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- From: brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: To wait or not to wait - that is the question!
- Message-ID: <1026@kopasker.is>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:07:25 GMT
- Organization: Primary School of Kopasker, Iceland
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- Hi, netters,
- here at csmh (and at some other mac newsgroups as well) I have seen a lot of
- the question 'should I buy now or should I wait for the next line of Macs
- from Apple Computer, Inc.'? This question is not a new one - it has been
- asked before (should I buy a IIcx or wait for IIci and so on). I myself
- bought my SE20 late 1989, just to find out that if I'd waited about one
- month longer, I could have had the brand new SE30. But I didn't wait,
- I bought.
- My advice to all first-time Mac buyers is: Don't wait, buy! As things are
- happening rather fast these days, it doesn't matter how long you wait.
- You can almost be sure that machine you buy will be outdated soon if com-
- pared to next line of Macs to come. But it doesn't really matter if your
- machine does the jobs YOU want it to do. And anyway, as you learn to use
- you computer, you will slowly but surely outgrow it and then start thinking
- of updating it to the newest machine around - and then you are caught at the
- same dilemma again.
-
- Bjorgvin R. Leifsson
- brl@kopasker.is
-