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New iBooks and Apple Store
Vokbain writes "Apple just released new 800 and 900 MHz iBooks, and unveiled a redesigned Apple Store as well." Looks kinda cluttered to me.
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Looks kinda cluttered to me.
And Slashdot is what? The web's best use of white space?
Call it a hunch but Apple probably spend a few million dollars on testing and revising the hell out of this design. You wouldn't be seeing it on apple.com if they weren't sure it would increase sales and confuse users less than the old one. This is Apple we're talking about.
It seems pretty clear to me that Apple is holding their iBook line back, limiting them to G3s, to encourage sales of their pro laptops.
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Or maybe to keep the price down, perhaps? Nah, that couldn't be it
If you want a G4 iBook, get a 12-inch PowerBook. Really.
... for jumping the gun on technologies, why don't they just go to 1GHz G3's? Leftover stock and engineering complications aside, it seems to me that the top-of-the-line ibook by now should be a 1GHz G3 processor, 1GB RAM (640MB is too low of a minimum), 60GB Hard Drive (finally they moved up to this), Radeon 7500 64MB DDR, and Airport Extreme. Why can't they just move it up to Airport Extreme? I don't know much about Mac laptop internals, but would they have to change something on the motherboard, or do they just want to get rid of the old Airport cards lying around? I've got way too many questions to ask here... but i am glad that they finally upgraded the iBooks to 60GB. Now i might actually get one...
If they put all that stuff in the iBook, it would be competing against the pro model.
The model you describe would even have more RAM and a higher processor speed (though no AltiVec).
It would be a foolish move from a marketing point of view, and the internals would probably need a significant redesign to fit the differently-sized Airport Extreme card.
So that's why.
The main reason Apple hasn't updated the iBooks to 1ghz, as someone was suggesting they do, is due to the confusion that would be created between the 1ghz PB and the iBook. Most consumers don't understand how different the G3 and G4 are. If the iBook has very similar features to the Powerbook, it would confuse a lot of their market.
Ugh, that site makes my soul hurt.
My question is, why didn't they update the other stores - the Canada store for example? I would've thought that they would have one 'store' with different ways of getting to it, and based on which you used (Canada, US, UK, etc.) you'd get different prices, products, and some different links. How odd.
Still, it's more usable for software, but less usable for hardware. Perhaps Apple's noticed a trend towards buying software from the Apple store? It's the logical place for it, since it can be hard to find a store that stocks decent selections of Mac software.
Maybe this is to help make way for their music downloading service thingie. Hmm, would that mean the service is US-only? Bad thing.
--Dan
Apples and Oranges. Er....
I'm comparing machines at the same or similar price-point. The 12-inch PowerBook costs almost twice what I paid for my 600 MHz iBook, so you really can't compare them.
But, come on... even Apple didn't think enough of this to say that the iBooks have been upgraded their front page. Their store redesign is bigger news in their opinion.
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