Try looking at it one of these ways:
(A) This isn't news, it's entertainment. Everyone's cheering for the underdog AMD, partly 'cause it's easier for little ol' us to identity with than giant Intel and partly because the fun will end if Intel kills AMD.
(B) We don't want to pay either of 'em $2000, so we shift our support to whoever's the underdog in order to prolong the price/performance war.
Lessee...$800 for the (base model) old iMac, $1100 for the new eMac. Dumping the old iMac would boost Apple's lure-'em-into-the-showroom price by $300 (37.5%). That doesn't sounds like a smart move.
Not to say that the old iMac line couldn't use some freshing up, starting with the new IBM G3 CPU that they just added to the iBooks.
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Try looking at it one of these ways: (A) This isn't news, it's entertainment. Everyone's cheering for the underdog AMD, partly 'cause it's easier for little ol' us to identity with than giant Intel and partly because the fun will end if Intel kills AMD. (B) We don't want to pay either of 'em $2000, so we shift our support to whoever's the underdog in order to prolong the price/performance war.
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Lessee...$800 for the (base model) old iMac, $1100 for the new eMac. Dumping the old iMac would boost Apple's lure-'em-into-the-showroom price by $300 (37.5%). That doesn't sounds like a smart move. Not to say that the old iMac line couldn't use some freshing up, starting with the new IBM G3 CPU that they just added to the iBooks.