHZ MacBookPro in August of this year. Apple was already selling the 2.0Ghz and 2.16Ghz models and wasn’t officially selling the 1.83 models from it online store. My local computer store still had 1.83 models at $1799. I can purchase a computer through work and the amount available is $1800. So I went ahead and purchased the 1.83 Ghz MacBookPro. At the time I had already heard rumors that maybe new MacBookPro would be coming out by the Christmas shopping season. My old computer was an aging Powerbook g4 (Titianium 550mhz) it was about 5 years old. And had seen better days. Do I wish that I had wait sure. Am I sorry that I didn’t, a little. Would, I change what I did no. I needed to replace the computer that I was currently using with something faster and newer so that I could take advantage of the new technologies. (Try doing 3D graphs in Pages or Keynote on a TiBook 550mhz or burning a DVD of a iPhoto slide show)
One last piece of advice, max out your hard drive size and your RAM if you can. Buy as much as you can afford. I have found that you will end up using your computer a lot longer than you had planned to, and eventually you will need more disk space and more memory. Remember the best time to buy a computer is when you need a computer.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Apple Commentary, Hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.