pfarrell;490897 Wrote: > Howard Passman wrote: > > If I have spent $2k on a TP and couldn't get it repaired up to 10 > years > > after purchasing it, I would be very disappointed. I don't consider > 10 > > years that long for a audio component at that price point. > > I've had a number of PCs that I spent $7000 on, all of which where > obsolete and unfixable within a decade. These days, I can get a > suitable > professional development PC for under $2K, but not much under what new > Transporters are actually selling for (~~$1200) > > Perhaps your view was appropriate when audio components had no > computers, but nearly all of them as inexpensive as a Transporter do > today. Any ten year old computer is pretty much gone. > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Hi Pat, I can't say I agree with what you're saying, although I understand your train of thought. In my reality this is an audio component and should last 10 years easily. If the audio industry is headed the same direction as the PC industry, it's a real shame. My CD player is now 22 years old and still works like a champ. Parts may be scarce, but it is 22 years old not 1. A PC could and should last 10 years as long as the software demands don't exceed the units capabilities. That shouldn't be a problem with the TP. The only reason for the past 10 years that I've had to upgrade my PC has been due to Adobe and their never ending upgrades to Photoshop. I still have a Compaq that is 12 or 13 years old that runs like a champ. As long as I don't load something incompatible on there it runs fine. I'm fairly certain there's nothing in there I can't still get other than a new processor. I've had my TP about a year now and I guess what I'm trying to say is the darn thing should work for a long time and parts should be available for a good while. If Michael is already indicating a shortage of parts, I'm peeved. For the almost $2k I paid this isn't the same as buying an SB3. That's not to say that if my SB3 quit today and they couldn't fix it, that I wouldn't be a bit miffed. In the past three years I have purchased 5 SB's new. If their idea of planned obsolesence is so short that I'll need to be replacing all of these units within 2-3 years of purchasing them, well count me out as a future customer. With this type of attitude we might have to replace every single electronic device in our homes every three years. Toasters, refrigerators, phones (oh wait we already do) radio alarm clocks, etc... Don't know why this has gotten me so riled up, but it has. Howard P.S. And darn it to heck (trying not to get censored) my 1st Generation 20GB iPod still works. -- Howard Passman Can I go home now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71997 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
