In article <1igwj73.d9pl11afa90iN%me4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
me4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Stuart) wrote:
> ZnU <znu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In article <r81i2493mg7ii0vqdtv8m1o2k08vko0vnp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > (Though it's also worth noting the Mac mini hasn't seen an update in
> > something like nine months -- it'll probably be much more competitive
> > after the next update. Though that will probably take the form of
better
> > specs at the same price points. Unless it has been so long since the
> > last update because Apple is up to something....)
>
> Maybe if the Mini had been a bigger seller, Apple would have put more
> effort into keeping it fresh. But everything I've seen points to the
> Mini has always been considerably outsold by the much more expensive
> iMac.
>
> You also have to wonder if this has been sending a message that people
> aren't particularly interested in cheap Macs, so no point making an even
> cheaper one.
I think this used to be true, and maybe still is, a bit, but as Apple
begins to get more attention from people outside the Mac's traditional
base (which has only recently shown signs of happening in a serious
way), it becomes less and less true.
--
"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War
coming
out any other way."
--George W. Bush in Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4,
2007
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