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How would you like a headless system from Apple?
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orangezorki said:
Option 1 is daft,
The mac os doesn't have a large gaming platform (which is the only realistic reason for this machine).
Yeh, mac pro users can use bootcamp, and game away with "teh awezome grafix" (tm) but at the end of the day, they're pro machines for enthusiasts that have the £ to lay down.
Apple aiming at making a machine for the semi-enthusiast/gamer would be a bad move, segmenting the pro market, and offering a solution that wouldn't make windows users switch, or impress the hardcore mac user.
In short, yeh, you'd get a plus point of better gaming performance, but for a serious photography workflow, or as a bigtime video editing solution, the box would just ***** out, so what's the point?
The imac at the moment plays most mainstream games fine, and if you keep it 12 months, ebay it, and get the new model, it'll play next years games fine as well. Making basically a mac pc would mean within 12 months, half he components in it wouldn't be covered under your warranty (because you'd have upgraded them to new components that make it a "little" faster) and eventually as new mainboards & socket standards come out (the real meat and potatos of your sytem), you'd have to upgrade anyway...
