| scottie said: Alby Da Wolf, the Mac Mini hasn't been udated in a long time, should be due for an upgrade soon. Everyone, there were rumours that Blu Ray drives would be added as options for the Macbook/Pro line yesterday. They weren't and thus it is a blow to Blu Ray |
Yes. But I remember when the first PowerPC powered Mac Mini was released it was far more revolutionary and competitive: its price wasn't higher than a medium quality x86 mini PC and it had the fastest passive cooled GPU available then, a Radeon 9200. The current model is much more expensive and it has crappy intel graphics in every model and sub par optical drive in the entry level model. It looks like Apple feared it could have too much success and crippled it... I hope current success make their fears vanish and they release a Mac Mini "III" competitive like the first one.
About the blow to BD: I was just observing that Apple is very prudent on some features and while I disagree on "jurassic combo" choice, I can understand they don't adopt BD now, it's still too expensive, considering the fast obsolescence and thinner profit margins on all PC's, also Macs, compared to other electronics, and leaving Sony, that needs it to have success much more, to bear the financial weight of the early phases of its adoption, would make sense for a lot of industries, not only Apple. In this case you must only add Steve Jobs attitude and need to appear always posh: if he doesn't want it, it isn't cool. Obviously HE will decide if and when it will be ready, and although I'm not a big Apple fan (but I'm always at my ease within a few minutes when I have to use a mac), I have no problem with this, moreover I'm always quite amused by people getting mad at Jobs. 
