. A 27" iMac is too big for me and the Mac Pro is not a good value now, and Apple just doesn't have any Mac smaller/cheaper than the 13" MacBook.
I'm guessing you missed the press release, but it sounds like what you're looking for is the Mac Mini.
Apple can ignore the market all they want, but it's just money lost for them. If there had been an Apple netbook on the market, even for a couple hundred more, I probably would have bought that.
Apple does make a very small laptop, its called the MacBook Air. What Apple doesn't make is a cheap underpowered, way out of date, minimal resource laptop.
But it is not "money lost for them". You're not accounting for the costs of this support. IF the costs exceed the revenue, and they likely will for competing in the razor thin margins area, they might well lose money.
In high school and college, during the 90's, I had to deal with the ignorance and bashing on Macs by the aforementioned PC trolls. The PC side of bashing is far worse than what you'll experience on the Mac side...simply because you are outnumbered by PC's.
You still are. The difference is that they now want OS X on their PCs.
The idea that mac users are elitists and arrogant is just another one of the ignorant, dishonest, claims of the PC fanboys.
Mac users like their computers, some of them even love them. But they are much less cult-like than PC users.
Generally because Mac users are better informed, and thus more aware of the realities than PC users for whom their brand of PC is like a football game or church and PC is their religion.
They don't make computers that use the Atom processer...so they are in their right not to support that processor.
The funny thing is, they probably DO support the processor because that's how generous Apple is. But during the QA cycle of an update, a bug showed up that caused problems, and now the whiny hackintosh compunity-- which apparently doesn't really actually like Apple-- is complaining that they've "Removed" support. For software that is in the QA process, and hasn't been released yet.
So thanks to hackintoshing, Apple got $320 from me, and will be recieving more when i can afford a macbook. Thats $320 that apple would have never seen if it werent for osx86.
That's great, and that's probably why Apple does put minimal support into compatibility.
But that doesn't mean they should going forward. You're not Apple's target market, at least not yet. I'm not either, actually.
They have to target their market and if we like their products, great, but we don't get to insist they target products to us.
They can't, they have to focus.
Focus is what makes them great.
I hate to tell you ... Its the processor, chip set, memory, video card, etc, and Windows and Mac machines have almost identical components.
I hate to tell you but you're leaving out the OS, and "almost" is not the same, and probably not appropriate going forward as Apple has its own processor design company. OS X runs on a lot of places that are not the desktop computer you're talking about.
You really don't understand software on a level to make the claim you do-- and if you did you'd realize that just because these components are similar, does not man they are the same, and does not mean that the software will run on both groups-- especially when its written with the capabilities and configuration of one group in mind and not the other.
I could run off every Apple product recall and defect list as well.
You could, but I still doubt that if you did it would persuade you.
Otherwise Apple orders components, boards, and assembly just like every other OEM on the market. Consumer satisfaction has nothing to do with the processor in your Mac being identical its siblings elsewhere.
Yeah, this is false. You don't know what you're talking about. Its the land of PCs-- your land-- where computer makers just throw things in a box and they have motherboard standards so any maker can use any source of commodity motherboards.
That is not how it is with Macs.
You want the Mac experience, great, start understanding where it comes from.
It comes from Apple making the whole thing, and being able to control quality from end to end.
Most of them buy legitimate copies of OS X and run them on hardware selections beyond Apple's meager and outdated offerings.You can put the pom-poms down now. It's just kind of sad at this point.
You're the one with pompoms and you are giving arguments on the level of a cheerleader's cheers as well.
I really want(ed) a fanless Mac netbook once the Pine Trail chips were released. I value a very small, high resolution laptop, and Apple just doesn't build one and doesn't seem to want to.
Its called the MacBook Air. No fan, amazingly thin.
IF you want a low end, extremely compact (but not thin) machine, then Apple doesn't compete in this space yet.
Apple chooses to compete only where it can offer a superior product. This is a good thing.
This is probably about Apple (Intel) not wanting Atom-based Hackintosh netbooks (with Atom processors) cannibalizing product sales of the MacBook Air (with ULV Cores). It could also be about Apple wanting to protect the small screen space to some future iPhone OS based-similar-sized tablet.
Why make up a conspiracy theory when this being a bug in beta software makes more sense.
Apple doesn't need to "protect" the Air. People who buy netbooks would never buy the air-- they don't care about a thin computer, they want one that is tiny.
They are simply imposing their wishes to extract as much value out of the market as possible. Of course, what this means is that Apple will inadvertently provide a big boost to some other welcoming OS - Like Windows 7 (works great on a netbook) or maybe even Chrome OS. I'm sure Google would love to pick up Apple's discarded chaff.
Ha Ha! You say that like its a bad thing. Yeah, I do like it better when the cheapskates who can't tell the difference between price and value aren't on the mac platform. This has resulted in Apple capturing %90 of the industry profits and growing like crazy while the "Welcoming" pc makers duke it out at the low end with razor thin margins and lose money.
So, obviously we are not going to see 10.6.2 anytime soon blah, come on now really if you guys are hackers (not being a jerk) why can't you guys find a way to make 10.6.2 work?
You'd think. But they aren't, they're riding on the coattails of engineers who did the real hacking.
Yes - I think that's true of must Hackintoshers. One of my biggest reasons is portability - Apple products are all too big to take on an airplane and use in a typical coach seat.
MacBook Air.
Hell, I've done it with my MacBook Pro.
