Posts by RBR

Split? Between what? Those who think it sucks and those who want to move to something else?

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  It depends on how the market goes I guess. Without a Mini, there would be no OS X Server. Without the iMac, the prices would probably go up on the 27" Cinema displays. It could happen...

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin  The Mini doesn't sell all that well on it's own though and it can't use the CPUs in the iMac as they draw too much power. They tend to use the same chips as the MBPs now. Intel...

Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777    That's not the reason the Mini uses mobile components. Apple went through a tough time in the 90's, and needed economies of scale to hold on to consumer and education...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  This is why I find Apples marketing so frustrating, the server model isn't drastically different from the base model, most likely varying only in the processor implemented. It is a...

MSI are reportedly developing an TB external chassis with graphics card of their own design and manufacture. I can't find the reference to it just now, but there were some videos posted which were encouraging. The current TB ("TB I")...

Perhaps Intel are feeling a bit insecure about the ability of various vendors to bring TB products to market which do not cause problems such as those encountered in a variety of USB 3 devices.   The bottom line is still the...

Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69  <snip> Any case redesign would likely do away with internal hard drives all together or at least get rid of the array support. Supporting disk array internally is a step in...

Marvin,   This will wrap up the status of things.   The net install finally finished and I shut things down when it restarted and booted to the factory drive to make a disk image of the net install. I thought I could...

Marvin,   Thanks for the link to the MacWorld article. I had only found one reference to "breaking" the Fusion Drive via a convoluted process in Terminal that I was not entirely comfortable with, especially as it was a site of...