¶ Well wouldn’t ya just know it. Two weeks after receiving my iBook, Apple ups the specs to a 1 Ghz processor and doubles the memory capability. Thanks for nothing.
Such is (i)life. Thanks everyone for your OS X tips, and to Andy & Jay for last night’s timely SkillSwap. In a weird way the past fortnight evokes memories of holidays in foreign climes: everything’s different when you get there, but the weather’s beautiful, the food’s fantastic and the locals are friendly; after a two weeks it feels like home and you don’t want to leave.
Update. Dunstan has fallen foul of Apple as well. But not as irritatingly as a good friend of mine who bought his beautiful, superceded 17” PowerBook on two days before all the specs were increased and the prices reduced. Unfortunately for him, he didn’t buy direct from Apple and cannot take the machine back for an upgrade as it’s out of its packaging.
Why oh why can’t Apple make these announcements in advance and give consumers a chance? Sure, Apple won’t sell many machines in the interim but those lost purchases will be made a few weeks later. It’s got to be better than customers – especially those new to Apple – being made to feel gullible and conned.
Comments
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Perhaps it isn’t too late to send it back for a refund? For the extra power and memory, it would probably be worth the hassle.
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Thanks for that Simon. I’ve just phoned Apple and guess what: I’m 4 days late to change. Bugger. Still, they gave me a complaints email address to write to so I will be doing that.
The main issue for me is not the processor increase but the doubling of memory capacity. There’s a big difference between 612Mb and 1.2Gb!
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Oh yeah. Same thing happened to me, when Jaguar and the G4 iBooks came out one after another right after I bought mine.
Upon complaining, I got pounced on for ‘not reading the rumour sites’ to find out ahead of time. Cause apparently when you buy Apple, you’re supposed to spend your every waking minute investigating whether they will or they won’t release a new updrade?
Anyway. Despite this, you’ll still love your iBook and you’ll still love Apple. It’s just a tough kind of love.
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I’m over Apple/Mac, this will be my next laptop: http://proportable.g2.cc/w1promo.jpg
Even thinking about running linux on it…
(no, this isnt spam, i just cant find any other info about this Asus notebook)
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14 days, see if you can still return it.
Anyway, I was considering Apple for some time and I just think it is not worth it. :-
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Yeah, I won’t exactly pounce on you or anything, but here are the two quick rules that any Apple buyer should always observe:
1. It’s generally best to buy stuff right after it comes out. Apple rarely offers huge discounts on products after they’ve been out for awhile. They will simply put a product out, sell it for X dollars, and then come out with a new product for the same price a year or so later. So if you buy early, you’re getting the slowest depreciation hit.
2. Yes, it’s always good to read a few rumor sites before you buy. There is a lot of crap flying around, but morsels of truth are hidden amongst the punditry.
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Apple has a 10 calendar day return policy on computers. Maybe you can try to get a new one. It doesn’t hurt to try ;-) More on Apple ’s sales policies here http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/salespolicies.html
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Rich, almost the inverse happened to me. I bought my iBook (12” G4) late October last year and it’s been the top of the line until the new iBooks came out the other day. My advice if you ever buy Apple stuff again (which you will, trust me) check out these two sites and look for the product you will be buying.
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
http://apple.weblogsinc.com/ (I know there are a lot of ‘Apple news/rumour aggregation’ weblogs but I’ve found this is generally the best).
Oh and by the way, it’s only supported for 612MB of RAM but there are many people who have inserted in 1 Gig of RAM without problems ( http://www.google.com/search?q=1+gig+ram+ibook ).
Anyway, enjoy the iBook.
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I can sympathize… same thing has happened to me the last 4 Macs I’ve bought, including the 15” powerbook I’m using right now that I got a month ago.
Oh well, I’ll be ready to get a new one when the G5 Powerbooks are released, at least.
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Bummer! That happened to me when I got my iMac rev B, but life does go on :) Enjoy the iBook!
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Do you know Murphys rules? In a silly way they rule on Apple Macintoshs ten times harder. It IS always the badest moment to buy Apple hardware. If you buy it to late, a new product cycle will come and your iBook, iMac, PowerBook..etc. will be old. If you buy an iBook after a renewing of a product cycle, you will have quality failures and hardware problems which only appear on the newest models. That’s Apple, that’s, as you said, murphy’s life.
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My boyfriend is a special, because he bought me an ibook.
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12” G4 iBook laptop 1.2Ghz. And best of all, it’s a FREE laptop. I’m serious. Check this out! I’ve almost got mine:
http://www.notebooks4free.com/default.aspx?r=362041
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