Ehh, that would be interesting... I kind of like how it is now though... I just wish it was cheaper
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Hahaha.... my man, your blinders are extra large today. What about the fiasco with Mobile Me? What about Ping? You really are the most biased fanboy on this site, aren't you? I wonder why you feel the need to defend Apple so much....
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Well said... there are many of us who depend on high-end machines for development and work. And it's unfortunate that LTD is so myopic that he can't imagine or think beyond his typical drivel defending his position that Apple is perfect.
Sadly, the mid-performance upgradable tower used to be an Apple staple--there was always one in the G4 tower lineup (usually a slower single processor vs faster duals in the top-end), and it reappeared in the G5 towers (the $1500 single 1.8GHz G5 from late 2004).
Unfortunately, Apple's current priorities have lead me to think I won't be buying another Apple desktop anytime soon...and I'm strongly considering swapping my Macbook Air for a ThinkPad over the summer. Don't get me wrong, I love running Snow Leopard on it, but I don't like the direction Lion etc. is going. That I can get something that is user-upgradeable/replaceable is an added perk. OSX is nice, but Win7 is perfectly competent for the average user, and a RHEL-derivative does everything *NIX related that I need out of OSX.
LOL, this thread has gone seriously off track. But this made my laugh a lot... you've invented the laptop!!!
What you seem to be overlooking is that those of us who do "real work" of the kind developers, designers, et al, do are now a vanishingly small percentage of the user base. Beige Windows boxes owned by the employer and running Office will remain in people's workplaces for the foreseeable future but people like me, a design/graphics professional working on my own machine are barely a rounding error in the numbers of people owning their own computers.
Yes, we pretty much kept Apple alive during the mid-to-late 90s, but we're largely irrelevant now. The vast majority of people who own their own computer want it for e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Add in light photo editing, a little WP and maybe some hobbyist video editing or music creation and you've met the needs of the vast majority, and you can meet those needs with a tablet.
Cheers
Jim
It's a shame, there are still quite a bit of professionals in film editing and photography that used PowerMac's and 30" ACD CCFL LCD's. Annie Leibovitz was a huge Apple user, my friend Rich was a producer for her with Vanity Fair and Vogue. At one point she had four G5's and 30" displays running. Now, she's running Windows. Many film editors jumped ship to Avid Media Composer and some even Adobe Premiere Pro as they have made great strides in keeping up with the professional industry in just software, and they're making bank. It's a shame, sure the numbers may be dwindling, but working in communications I have clients with $100k+ set aside for hardware/software license upgrades. They used Apple products for their hard hitting work, but based on Apple's focus on the Mom and Pop and fashionista consumer market most aren't holding out hope and jumping to Windows or even Unix. That means learning app's as Final Cut Pro X (even with current updates, didn't support server, import from version 7, etc) wasn't and still isn't up to par. Aperture is still decent, but Apple could incorporate a full editing suite into it to compete with Adobe Photoshop instead of making it a conduit for organizing/importing RAW images with limited editing.
My friend works in the Proapps dept as a design consultant for Final Cut Pro X. At the time of development her NDA kept them from speaking about it, but they later hinted that Proapps is poorly managed, went from 5-6 staff to roughly 50 over the years, while iOS is about half of Apple's engineering and design staff. Proapps have to beg for funding, and engineers barely listened to input form the designers, who were mainly professionals from the film industry hired as consultants.
If this doesn't tell you where Apple has been heading...
