| From the interesting because it isn't interesting department: Apple released new Mac Pros (their tower computers) on Tuesday. They are nice and extremely powerful (8 cores across the board.) This used to be Apple's flagship product. Almost it's only product. But these days it just doesn't matter. They've become so powerful that they are just niche products. Unless you are doing insanely demanding graphics work (especially 3D graphics or video,) you just don't need one. The iMac and the portable line are way more than enough power for doing anything else, and they are priced much lower than the towers. I remember when I bought my PowerBook (5 years ago and it's still fine for my work - think about that when pricing Apple's vs. PC's) I wondered why I would ever buy a tower again. And indeed, that's the way it seems to be working out. I could maybe see buying an iMac - especially if I had an iPhone or if Apple comes out with something in the UMPC space - but the days of the consumer tower are over. Just sort of interesting. |
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