So I try to sell back a practically new condition Engineering book I bought for nearly $200. What I get? $15. Barely enough to get a haircut. I've given up on buying books for college a long time ago. The school library + photocopy card == woot. That or make friends with a nerdy girl, get her to like you, then borrow her book for the entire term.
There was a study at UC Berkeley (where I used to go) that found out that each "new" edition was simply a rehash and reordering of the existing chapters. But since the "old" edition gets shit-canned so fast, students and professors are forced to buy the new book... which is gonna last about 2 semesters before it gets shit-canned for the next edition.
How many times have we heard this?
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And it all falls through.
Dell would never do it as long as Intel is throwing up money for grabs; they're just playing Jealous Wife Intel.
Let's also remember that AMD isn't as cheap as it used to be. Their processors rival Intel's in pricing. It will come down to whether or not the consumers trust AMD or not. Intel has always built a solid chipset for each platform, forcing each IP sharing partner to follow to the dot. AMD has not, and consequently, we had horrible third-party chipsets from some, let's leave un-named companies. Consumers on a whole only know Intel. AMD to them seems like a kind of bastard cousin sitting in the corner. We can thank the non-standardized chipsets and lack of mass marketing for that.
Intel ultimately has more marketing power, and more discounts to give Dell than AMD does. And theoretically, even *IF* Dell goes with AMD, they will also need to pressure the industry to make a good, stable IGP chipset for the Athlon64. The VIA S3 Unichrome and SiS 256 IGP solutions I've worked with are a bit less than satisfactory. That would force the possibility of a discrete video card, which will add $30-50 to the price in an industry where profit margins are razor thin. One good thing though, is that an Athlon64 will work great even with single channel memory (Dell hobbles their low-end machines SOO horribly).
Oh, and did I mention that the vast majority of consumers are idiots and will only be swayed by Intel and the Pentium namesake? They are only concerned with: 1./ Is it cheap? 2./ Does it work? They DON'T CARE as long as it works! Even if it's marginal!! I'm not by any means a fanboy (I've loved the Intel P6 in the past, and continue to love it's Pentium M grandchild), but this is a small lot of nerds asking huge Dell to do their bidding! PFFT.
Since you've clarified for me that they're not suing fans per se, I agree with your argument.
I still think that the external interface for GarageBand (the one that was leaked) will be hideously overpriced, but that aside!
the fellow below us gave a good argument as well. Thanks.
hmm.. That is a really valid argument. Thanks for the link.
I suppose that even if a product was "GREAT," with enough hype and speculation, the consumers might over expect what the product would deliver and be sorely disappointed. Mostly before I've seen that happen in the games industry.
Those Mac people are really a strange breed aren't they!
I'm not an Apple person personally, but I've got friends who go gaga over what they call "ivory sex."
They anticipate new products with huge zeal, and splurge huge amounts of money on things I think are senseless.
These sites are just building up the hype and getting Apple more customers and fans and most importantly, money!
I don't understand the point in suing their own fans.... I think they're going a bit too far in this secretive mode.
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So I try to sell back a practically new condition Engineering book I bought for nearly $200. What I get? $15. Barely enough to get a haircut. I've given up on buying books for college a long time ago. The school library + photocopy card == woot. That or make friends with a nerdy girl, get her to like you, then borrow her book for the entire term.
There was a study at UC Berkeley (where I used to go) that found out that each "new" edition was simply a rehash and reordering of the existing chapters. But since the "old" edition gets shit-canned so fast, students and professors are forced to buy the new book... which is gonna last about 2 semesters before it gets shit-canned for the next edition.
And it all falls through.
Dell would never do it as long as Intel is throwing up money for grabs; they're just playing Jealous Wife Intel.
Let's also remember that AMD isn't as cheap as it used to be. Their processors rival Intel's in pricing. It will come down to whether or not the consumers trust AMD or not. Intel has always built a solid chipset for each platform, forcing each IP sharing partner to follow to the dot. AMD has not, and consequently, we had horrible third-party chipsets from some, let's leave un-named companies. Consumers on a whole only know Intel. AMD to them seems like a kind of bastard cousin sitting in the corner. We can thank the non-standardized chipsets and lack of mass marketing for that.
Intel ultimately has more marketing power, and more discounts to give Dell than AMD does. And theoretically, even *IF* Dell goes with AMD, they will also need to pressure the industry to make a good, stable IGP chipset for the Athlon64. The VIA S3 Unichrome and SiS 256 IGP solutions I've worked with are a bit less than satisfactory. That would force the possibility of a discrete video card, which will add $30-50 to the price in an industry where profit margins are razor thin. One good thing though, is that an Athlon64 will work great even with single channel memory (Dell hobbles their low-end machines SOO horribly).
Oh, and did I mention that the vast majority of consumers are idiots and will only be swayed by Intel and the Pentium namesake? They are only concerned with: 1./ Is it cheap? 2./ Does it work? They DON'T CARE as long as it works! Even if it's marginal!! I'm not by any means a fanboy (I've loved the Intel P6 in the past, and continue to love it's Pentium M grandchild), but this is a small lot of nerds asking huge Dell to do their bidding! PFFT.
Since you've clarified for me that they're not suing fans per se, I agree with your argument. I still think that the external interface for GarageBand (the one that was leaked) will be hideously overpriced, but that aside! the fellow below us gave a good argument as well. Thanks.
hmm.. That is a really valid argument. Thanks for the link. I suppose that even if a product was "GREAT," with enough hype and speculation, the consumers might over expect what the product would deliver and be sorely disappointed. Mostly before I've seen that happen in the games industry. Those Mac people are really a strange breed aren't they!
I'm not an Apple person personally, but I've got friends who go gaga over what they call "ivory sex." They anticipate new products with huge zeal, and splurge huge amounts of money on things I think are senseless. These sites are just building up the hype and getting Apple more customers and fans and most importantly, money! I don't understand the point in suing their own fans.... I think they're going a bit too far in this secretive mode.