Picking the right time to buy a new Mac or iPod
There’s nothing worse than when you buy a new gadget or computer only to find that a better model comes out a week later for about the same price.
The problem is seems to be more acute in the Apple world, because Apple updates its product lines quite often, certainly more often than other manufacturers of MP3 players, home entertainment devices and computers.
Sure, you can buy PCs with the same processors, memory, motherboards and graphics cards from the likes of Acer, Lenovo or Dell. What you don’t get is the reliability of OSX.
If you want a Mac upgrade usually the answer is to just buy a new Mac. But when is the right time to buy that new Mac or iPod. MacRumors thinks it has the answer.
According to MacRumors the current generation of iPods and iPod Nanos are approaching their end of life cycle so its recommendation is only buy if you absolutely positively need one.
Since the iPod Shuffle was just recently updated, it’s safe to buy as it will be around for a while longer.
Updates to practically the entire Mac line are expected save for the MacBook so if you are eyeing that MacBook Pro, Mac Pro or iMac, don’t buy it.
At the very least, wait for Leopard to come out, it is doubtful Apple will offer free updates to Leopard for even recent purchases of Macs with Tiger on them. I’m holding out for Leopard.
It is rumored that when Leopard releases the MacBook Pros will be updated with quad core Intel processors. They’re stuffing quad-core processors in laptops? I’ll believe it when I see it.
Take this with a grain of salt, we know that MacRumors isn’t exactly the most reliable source on the internet – it is called MacRumors after all - but the guys there do come up with some interesting ideas.
They were right about the switch to Intel processors but wrong about a new G5 processor. A new Power processor has materialized in the form of the IBM Power6 for use in servers but will probably never see use in Apple or any desktop computer.
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