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Will Apple fill their infamous gaping lineup hole?
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Remember the last teleconference? Jobs said clearly "We choose not to serve some customers".
What that means, very clearly to me, is that Apple will not enter markets where people shop by price. They will stick to selling speciality computers and ignore the mainstream.
What that means, very clearly to me, is that Apple will not enter markets where people shop by price. They will stick to selling speciality computers and ignore the mainstream.
What would you do with a mid range headless mac.
The software out there is ether professional suited to a workstation or consumer that the mini and imac handle well.
The only use for a mid range headless upgradable mac would be for games but i don't see any new Graphics cards showing face nor anything else a consumer would want to upgrade as there is no consumer internal hardware components so what would you do with the expansion.
The software out there is ether professional suited to a workstation or consumer that the mini and imac handle well.
The only use for a mid range headless upgradable mac would be for games but i don't see any new Graphics cards showing face nor anything else a consumer would want to upgrade as there is no consumer internal hardware components so what would you do with the expansion.
People would not be shopping by price. They would buy such a reasonable desktop for OSX and quality hardware.
I also don't like the optical bays of the Mac Pro. I just want a pair of 5.25" holes (maybe with a big door that does not prevent just putting in any random drive).
I also don't like the optical bays of the Mac Pro. I just want a pair of 5.25" holes (maybe with a big door that does not prevent just putting in any random drive).
i mean theres no reason to not have say a q6600 or other quad core chip desktop once the macpro goes i7
You could even have a pricey single processor i7 midrange, as the Mac Pro would still be expensive server-based overkill for most people.
How about a $1200-$1500 base price core i7 tower with a $2300 - $2500+ 2 cpu core i7 system as well.
The core i7 1 cpu tower can be as high $1800 - $2200+ with dual high end video cards.
So you can have good desktop with high video power at it's high end. and a tower with high cpu power 2 core i7 and high-low to mid range video as well.
Over lap will not be a issue as a 1 cpu tower with good high end video at about $1800 with about 6gb ram (non ecc) vs a 2 cpu system with mid range video and 6+ gb of ECC ram is in differnt areas.
a core i7 system at the old g4 - g5 tower prices of $1200 - $1500 will be a good fit.
Apple has no hole in their lineup. It's called the iMac.
If the new iMac comes in with the desktop CPU and RAM, the hole will be plugged.
Might not be expandable, but the performance gap will narrow between the iMacs and the tower.
if they move the guts inside around to look a bit more like the ease of replacing the HD like the unibodies. People will be slighty happier.
Edit: no orgasms over the iMac, but a little less sacrifice at the price.
It's the whole concept of the iMac which creates the hole. This is not fixed simply by replacing notebook by desktop parts.
That just goes to show you that Apple will never make everybody happy unless they have 100 different models. Then they will go back to how it was in the early to mid-90s.
People were happy with just PowerMacs in addition to iMacs. They were not overkill like the Mac Pro.
Computers get cheaper over time. Many people don't want to pay for 8 cores and FB-DIMMs that they don't need (getting a single CPU Mac Pro is not an option, as you're still paying all the dual processor overhead).
an Apple tower desktop could be just as neat. Why would it need anymore wires than your iMac aside from the monitor