Is the TI 2 Imminent?

[Totty]

Oh dear! Shall i sell my TI in preparation... or do I hold out. It's so hard cos i would get more money now if I sold it arrhhhhh!

[Ceri JC]

I got my Snow new for £660 (including the £100 money off vouchers I got free). I can't see it going much cheaper than that any time soon, irrespective of any new TI models being revealed. Particularly as I imagine any replacement for the TI range will replace the Polar/Keyboard as the 'full on' premium version, whereas the Snow will stay in its niche as the cut down/budget/portable Virus for some time yet.

[meisenhower]

I was wondering if something about a new model was in the air, given my recent experience in buying my new Virus.

I purchased my Virus Ti Kbd yesterday at Guitar Center. The keyboard guy indicated that they were no longer going to carry the Virus Ti at that particular store. The one they had was new, but had the OS 1.2.3 from Aug 06 and had been sitting since.

They put a "blowout" clearance sale price of $1319 (USD) and it was a total no brainer to buy it. I'll do the OS update today and should be golden.

That said, if a new model comes out, that will likely make a pretty big dent in any resale value for the one I just bought, but then again, considering what I paid for it, i don't see how I could get hurt.

Besides, I don't plan on selling anytime soon anyway.

[Totty]

Originally Posted by Ceri JC

I got my Snow new for £660 (including the £100 money off vouchers I got free). I can't see it going much cheaper than that any time soon, irrespective of any new TI models being revealed. Particularly as I imagine any replacement for the TI range will replace the Polar/Keyboard as the 'full on' premium version, whereas the Snow will stay in its niche as the cut down/budget/portable Virus for some time yet.

Yes if anything it'll be the TI/Polar Line, not the Snow. The Snow is a nice little earner for Access I'm sure.

[spindlenine]

If a new Virus comes out, I doubt the price will go up. They will probably do what Apple does when a product line is refreshed - keep the prices similar and discount the old models until they run out of the discontinued stock. From some of the posts here it sounds like they are discounting the old Virus TI out of the pipeline already, so that would indicate a new model on the horizon.

Incidentally, technology has a great way of getting cheaper and better over time. My original Mac Quicksilver G4 tower cost me $3,200 with a 933Mhz G4 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 17" cinema display with 1280x1024 resolution. Today, you can buy a 2.8Ghz Quad-Core PowerMac with 2GB of RAM and a 20" cinema display with 1680x1050 resolution for $2,898 - and that's including seven year's worth of inflation and the staggering increases in energy costs. Taking inflation in to account at 3%/year, that's a hell of a lot more computer for about $1,000 less!

- max