iLife Quietly Moves Intel Dual Core Only
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Feb 2009 07:05 UTC
Apple Apple has always been about moving forward, about pressing customers to buy the latest and greatest. Product pacing has been high in Cupertino (except for the Mac Mini, obviously), and this is obviously a good thing if you're an Apple bean counter. Most Apple fans more or less accept this planned obsolescence without question, but the company may have just gone a little too far.
E-mail Print r 3   · Read More · 60 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/g4t
Thread beginning with comment 347065
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: That's a shame
by alcibiades on Wed 4th Feb 2009 10:15 UTC in reply to "That's a shame"
alcibiades
Member since:
2005-10-12

Get a hackintosh, and carry on using your monitor. It will be cheap, fast, stable and expandable. If you don't want to do it yourself from scratch, you've got two choices, one is psystar, the other is efi-x. If you have someone put it together for you, get a gigabyte board and core 2 as specified in the macintouch review of efi-x, and you'll get a better quality main board than anything Apple will sell you at any price. And if you go for the Antec case they used, you'll even get a far better case with it.

You also can get a dual core Duo, rather than the ridiculously expensive quad core the macs use. Yes, they are going to be faster. A tiny amount faster for a huge amount more cash. We are well into diminishing returns at this point. And i7 is coming towards every buyer of a full priced Pro at this point, its like a bullet aimed right at your investment, just as the core 2 was a bullet aimed at your PPC investment. Planned obsolescence, here we come again.

The issue is never that you can duplicate the Mac for less. You cannot and should not want to. The issue is always that you can get something better fitted for purpose for far, far less.

Reply Parent Score: 7

RE[2]: That's a shame
by Sabon on Wed 4th Feb 2009 16:11 in reply to "RE: That's a shame"
Sabon Member since:
2005-07-06

"You also can get a dual core Duo, rather than the ridiculously expensive quad core the macs use.

The only Macs that use quad core are the Mac Pros (not to be confused with MacBook Pros). No iMac or any other mac currently has quad processors.

Reply Parent Score: 2

RE[3]: That's a shame
by alcibiades on Thu 5th Feb 2009 07:45 in reply to "RE[2]: That's a shame"
alcibiades Member since:
2005-10-12

He presumably will be in the market for a Pro rather than an iMac since he wants to carry on using his monitor, and its a Pro he has now.

The iMacs are fine, if that form factor is what you want, and if you need a new screen, but what lots of people want is a base unit under 1,000 with a decent graphics card, space for another hard drive or two, a fast core 2 processor, decent amount of memory, and the ability to use the monitor they already have.

This is not at all unreasonable, there are heaps of the things available for purchase. Computer users all over the world buy them by the million. Its just that Apple, perhaps for perfectly sound business reasons, refuses to stick its brand namne on one of them.

Apple is basically driving loyal users to get Hackintoshes. Why wait around? As the Macintouch review showed, and other reviews have showed, the result is excellent quality and also excellent value.

Reply Parent Score: 2