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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (51129)	2/14/2006 1:55:25 PM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 213177

Please elaborate, don't get what you mean.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (51129)	2/14/2006 4:14:43 PM
From: OrionX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

WLD, Is it not possible that Intel can't deliver enough of the low end processors that they're giving Apple the free upgrade? Still, I find it odd that Apple would hold off on announcing this so late in the game. Could it also be Apple's having trouble selling enough MBP's with demand not as robust as they expected? The truth may be somewhere in both.

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (51129)	2/14/2006 9:04:08 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213177

>>Not really. The (good) PC companies are generally much more proficient at figuring out what they will have available, and when. This isn't an "upgrade" so much as it is Apple screwing up its product pipeline.<< WLD - You kill me. I would guess that this change has more to do with Intel having a problem projecting chip availability. A supplier is responsible for letting their customers know what is going to be available to them, and in what quantities. Anyway, as a customer who ordered the MacBook Pro with a 1.83GHz processor, I don't feel like the pipeline has been "screwed up" by Apple's decision to ship it with a 2.0GHz processor instead. It definitely feels like an upgrade to me. - Allen