iMac: why did they discontinue the 17-incher?

[CashGap]

I would never do this otherwise, but if Apple dropped a 30" iMac within the next year, I'd buy it.

That would be shweeeeet

I've been thinking the same thing... but it I'd use it more as a "media center" than a "real" computer.


"The G5 white iMacs were rectangular boxes -- no "dome" involved -- so, the maximum
component height at any position behind the screen was constant and totally independent
of screen size."

Yeah, I get that... with the engineering "challenge" so easily solved (1/4" deeper dome all over) and the economic challenge (would cost Apple the same as a 20 and sell for a lot less) so obvious, I find it hard to believe that the engineers threw down their micrometers in disgust, exclaiming "It can't be done! May the world forgive us!".