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Yeah, as much as I love the aesthetics, I'm predicting poor sales unless the price is comparable to other desktops. It's precisely the reason I avoided the Cube

• Shivetya 13y ago
  Comparable to whose desktops? The server edition of the Mac Mini is a thousand dollars and its absolutely nothing special in hardware. I haven't seen this much disappointment amongst people who actually use the hardware when it comes to an Apple product ever. Well, we have the cheer leaders for the new hardware but its pretty obvious they don't use the current hardware. You get these types in any conversation. No internal expansion, no built in CD/DVD drives, limited memory, no apparent means of upgrading the video, and if one of the components breaks its off to the store. Yet if predictions are right this will be even more expensive than current solutions. Worse, Thunderbolt enclosures are not cheap, if can even find them. Unless those price predictions are way off base I and a few others I know have even started serious talk of going hackintosh. Apple had every opportunity to produce a slimmer tower that still gave options for expansion. Instead its a replay of the "Cube" days. Its not even good looking, the Cube at least could pass as a conversation piece
  • tracker1 13y ago
    I think it's pretty good looking myself... just that it would be better with desktop class parts, and sold as a mid-range option (between the mini and pro). As it stands, as a new pro, I think it's a failure. I'm with you on the hackintosh route.