Poll: when do you plan to purchase your next Mac?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 6, 2008 at 3:55pm
In this week’s Macsimum Poll, we’re asking when you plan to purchase your next Mac. The poll is located on the right hand side of the home page, below the Macsimum Opinion column.
In last week’s poll we asked what you planned to do with your Apple stock. Fifty-nine percent said they’d buy more. Thirty-seven percent said they’d hold onto their stock. And five percent planned to sell.
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Jocca Says:
I am curious to see the new lineup of portable coming out soon, then I will make a decision.
Posted on October 06, 2008
Bob Says:
When the new MacBook Pro’s are released. Look’s like mid October
Bob
PowerBook G4 12”
Posted on October 06, 2008
DavidK Says:
Bring on the october fruit!
Posted on October 06, 2008
John Says:
I voted for MWSF but I’m actually planning for next June or thereabouts depending on when new product is released. That will be three years since my last purchase.
I’m looking forward to thinner, brighter, possibly larger displays (bigger than 17 inch), probably a 4 core GPU. Any other goodies are gravy; faster FireWire, better speakers, larger HD, Snow Leopard benefits, mystery features.
Posted on October 06, 2008
BDJ Says:
Remember when polls actually had a point to them?
Posted on October 07, 2008
Bob Forsberg Says:
When is not in time, but when the product is developed and available to purchase. Boosting a little power within existing product doesn’t produce sales in this economy.
A 36” wifi Apple Display with built in AppleTV would do it for me. No more cords to the desk from my MacPro.
Posted on October 07, 2008
David Says:
I’m waiting for something significant to change. On the hardware side that’s the Nehalem architecture that should hit the MacPro in January and other models throughout 2009. On the software side it’s Snow Leopard which is due in summer/fall of ‘09.
Because Apple will probably never make another expandable desktop under $2000, I am left with three choices, none of them very appealing:
1. pay through the nose for a MacPro,
2. buy multiple external hard drives and an iMac and try to accept that I’m going to have to throw away a perfectly good display in a few years when the computer inside it needs replacing.
3. build a hackintosh and hope it works properly.
The current trend toward notebook computers (and all-in-ones like the iMac) is great for the computer companies, but poor for consumers and terrible for the environment. I refuse to be held hostage and told I have to throw away a perfectly good display when my computer gets out of date. The 17” LCD my daughter uses has been hooked up to 3 different computers and will definitely be connected to at least one more before I retire it (unless it dies before that). I also resent the fact that changing the hard drive in an iMac (the only part that physically wears out) requires near complete dismantling which adds cost and/or destroys the warranty and introduces a totally unnecessary risk of breaking something in the process.
Posted on October 07, 2008
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Susan Says:
I plan to buy in mid-october
Posted on October 06, 2008