Yes really but your way off base Watty.
How so?
I have never leased a car in my life. I buy great quality cars and keep them for 10+ years.
Great! Then your FM9 which you may end up purchasing will be a "great quality [modeler] that you can keep for 10+ years." End of story!
My last car had over 200k on it when I sold it. It still looked and drove almost like new. I do my research up front. I invest in quality, take care of my things. They usually end up lasting me a very long time.
Yet more insight to prove that you will enjoy your FM9 MKI for years to come!
I guess you are more of an impulse type person.
Possibly, but I'm not the one asking after a new version of a new product several days after the announcement of its release.
$1,599.99 is a substantial investment so this is me simply doing some diligence.
Correct! Your due diligence is figuring out whether the FM9 MKI will work for you, just as deciding whether the 2021 Accord will work for you, knowing that the 2022 will be coming out in a year, the 2023 in two, the 2024 in three, and so on.
I appreciate the chance to hear the thoughts of others. Does it really make a difference if I ask now, or 3 months from now? I understand that I am slightly ahead of the question curve but I am curious.
It matters because the first units to ship have potentially not even arrived at their owner's doors yet. Let's take a different example. Tesla released the Cyber Truck, but it's not out quite yet. Would you be asking after a MKII version of that if you were in the market for the MKI?
I have only been following Fractal product development since around 2019- around the time the FM3 was released.
So you have very little history with the brand then?
Still, I shared my best guess of what the improvements might look like and the timeline for when it might come out.
There are product wishlist threads that exist for a reason. If everyone posted a separate thread for their every desire, the forum would become cluttered pretty quickly. And again, circling back to the car example, you might have any number of proposed improvements for the next model year, but unless you're active on their forums posting about them, I'm not sure this argument holds a lot of water.
I don't think I am too far off.
On the potential MKII features? On the release timeline?
I fully realize that I might not get the nod until "sometime" in 2022 and that's perfectly fine.
Based on their last product refresh, I don't know that there was any "nod." New things are released when they are released.
I know others in here are a lot more familiar- with experiences going back to the Axe-Fx Standard, Ultra, AX8, etc. I didn't think anyone would mind a question.
If the product had been out for 6-12 months, your question might be valid, but the thing hasn't even had an unboxing video uploaded to YouTube yet.
Many who are on the list are probably wondering the exact same thing. Obviously no one can know for sure but I would not mind hearing anyone's best guesses.
I think 99.999% of people on the newly minted list (read: those exclusive of yourself) are probably wondering when they are going to have their name called to purchase. I can almost guarantee no one is wondering whether their money will be poorly spent with the advent of a new version shortly after purchasing. Now, if the waitlist grows to over a year, then perhaps the people that haven't purchased will begin to wonder, but last time a refresh happened and there was a waitlist in place, it's my understanding people were ported over to the list for the new version, thus severely minimizing that concern.