iPhoto imports photos from 99% of all digital cameras via USB. Who needs SD card?
DDDDDDDDDDDD
hardcore photographers. and i very much doubt they'd be using a mac mini
still, its handy to have
Apple will - by raising the Imac prices to make the mini the cheap option again.
Yes - I'd love to wait for my 16 GB and 32 GB class 10 SD cards to download over USB.
FAIL.
That sentence doesn't even make sense. If the UK Pound had dropped double its value it would now be -£1 to $2
25-30% drop against most currencies since 2007, but with the British economy growing again and the BoE no longer diluting the currency via quantitative easing the Pound is more likely to rise against Euro and Dollar than to fall. I have a feeling here that Apple are treating the Pound as symbiotic to the Euro in the same way the Danish Kroner is, when this simply isn't the case.
If Apple reflect this pricing structure across the Mac range as they update models they'll have to start closing UK Apple Stores. Brits have woken up to being ripped off over the years. We no longer put up with it.
A computer is never inexpensive
The kind of Mac you're talking about has one big problem which in the end makes it the most expensive Mac: you can't really sell it. People already have something like this so you need to offer them something differently to make it more appealing. People already have this big computer which they can expand. Now they can get the same one but with OS X. The only selling point would be OS X in this case. People find computers hideous, especially women (there is something called the WAF). If you offer something really small which looks great and is easy to hide this will look very appealing to a lot of people. It now has OS X and the smaller form factor as selling points which make it a lot easier to sell even if the price is higher (there is a limit on that!). If you can make something small enough to look appealing and add expandability you might be able to get away with a steeper price tag.Unfortunately it seems that we're indeed getting a laptop without the display and input devices. So yeah, the price increase from 599 to 799 sucks, it's a 200 euro Apple taxFor a while it looked like Apple wasn't going to be all about the "Apple Tax", but with price/performance here, the pendulum is swinging in that direction again.
But now, it is essentially $700 for a laptop with no keyboard, mouse, screen or battery.
Still seems difficult to get the drive out and back in, it's too cramped.
Doesn't look incredibly difficult to get to the hard drive.
It's a nice upgrade for the 599 model but the problem is that they bumped the price to 799. The update is way too small to justify the 200 euro price increase. That's the only problem with the new mini and it's quite a big one.
You simply can't shave 200 euro from your energy bill with this new mini, that's just completely impossible if you still want to use the device. You need to do quite a lot of power saving at home if you want to shave off 200 euro. The price difference is not something that is doable in 3 years (which is the average life-cycle for a computer). You might be able to get your bill 10 to 20 euro's cheaper by using a Mac mini per year but that's about it.
Doesn't look incredibly difficult to get to the hard drive.
