aknabi

Given the cost I'll need to buy another sleeve to protect this sleeve that protects my MBP... market opportunity for the "meta-sleeve". But seriously yes it's way expensive, but Apple is a premium brand... Just wait for the Hermes edition... Hermes for similar products charges between 1300-2000... now that's stupid insane

Well of course... if you're looking at a negotiation between a massive, well run corporation that probably has a army of wicked sharp negotiators vs. a quasi-second world level state with a bunch of bozo C-class (maybe a B player at the top) bureaucrats who do you think will absolutely clean up in the deal... with citizens left holding the bag in the long term

Soli said:

But certain posters here keep telling me Apple has given up on the Mac. 

Yeah, because we go by what Apple does and releases rather than PR, ads and fanboy blindness

entropys said:

The core problem is that a corporation built, saved and rebuilt by a visionary is now run by a supply chain efficiency expert.

Bingo... though in a efficient product matrix (aka SJ's 2x2) you'd have something like:

BYOD -          Mac (Mini )    Mac Pro
AIO -              iMac              iMac Pro
Lap -              MacBook      MacBook Pro
Tablet -          iPad               iPad Pro
Phone -         iPhone           iPhone "Pro"

In each element of the matrix that has displays 2 options max. In the others you can scale CPU/RAM/Storage.

And if you say no one would buy a Mac Mini then you have to logically say that no one would buy an iMac... frankly plenty of people have a display, keyboard, mouse... I'm at the point of throwing displays away (1080... as I move to 4k). I don't want to be forced to buy an AIO when I've got 4k displays hanging around (and waiting for the 32 inch Philips 8K to come out this year). After that I want to upgrade the machine every cycle, but don't need to upgrade the display for ~4 year at least

macxpress said:

Oh boy...here we go! Continuous bitching about the Mac mini. I doubt most here are gonna buy one anyways. 

In it's current form no... plenty will with a well done Mini... but I know that comment is more about fanboy fealty than any cogent statement