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Originally Posted by zoranb All users/buyers whether they need a machine or not should get better treatment and information on what the company Apple will release so they dont get degraded machines especially at the same price. I think the iMacG5/intel iMac is one of the most characteristic case of bad treatment Apple has offered. |
Let's break this down like you say:
1) Apple sells you an iMac G5, which you deem perfectly acceptable for both price and performance. It performs well. You are happy with it.
2) Apple then releases a better iMac with a faster processor, and now, all of a sudden, your iMac G5 is "degraded?"
Please explain that to me -- it makes no sense. Your iMac G5 was perfectly acceptable, but now that there's something better and faster out there, you're NOT satisfied with it? Tell me this -- if Apple had NOT released an upgraded iMac and left the G5 iMac as the most powerful iMac, would you still feel this way?
Hey, technology changes. Constantly. At an alarming rate. Computers are constantly being upgraded, which is why you purchase for your needs, not to have the fastest computer available. The "fastest computer available" will only be the fastest for a short while, which could be a month or a year -- but you are guaranteed that it will not be the fastest computer forever.
I paid over $2000 for my G4 running at 400MHz in 1999. Should I be ticked off that I can now get a 2.0GHz G5 machine for that same price? There is only a difference of degree between that scenario and the iMac G5 -> iMac Core Duo scenario. In my case, 7 years later I can get a much more powerful computer for the same price. In your case, a few months later, you can get a slightly more powerful computer for the same price. It's only a difference of degree.
I just don't understand how a machine sitting in your home, isolated from the outside world, is suddenly and adversely affected by the release of a newer, faster machine. Did some magic particles come through the air and somehow degrade the performance of your computer when the new one was released?