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| Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mark GUertin and his PCMCIA fetish 4:55 AM EDT Fri Apr 20, 2001 | |
| Doug Petrosky I would love to let this end but not with your miss direction. So to briefly reply to your "explanation". >>>SCSI may be dead on the desktop machines, but I assure you it is _very_ much alive in the world of servers<<<< We are talking about a laptop here right? Few people use their laptop as a server. >>> I don’t want to have to carry extra compmenets around with me<<< I was only recommending you carry two cables to handle your PCMCIA cards. NOTE: You and I are not debating drive bay. >>> People are absolutely scrambling to find powerbook G3 machines right now, they don't want to spend the $$ <<< People are not "scrambling" because of limitations of the Ti, they are scrambling for a deal. I have to say it was a tough choice between the Ti and a G3, but I choose size, weight and power. >>>I would like to see a real set of options from Apple's hardware offerings<<< I would too, and if Apple had 15% of the market I'm sure I would. They don't, so they can't, so they do the next best thing. They make systems aimed at the largest cross section of their market. >>>I am an IT manager and a networking specialist and demand more out of my computers than most.<<< By your own words you are saying your needs are not in the main stream. >>>a lot of people like me who have higher demands for the hardware have already bailed out of the Apple arena<<< Wow it is getting deep! Advanced people like you need more that Apple can provide. No, there is nothing you need to do on a laptop with SCSI that can't be done as well or better with firewire. The same is true in regard to zoomed video. So, I guess you fill that slot with your NIC and all is well even for you "Advanced" users. >>>when they see things like very fast Dell for 1/2 the price of new Apple hardware<<< I went looking for your $1300 dell laptop and it looked a lot like a poorly configured ibook. Their Professional systems are just as expensive as the Ti (8000 series with 15.1 monitor 700mhz PIII) If you want to continue this you have my email, but let me close with this. Apple's price on the Ti laptop is very competitive with prices of comparable Sony, Dell, and IBM laptops. So, although I would love to see the Ti sold for $1500 and I'm sure Apple would sell more of them for that price, it is not reasonable to demand it or condemn the system because of it. Further, If apple could have left SCSI, included a drivebay and had an additional PCMCIA slot without increasing the size, weight or cost of the Ti, I would be all for that too. What apple produced is a laptop, full featured enough for the vast majority of it's consumers, yet small enough and light enough to appeal to those people who want sub-notebooks. For most consumers (maybe you will accept 98%) this combination is very appealing. Which is obvious by sales figures as well as the responses you received here (from what I saw only about 1 person in 50 agreed with you). |
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