That is entirely possible. I've used iphoto. I've seen others use it on the Air (I don't own an Air). I haven't experienced your issues. I will say that these machines should be fully capable of using something so basic out of the box. Apple makes a lot of odd decisions.
With things such as external gpus enclosures, I'd find it surprising if they go beyond a niche product considering improvements to integrated graphics and memory speeds. I mean real improvements, not marketing kool-aid. There are still people suggesting that the Intel HD4000 is a 2.5x improvement, yet that has little to do with real performance.
I don't know. It is a possibility that they don't go past being a niche product but from what I see nearly everywhere is that people like Thunderbolt for 3 reasons: dockingstation for MacBooks, external gpu and faster external disks. I think it has a good chance.
You are definitely the king of filling words into others mouths. Nowhere did I even mention "the World" did I? You are assuming and reading into my post to bolster your banal points.
Yes you did. You definitely need to read your post better, especially how it comes across and what it says between the lines. I'll give an example:
Out of all MY users NO ONE has bought a Mac Mini save but for 1 that runs a TV entertainment system. We don't stop them per se. But maybe we just like overspending.
I buy and recommend hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gear annually and have been employed for many many years doing this successfully for companies I know you'd be familiar with.
Now let us analyse that little bit of text and look at from what perspective it is written. Yes, it is entirely written from your own view as can be seen by the use of words like "my" and "I". Nowhere in this text does it reflect any other person but you.
If I were to talk like that than my conclusion would be the same as yours. The only person I know who has bought a Mac mini would be me. There is nobody else I know who has a Mac mini. There are many with things like a MacBook Pro, Air and an iMac though. However, when I look at others than I see something entirely different. Thus, my situation does not depict everybody's situations as it seems to differ. You do not seem to understand this very essential part as you keep on talking about your situation and thinking that this depicts the situation of everybody in the world. It definitely does not. There even are sales figures to proof that.
It is simple linguistics
On a side note how are glossy displays bad for ones health when the toxic coating of Matte displays have been found to cause cancer in users and manufacturers? Just wondering.
Because your eyesight has to concentrate on a lot of things and has to distinguish them. This leads to things like sore eyes, dry eyes, headaches, dizzyness, etc.
The cancer part is false. There has been no such proof. The only proof is that there might be some chance of raised level of running the risk of catching cancer. Those percentages are also very low. Think about 1 to 3% increase in risk. If you actually know your stuff you'd know that there are many other parts in a display that can also cause an increased risk.
Btw, glossy displays are coated exactly like matte displays are so the same thing applies here.
They end up with corporate PC Dell displays and blue cast monitor profiles because if all they need is a mini there isn't any way we're buying them a profiling solution to stop their display from looking like ass using the default profiles. Add in the rest of the costs and you might as well have bought the lower end iMac.
When I had that happen it was the display that was broken. It had nothing to do with the OS or the colour profile it was using (which you can calibrate by hand and distribute to all clients). In most cases the colour profiling is useless anyway due to the use of TN panels (because those are cheap and easy to get). Colour profiling does nothing with those panels.
The rest of the costs are not always there. In some cases people already have things like a keyboard, mouse and monitor. In other cases people get the choice in display, keyboard and mouse unlike with the iMac and Mac Pro. The latter only has choice in display; you get the keyboard and mouse whether you want/need them or not and thus paying for stuff you don't want/need. Don't forget that some organisations have contracts regarding things like peripherals and displays and stock these so there is no need to order these with new computers.
This obviously doesn't mean that a Mac mini is always the cheapest option. It can be and so can the Mac Pro and the iMac. It all depends on your own requirements, needs and whatever you already have (or the user if we are talking about an organisation). Like someone already stated here: we need choice because everybody does it a little bit different. Even within 1 organisation. We as sysadmins need to give the users what they need, not what we want them to use!
