Wow after a post like this I am kinda surprised that you will still even visit a apple site.
I guess it's because I'm still using a 2008 Mac when they were still trying to make the best computers out there (although even then they were light on the graphics capabilities). But it seems the current CEO is even more obsessed with "thin" than Jobs. There is literally NO POINT to making the iMac that thin. It is completely unnecessary and serves no functional point what-so-ever. It creates space issues and cooling issues that then force them to hamper the machine by using low powered mobile parts. But what do you gain beyond some aesthetic obsession with THIN? NOTHING.
It's ironic that Apple wants to go to Retina displays since by making everything so thin, they have to limit the GPU capabilities and that then creates performance issues with that much resolution. But I gather they believe that no one uses their Apple products to do anything beyond e-mails, twitter, facebook and the occasional iTunes movie so they don't 'need' anything better.
It's a real shame because OSX was the best OS on the planet (save its support for modern graphics tech, drivers and lack of OpenGL updates) a few years ago and now it's very much a consumer phone company that also happens to make computers, kind of like when Radio Shack used to make Tandy computers. They eventually dumped their computer line, but kept selling consumer junk electronics and still do. Apple is shining bright with their iOS lines right now, but you can't ride an old horse forever and sooner or later the total lack of innovation (I have yet to see any since Jobs died, at least, just extending the 'thin' thing) combined with their former core computer tech dying on the vine in favor of constant iPhone updates will eventually lead to their fall.
It'll take several years, of course. No one believed Microsoft would ever lose the top spot, but look at them now. They're scrambling to change Windows wholesale (I'm not even sure going that far is a good idea, but at least they're daring to be different now) and its that fear of being completely obsolete that is driving it. Sadly, I think they're going a bit too far in the Apple iPad imitation field for their interface ("Options" seems to be a bad word these days; making dumbed down interfaces for the tech ignorant seems to be all the rage, leaving power users little choice but Linux to turn to if they want a traditional computer interface, but sadly Linux has no commercial software and let's face it, The Gimp will never be Photoshop.
I still plan on getting a Mac Mini because it's meant to be a server replacement for an aging PowerMac and drive my whole house audio/video system based on AppleTVs, but it's clear I'll need to build either a Hackintosh or get a separate PC or even a console if I want to play modern games because Intel 4000 isn't going to cut it. It'd be fast enough to play yesterday's games, except that Apple killed most of yesterday's games by making certain choices in OSX that lead them to no longer work in Lion and Mountain Lion. I suppose yesterday's games would work OK in Windows 7 installed on a Mac Mini, but that kind of defeats the point of buying a Mac once again. At least the virtualization software has gotten better to the point you can play some games without rebooting into pure Windows.
