There is a very interesting (to Apple desktop computer users and geeks) article on Ars Technica with some pretty educated conjecture about what Apple’s next desktop computer(s) may look like. The article is by Eric Bangeman, and I find myself mostly in agreement with his conjecture, albeit reluctantly.
While I think his prediction is spot on, it is bad for me personally. I’d very much like to see a split in the lines between the high-end video production market and the professional office automaton and sys-admin market. I know the big profits and market will be the huge video editing machines, but I need a machine I can upgrade and do maintenance on easily with reasonable performance. The Mac Mini and iMac lines are nice, but they don’t upgrade or handle maintenance easily (need more drive bays and easier access to the drives).
I want a mini-tower with 2 hard drive bays and 2 optical bays. I doubt Apple will make one, because they know we’d milk up to 10 years of life out of those machines, which impacts their long term sales of new computers. I love my low power, low noise, low heat Cube; but the lack of a second drive bay in that puppy is a pain, especially since the firewire ports are fried. How about a 2 drive bay low power Mac?
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