Mac Mini w/ Cinema Display or iMac G5?

[mrgreen4242]

OLED manufacturers are having trouble producing a 20" display and you are telling me that the price of a 20" LCD will fall. ROTF.

These OLED Big Displays will cost and arm and a leg when its released, it will be a good 3-5 years before it pushes 20" LCD technology down fast. The only other thing that can drop the 20" LCD price is if the bigger LCD drop in price and even bigger LCD displays are released.

OLED is also not that great at present since the life cycle for it is not stable.

First off, I said that new technologies LIKE OLED. There are a few things out there that are going to push LCD costs down. OLED for one, is going to be a better, cheaper way to make small displays at the LEAST. This is going to move the development and manufacturing focus of LCDs to making bigger, cheaper displays. There some other manufacturing proccesses in the works to build flat displays at prices a fraction of LCD with better brightness and quality. They may be more than 2 years away, but the market will have to correct.

We are also talking about a time frame 2 years away. in the last year alone the price of an APPLE 20" LCD has dropped $300, about 25%. It's not unreasonable to expect that a 20" will be in the $600 range by then.

Too expensive to max it out at present. ...
Current iMac G5 GPU sucks.

Point is that you don't have to max it out NOW. You can put in an extra gig now (for half what it would cost to get it in the mini since it's "Apple Authorized service only") and get ANOTHER gig later, should you need it. The mini can't do that.

You can't just sya that something sucks. Sucks compared to WHAT? Compared to the fastest mini (1.42ghz G4) even the 1.6ghz G5 is a MONSTER. Compared to the PM's or maybe a fast PC, ya it might 'suck', but on a $/performace scale, it's pretty impressive. It's XBench score is as good as a fast dual G4 PM, and while the GPU is sucky, it's still better than the 9200/32mb in the mini.

Shrug, get what you want, but if you need a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, the iMac is a way better buy than the mini. If you are doing an in place upgrade, the mini is awesome. My wife has a Dell machine with a 15" LCD and a wireless keyb/mouse we added, and the mini is gonn abe her next machine, no doubt about it. For under $500 (government discount is REALLY good on these) we can just drop it ONTO her desk and get rid of the big noisy piece of crap under the desk.

Rob