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The conventional wisdom is this is why products aren't typically pre-announced, and why Apple says things like "transition will occur over a period of 2 years"
by rconti 6y ago
The conventional wisdom is this is why products aren't typically pre-announced, and why Apple says things like "transition will occur over a period of 2 years" and then actually happens in 6 months, like the Intel transition. That the new machines will be significantly faster.
This commentary was all over every Intel->ARM thread, until today, when suddenly every comment seemed to be that people were obviously buying Intel Macs to avoid having to buy ARM. Which doesn't really make sense -- you can always buy an Intel Mac up to and including the day the ARM machines drop. Probably at a steep discount, too. Probably some time after the ARM machines come out. There's no hurry.
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago> you can always buy an Intel Mac up to and including the day the ARM machines drop. You can, but when you know they're about to switch architectures, it's a pretty good guess that what they're not about to do is announce a whole new slate of devices using the old architecture. So even if they still sell them in two years, they'll probably still be the same specs, and without a price cut so as to discourage people from buying the existing one instead of the new one. So if you know you're going to buy the existing one, there's little reason to wait. Especially when they have a record of claiming they'll sell them for two years and then stopping after six months.
- rconti 6y agoFair. Maybe that's what kept me from shedding a tear of my recent top-o'-the-line Air purchase. That, or the knowledge that, after 9 years with the old one, It Was Time, one way or the other.