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The new Apple news has brought me to Apple's website again. But there's some rather old news about Apple that continues to amaze me.

Whoever came up with the name "Genius Bar" should be the next Poet Laureate of the United States. I only hope such inspiration never falls into the wrong hands.

Also, the Mac mini may have won me over. It occurs to me that I'm not doing entirely that much with my current PC. What's more, this could probably replace that old Pentium II that's choking on dust at my grandfather's house... though I'd also want to replace that fifteen-inch monitor of his too.

So, PC people... if cost weren't an issue, why would you keep your PC's? It's got World of Warcraft too.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

My impression is the same as iayork's: Apple is pitching this thing as a second or third computer, or an enticement to PC users who use their PCs for Web/email/digital photo/digital music/word processing tasks and are sick of Windows. It would be fine for all those things. Its capabilities are also perfectly sufficient for people who want to perform Unix geekery. It's definitely not a high-testosterone gamer's box, though Apple always makes some halfhearted stabs in that direction in their marketing.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I can agree with that. And the gamer boxen are far enough removed from the basic photo/music/web/email/wp system that the 32MB Radeon, while about 4-5 generations old for gamer machines, is still pretty far above what most users need on the video end. Aside from games, you'd need more than than for digital video (compressed video will be great if not superb) or any serious video editing. Cutting together a little footage for DVD burning (or, I guess, SVCD burning) might not be too miserable unless it's a big hobby.