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[Maxer]

Not yet available: pocketable (or so) Mac. About 400 to 600 g. Ant form factor: tablet, slider or clamshell. The Mac in your pocket, purse or bag. Always.

This post has been edited by Maxer: 15 November 2010 - 09:21 AM

[novabothar]

I use a mini as a home media server and for photo editing, and use iOS devices for the rest of my computing needs. a nice cheap solution.

[borderk9]

novabothar, on 15 November 2010 - 10:53 AM, said:

I use a mini as a home media server and for photo editing, and use iOS devices for the rest of my computing needs. a nice cheap solution.

Can you share how you have the mini setup? I was thinking of doing the same thing when i move into my new house. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[MacXJ]

Which Mac is right for me? A desktop computer that lets me choose my own monitor, has room for an optical drive and two internal hard drives and is positioned between the mini and the Pro.
But Apple won't build the Mac that is right for me!

[Efrabassplayer]

I have a G5 as my main Computer for Recording Music using Logic Studio & Pro Tools and also a MacBook Pro as my Portable Studio. For any kind of editing a Mac Pro is perfect for the space to grow and a MacBook Pro for portable editing.
Love Everything Apple Build!

[realtorjoan]

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[ckasper]

The Xserve WAS the right mac for me.

[fotografx]

I have 5 Apple Macs, a Mac Pro, three older Mac Mini's and a new Mac Mini. I write for a photography magazine and do digital photography using three of the Macs I have, all with pro-graphics LCD displays. I get dozens of e-mails from readers with color management/ and dark print problems with MacBooks and iMacs, and a few using Apple Cinema Displays.

Apple Macs are the first choice among serious photographers who can afford them. But, no one tells them that the only ones that work for serious photography are Mac Mini's and Mac Pro's with pro-graphics non-Apple LCD displays.

Get real, Apple dominates in the imaging and publishing computer arena, but no one would know that from your publication.

[golfintosh]

A Power Mini Quad Core or headless iMac Quad Core is the right Mac for me - that doesn't exist. :-)

[MacXJ]

golfintosh, on 22 November 2010 - 03:37 PM, said:

A Power Mini Quad Core or headless iMac Quad Core is the right Mac for me - that doesn't exist. :-)

In the headless line there is a huge price gap. Mini at $699 Pro at $2499. And yet Apple somehow can't see this huge hole in its lineup. Where is the $1299-$1599 product? The laptop and iMac lines do not have that big of a price gap between models.

[Chucktr]

In this BRUTAL economy, buying new Macs is out of the question. Our small office is still running G5s and G4 PowerBooks on OS 10.4.11, mainly because of upgrade costs (OS, new versions of Adobe CS, Quark, etc.) so right now I'm looking at buying a used MacBook Pro G4 on eBay -- avg. cost $275). Things are so tight we've looked at PCs -- much less expensive even with virus protection costs. Macs are great, but they LOVE their $ margins. Like a lot of small companies, we're totally focused on surviving.

[Phrehdd]

Imagine the creation of a new Mac Mini with 512mb video (unshared) memory, handles 16 gigs of RAM, and a laptop type quad CPU with decent cache. This makes for a nice stand alone machine but even better if it was designed to snap on the back of Cinema display and together becomes the equivalent of an iMac. When a new model comes out, you can swap out the Mac Mini portion and keep the screen if desired. The older "Mac Mini" still remains a usable machine that can share the screen or used elsewhere.

Perhaps to add to the above, the back of the Cinema Display can house other devices (such as additional drives or dvd/blu ray read/writers etc.

Often I find my biggest frustration is that Apple can politely say it is green company with respect to materials yet insists you 'dump' entire machines for upgrades. Green to me is more than just materials its the utilization of the materials as well.

For now, I'll stick with my old Mac Pro 2.66 quad and 2009 model Mac Mini that both share one screen and both connect to a NAS. When Apple comes out with a beefier Mini or perhaps a "junior" Mac Pro I'll be again in the market for another Mac.

In the meanwhile, I have several friends that by my recommendation have gotten iMacs and are in love with them. They run OSX and the other OS in either virtual or bootcamp (for those apps that required that OS).

[Fuzzball2k4l]

After years on the Windows OS and attempts at Linux, I have finally found a smooth, stable platform for personal use. The mac mini is a steal at it's price, everything works well together and it is great. I plugged it in and zoom, I was off to user land, a land of attractive interface and simple, intuitive ways to do things.

My mini can drive my two hi def monitors, my stereo, with the right cabling and it does it all in a quiet, cool little box. The mac is replacing something with three fans, a sound card that was about 1/5 the price of the mac mini and a graphics card that needed it's own air conditioner.