Apple’s desktop lineup currently includes

• The wimpy $500 Mac Mini
• The “all-in-one” iMac
• The $2500 Mac Pro

So you have you’re choice of a cheap, and tiny, computer that won’t meet the needs of most power users (let’s see you edit video on a Mini); an “all-in-one” computer with enough for most power users, but little choice in the monitor area since everything is built-in to the LCD; and the expensive “ultimate computer” with 8 processing cores.

There needs to be a midrange model that allows for the use of your own monitor, like the ill-fated G4 Cube. It’s stats should be something like these:

• 2.4GHZ+ Core 2 Duo
• 2GB of RAM
• 250GB-500GB of Hard Drive space
• 8x Dual-Layer SuperDrive
• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory

It’s pricing should be comparable to the iMacs, seeing as the specs would be similar (though the cost of the LCD is cut-out).

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pm by Matt and is filed under Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.