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

To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (51135)	2/14/2006 9:18:31 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

>>Hasn't anybody here ever purchased Dells before? This sort of thing happens all the time - Intel tweaks a recipe or finds some cheaper Malaysian 12 year olds to work in the fabs and gets a yield boost (or whatever) - so Dell adds another radio button to choose from come purchase time. This kind of progress is normal in x86-land. Only in Apple-land can this be spun as "free upgrade". << WLD - This isn't the same as adding a radio button with a new option. People ordered machines with 1.67GHz and 1.83GHz cpus, and now those people will be receiving machines with (respectively) 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz chips. They (we) are getting faster machines than they ordered without paying more money. That's a free upgrade in any book. People who order the MacBook Pro from this point on, of course, aren't getting an upgrade. Just a faster machine. - Allen