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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!alias!jboritz
- From: jboritz@alias.com (Jim Boritz)
- Subject: Re: To wait or not to wait - that is the question!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.160653.29633@alias.com>
- Sender: news@alias.com (News Owner)
- Organization: Alias Research Inc., Toronto ON Canada
- References: <1026@kopasker.is>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:06:53 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- brl@kopasker.is (Bjorgvin Runar Leifsson) writes:
- > [ Don't bother waiting ... ]
- >You can almost be sure that machine you buy will be outdated soon if com-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.
-
- One thing to consider in the buying process is buying price vs. future
- resale value. As new models are introduced and old models phased out or
- reduced in price the resale value of a Mac that you want to upgrade keeps
- dropping. This is especially true for low end Macs as Apple tries to become
- more price competitive.
-
- Two methods for minimizing this effect are:
- 1. Not buying a new model within the first few months of its introduction.
- 2. Buying an older model when the new models are introduced.
-
- For example, consider the Powerbook 100 and how its recent dumping at Price
- Clubs is bad for anyone that bought one a year ago and great for someone
- buying today. Admittedly this is an extreme case, but the Classic and LC
- have undergone similar price reductions with more to come.
- --
- Jim Boritz Alias Research Inc.
- jboritz@alias.com
- - You wouldn't buy your food from your dentist because he knows
- the most about chewing. -- a recent Borland Ad
-