Is it not likely that the 27" becomes the small display in the lineup- and a new 32" version comes out at some point in the near future?
Nah. They've given up on displays. It's been over 6 years since they designed a display, from the ground up, without any iMac dependencies. The only reason they offer this single 27" model is that they're already having those panels made for the iMac, as evidenced by the fact that they're dropping the 24" display now that the iMac 24" is no longer around.
Those iMac panels can't really be professional grade, or else they wouldn't slap them on their consumer models. The display on my iMac 24" (Dec '07) is stripey, unevenly lit and yellowish, it's the old TFT panel though but still, not a pro display.
Better get used to those Dell/HP/NEC/LG/Eizo logos in your field of vision unless you have any Apple stickers lying around...
The Telia iSurf is not really that expensive. 149 SEK per month, isn't it? That is equivalent to 20 USD.
I haven't looked at those plans in detail for a couple of years now, but when they were introduced (with the launch of the 3G in Sweden, summer '08) they were crazy expensive compared to Telia's normal plans. I kept my old plan and bought the 3G unlocked.
So you still buy Apple products despite this stench? That reminds me of something that happened during an epic bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973.
I commenced the switch to Mac a year ago after many years (≈17) on PC. I use a laptop and a workstation for my work, that's my rig of choice. So I started with replacing the laptop with a MBP 17" and the plan was to replace the desktop with a Mac Pro the next time they were updated. In the meantime the household iMac was used as a desktop substitute, I figured it'd do for a few months. Little did I know that it would take over 16 months for that to happen and that the update would be a very modest speed bump to a Nehalem processor that's just as old as the previous one. Meanwhile I had gotten tangled up in costly investments like buying CS5 Master Collection for Mac, an Apogee audio interface that has no Windows driver, Office for Mac and so on, and I recently ordered Logic. Going back to PC at this point would be a helluvalot more expensive than completing the transition by getting a Mac Pro.
So I wouldn't call it Stockholm Syndrome, it's more like getting on a bus in good faith only to discover that the bus driver (Steve) is completely bonkers and speeding toward some unknown destination, could be Narnia, Mars or a brick wall, but I'm stuck on the bus since jumping off at full speed would result in serious injury.
