The Inquirer – Wednesday 08 August 2007:
THE RELEASE of Apple’s new super-sleek Imacs heralds more than just a design change for the Cappuccino-based firm – it marks some prime inventory movement for the boys at AMD/ATI.
Until yesterday, and the release of the new models, ATI had its graphics chips in just two of the thirteen standard Macs – its X1600 cards were available in the mid-range previous-gen Imacs – with Intel below and Nvidia 7300 above.
The new Imac line is all-ATI, instantly doubling the company’s share of the Mac graphics business.
Read your links too… I can make an appointment with you in 18months time to check the Fantasyland status…Really, I can set a memo on my calendar…
My friend, I don’t dig Dell. Nor HP. I never buy my PCs by brand. Only if I was crazy… There’s a lot of shops here I can buy custom built PCs. I can pick a suggested build and change components at will before I buy.
Take these two links, one is Apple Portugal. They don’t have the new mac mini yet. But when they will, the price will be the same in euros as dollars (a huge rip off…) So… 599 and 799.
Check all these:
http://www.chip7.pt/catalogo/index.php?cat=759&sessao=1
Aesthetics aside, how can you compare the entry level mini to the “College” here…twice the ram, faster, two graphics boards, 500Gb versus 80… And in a real form factor, a real box.
Now the mini is undeniably sexy, but it’s so hampered by the form facto it’s a joke as home PC. At least in my point of view…
Soldier for the cause? Not really. I have some very grave issues with some of the things Apple has done recently, things I regard as inexcusable and unacceptable. Give me 15 minutes with ol’ Steverino, and I guarantee he’d come outta that meeting with a red face…
However, they still beat the alternatives.
Look, I’m not that much of a Mac basher.
In fact I have some respect for the Mac as a well crafted machine and I must say it has a purpose in it’s price point and target market.
What really gives me the willies is the “Field distortion”.
And Mac fans. Those that consider that nothing coming out of Cupertino is bad…” just give’em some time… they’ll make it better on the next Upgrades”. That almost blind faith: “If God (steve) intended us to send MMS, it had a button on the front”. I used to be like that. Not anymore. I used to like clean minimalist furniture and Bauhaus style architecture. Designer chairs and stuff. The perfect world.
Not anymore. Perfection has a too big price tag. There’s a lot to be said on imperfection, on freedom, on bad taste.
That’s all… that’s all.
Ps. I was serious on that calendar thing…
Watch it, Joao – my predictions have this annoying habit of coming true…
Ok then, I’ve made a notch on google calendar (or agenda…) in 18 months time be sure to hang around here or the cagematch forums.
The way Apple stock has been performing for me, in 18 mos. I’ll be posting from the veranda of my Palm Beach estate…
OK ok ok man… Stock isn’t cash!
They way you (mac)guys reason is: “geez, Apple has made me richer and richer with stocks”. But you never sell’em. “Why sell? They’ll just come up and up”… Till the day they park. They get stuck and level out. And you start thinking it’s time to sell, but “hey, it’s Apple, they’ll be doing something spectacular and they’ll go up again”. And you never sell…till the day they tank for some reason. And you go “Damn those bloggers with the fake news, they cost me a million…” And you don’t sell because you “just know ” it’s temporary and they’ll come back up again…in fact you buy some more.
And then some heavyweight somewhere be it Microsoft, or Intel or Hollywood Pictures inc. comes and buys the company out. Or merges. Because of SOX, they won’t buy your stock… they won’t go through the stock market…Ãnd suddenly, no veranda, no estate, no Palm Beach…bummer.
But hey… OTOH it might not be so… and if you buy enough stock, you can retire just on the dividends…
Good luck man. I don’t know if you deserve it, but you might…
I never (OK, rarely) hold any stock overnight… No all eggs > single basket for me.
Smart…
Hey, is this post never going to end?
OK. I’m off. See you guys in another thread…
PS.
And since you were talking veranda over Palm Beach…
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=13159#comments