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davidinsf 
Actually, this happened before with an iMac transition (G4 to G5) and the first 2 generations of G5 iMacs were amoung the least reliable Macs that Apple has ever sold (over their life, we owned 24 of them, 23 of which went in for service at least once, 8 or 9 multiple times).
I understand that Apple sees itself as a consumer product company, but truthfully there are businesses that use their products and not having product to sell to them is not a good practice... We've been able to meet our needs by buying refurbished 27" iMacs, but even my business rep warned us that supply could run out at any time...
I hope this troubled transition actually results in a decent reliable product unlike the last time they messed up on a transition...
At this stage I would strongly suggest you have alternatives in place, not to go PC per se, but just other Macs with external screens. The days of reliable, exact model supply for businesses by Apple may be ending. Whether it's 20 Macs or 2000 Macs, Apple is still a good bet, but one will need a lot of flexibility in the model mix.
The iMac G5 was a big challenge because the G5 chip was horrendous and even fitting it into an iMac it was hot as hell. But remember how Steve literally turned the whole company around by going to Intel because he wanted to fix it once and for all, and he did. And they learned that with ARM as well, not to bet on just PowerPC, Intel, AMD or ARM. So much so as well that they decided to ~design their own CPUs~ with ARM because the tripe that PowerPC was giving them was just... shocking.
Steve is not a God or The Perfect Entrepreneur but for the kind of person that pursues passion to its very, very end to change the world, and no doubt make oodles of money, this is how you do it.
Look at his keynotes over the past 10 years. Almost every guest company, in 2012 now, they are toast in terms of real innovation and growth 2013-2018.
Edited by sr2012 - 11/23/12 at 10:59pm
