Comments on: Apple notebook event soon- could be uninspiring

By: ben

ben — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:10:08 +0000

@Oliver

nVidia had issues with almost every model from the 8xxx series and some of the 7xxx series. It wasn’t just one chip, it was a company-wide problem affecting entire generations of cards.

By: BigBird

BigBird — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:09:23 +0000

Where's the $899 Mac netbook that a little birdie I call Kevin told me about??

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:41:45 +0000

Regarding the nVidia thing… I’d think that the defects were found way late into the development cycle for the new products.

And it’s not like there are ton of competitor chips out there that you could just drop into the motherboard as with, say, hard disks.

Besides, just because one chip had a flaw doesn’t mean every subsequent chip has one, too. Or else Intel would have been out of business after their Pentium math problem.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:32:53 +0000

Woot! $900 24″ monitor!

Woot! $1800 MBA with stats to match a netbook!

Woot! MBP with a couple of minor upgrades and all the ports on one freakin’ side (WTF is up with that?)

Seriously, though, the new 13″ MBP is pretty fly (they should have come out with it years ago) and affordable and the new trackpad bizness might be kinda cool.

By: Weylund

Weylund — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:25:51 +0000

When has Apple been deterred by obviously defective parts? Seriously. I can’t recall a single machine of theirs that didn’t have some flaws, and Apple knew about most of them before they were released.

I wonder if Apple makes tons of money on returns / replacements somehow? Is it a tax write-off?