Comment Re:No chips means no chips (Score 1) 119
No chips is no prob. However, LOWERING specs that were advertised is a problem. If they lower prices, or offered to let people wait for what they ordered; then that would be another thing altogether. But they changed specs that were widely advertised. That's bad.
Another beef: how healthy is it to presell so many systems? Intel delays chips all the time, but they seldom promise them to vendors who then sell systems based on them before all the components are avalible. That's idiotic, and Apple should've known response would be enormous. (the first Mac I would've considered buying, even at their inflated prices) Logically, a wait of a few months would not matter much in a sales sense; but would allow for inventories to fill up a little more. The fact that the 500Mhz G4's apparently have trouble working at all (but were presold anyways) seems to say Apple jumped too soon.
What would've been bad about waiting till the X-mas rush to release the G4s in quantities/quality?
Another beef: how healthy is it to presell so many systems? Intel delays chips all the time, but they seldom promise them to vendors who then sell systems based on them before all the components are avalible. That's idiotic, and Apple should've known response would be enormous. (the first Mac I would've considered buying, even at their inflated prices) Logically, a wait of a few months would not matter much in a sales sense; but would allow for inventories to fill up a little more. The fact that the 500Mhz G4's apparently have trouble working at all (but were presold anyways) seems to say Apple jumped too soon.
What would've been bad about waiting till the X-mas rush to release the G4s in quantities/quality?
