CmdrTaco's "from the thats-a-lotta-disposable-screen dept." is spot on.
Who would spend the money on a 24? LCD attached to a quicker-to-age (and Apple, so quick-to-rot) hardware? An LCD in that configuration is in fact essentially disposable. Although with the switch to Intel it will be possible to drop a an upgraded CPU into the motherboard -- still, I'm not paying for a big chunk of LCD attached to hardware with a shorter half-life.
So, I'll check out the Mac Mini. What? Just Core Duo? No Core 2 Duo? Increase the form factor and put a real chip in it! And put real graphics in it too!
So, to get a decent Mac without a disposable LCD, I need to buy a Mac Pro, it seems. OK, but at $2399 (with student discount), that's not going to happen.
What happened to the equivalent of the single-CPU G5 that used to run about $1500 or so? But I don't actually want a box that big and that metallic.
What I want is a signficantly souped-up Mac Mini to attach to a standalone 23? Cinema display. That souped-up Mac Mini would look an awful lot like the Apple G4 Cube. So, let's imagine a Core 2 Duo in a slightly larger Mac Mini form-factor with some real graphics.
Bring it back Apple. Something like it, anyway. Bitte bitte, bitter apple. Right now you're not selling anything I will buy.
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CmdrTaco's "from the thats-a-lotta-disposable-screen dept." is spot on.
Who would spend the money on a 24? LCD attached to a quicker-to-age (and Apple, so quick-to-rot) hardware? An LCD in that configuration is in fact essentially disposable. Although with the switch to Intel it will be possible to drop a an upgraded CPU into the motherboard -- still, I'm not paying for a big chunk of LCD attached to hardware with a shorter half-life.
So, I'll check out the Mac Mini. What? Just Core Duo? No Core 2 Duo? Increase the form factor and put a real chip in it! And put real graphics in it too!
So, to get a decent Mac without a disposable LCD, I need to buy a Mac Pro, it seems. OK, but at $2399 (with student discount), that's not going to happen.
What happened to the equivalent of the single-CPU G5 that used to run about $1500 or so? But I don't actually want a box that big and that metallic.
What I want is a signficantly souped-up Mac Mini to attach to a standalone 23? Cinema display. That souped-up Mac Mini would look an awful lot like the Apple G4 Cube. So, let's imagine a Core 2 Duo in a slightly larger Mac Mini form-factor with some real graphics.
Bring it back Apple. Something like it, anyway. Bitte bitte, bitter apple. Right now you're not selling anything I will buy.