No New Hardware Again?
When was the last time a significant piece of new hardware was announced? I can live w/o a headless mac, tablet, or touchscreen device. But how 'bout an updated Mini? New iMac form factor? The new Mac Pros are nice, but out of most consumer budgets. Looking forward to Leopard, but it's been a long wait and it's still not here. I might get an iPhone, but I'm only marginally interested. But I REALLY WANT a new iMac for the office and a new Mini for my new home theater system and it seems like I've been waiting forever. I know, I know, buy what you need when you need it. But both the iMac and Mini are due for refreshes and have been for some time so I don't want to get burned. I'd love a HT Mini, specifically designed for a home theater, with a blu-ray drive, HDMI output, and a very large hard drive. I'd pay a premium for that, as would a lot of people. But a refreshed base Mini, with no blu-ray, would be acceptable as well. And we've been living with the latest iMac form for a long time. Botton line, I'm getting tired of waiting for updates to the core consumer line of macs.
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... a new Mini for my new home theater system ... I'd love a HT Mini, specifically designed for a home theater, with a blu-ray drive, HDMI output, and a very large hard drive. I'd pay a premium for that, as would a lot of people.
That's what I'd personally like. HiDef Mini = include current I/O + HDMI/bigger HD/FW800 (ext.HD support). BlueRay could be an (expensive) BTO option.
Maybe this is what the AppleTV will eventually be? Who knows... just don't kill the Mini just yet.
Partnering with Dell, availablility of OSX on Dell Boxes
geez, just kidding
i hate iPhone, it took Mac business away
hope only excuse Apple waiting for Penryn CPUs to do the Headless Mac, iMac with Desktop CPU, MacBook mini and so on ...
next surprise will be
Partnering with Dell, availablility of OSX on Dell Boxes
It's going to basically take that for leopards innovations to not be wasted...well, more likely HP.
Steve, does not want to announce updated hardware at a Stevenotes, if he wanted to he would have waited a week to release the MacBook Pro.
Yeah but the iMacs are long overdue. They should have been released before the Macbook pro update and before the Keynote. This way people would be like, 'that Keynote sucked but at least they relased new imacs'. At the moment it's just 'that keynote sucked'.
Join the club.
This club's getting pretty big, I think we're going to have to split off into sub-clubs. Everybody who wants plastic cubes over to the left and everybody who wants metal cubes over to the right. We'll take it from there and once we reach 12 million members in about a week, we'll split it down further. Then we take out the iMac lovers, I think there's only 4 of 'em so we should be able to overpower them.
I vote to cut the fingers off all the multitouch people.