I'm moving this from another thread....probably for the best.
Ok, now I think you're just just being bitter that you didn't get exactly what you want because most of those arguments make little sense to me.
You said you had a 21" monitor, which would run the same resolution as a 20", you wouldn't notice the difference in size at all. All of the video cards in every model of the iMac will be around 100+ times faster than the Mac Mini for games. No, I'm seriously not kidding, even the base model iMac will be insanely faster for games. The mini's integrated solution is for 2D and bare bones 3D as the GPU is often used in video scaling, that's all it's really designed for. A proper video card will run rings around it, even a 5 year old mid-range dedicated video card will beat the current mini by a huge margin in any game.
I'm surprised you even try to run a 21" display on a Mac Mini let alone play 3D games on it. Expose would be sluggish on it at it's native resolution which would annoy me to no end.
Well, I didn't deny being bitter. Back in the old days there were options. Maybe too many options, but still there they were. The original Mac Mini I purchased was the 1.4GHz G4 with the ATI video card. Back then, it was a good machine. Since then, I've wanted to upgrade, but did not want to get the poor Intel chip. At the time, I had a PC for playing WoW on, though I did use the Mini from time to time and it was okay. As the years started piling up, I figured it was time for an upgrade, but the upgrade last August wasn't that good. I needed something better, so I kept waiting. When I moved to Japan, I had to leave my PC behind, so now I only have my Mac Mini. Don't get me wrong, it's a good little machine and I've gotten more than my money's worth. However, as time goes on it's about time to trade up.
I'm left with a couple of choices. When Apple announced the new iMacs last year, I was excited, but the glossy screen just turned me off. Where my computer is located, the glare would be unbearable. Therefore, I understand that computer is not for me. I don't complain about it like some people, though. This leads me to trying to find another solution. I was going to just get a mini PC, but then there were rumors of a new Mac Mini coming out (this was in March or April). That's how I was lead to this site. I've been checking the news everyday since then. In this time, Apple has updated all of their products...except the Mini. All I want to know is if they're going to drop it or not. If they are, then I'll get a PC. It's pretty simple for me, but that doesn't mean I don't like their products, or want to keep using their products. Everyone in my house uses a Mac. Two of us have Minis and they work great. It's all I need in a computer, but my machine is a little long in the tooth and it's age is showing. As much as I want a new Mac, I don't want to spend money on something I'm not completely satisfied with.
Also, my wife uses a 20" monitor and even she notices my monitor is bigger. Why buy a smaller monitor that I can't connect to something else later? <shrug> I don't understand why anyone would want to have all of their parts connected in the first place, but that's my opinion. Either way, I'm not going to drop to a smaller monitor, that's out of the question. Same resolution or not.
Everyone uses their computers for different things and some people are okay with certain configurations. Using a Mini to play World of Warcraft isn't bad and OS X looks great and runs well even on my old hardware. It would be great to be able to speed a few things up and have a larger harddrive, but those things will definitely be upgraded with my next computer. As long as the next Mini doesn't use the current video card, then I'll be happy.
The other thing to this is that I worried that if I buy a new computer now, the next day Apple is going to upgrade the Mini. All I want to know is if they're going to drop it or move it in a different direction so I can choose a new computer. I don't think that's too much to ask for.
